Vivek Ramaswamy Crashes DNC & Gets Swarmed By Leftists Protesters Shouting, ‘Racist Go Home’
Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy made an appearance outside the Democratic National Convention on Thursday where he was met with stereotypically angry leftists.
The liberals told Vivek, who is of Indian descent, that he is a “racist” who wasn’t welcome at their pro-Palestine protest.
His presence caused a disturbance between the anti-American left and pro-America right.
???PROTESTER CLASHES WITH VIVEK AT DNC: YOU’RE NOT WELCOME HERE
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 22, 2024
PROTESTER:
“I’m asking you that you have no right to be here if you’re not in support of the Palestinian people.
If you’re not going to call for an end to the genocide, and an end to the killing, and if you’re… pic.twitter.com/pa1ciVuvzD
Protesters fight over if @VivekGRamaswamy is a racist or not after his arrival at March om DNC. @RealAlexJones @infowars @DewsNewz @HarrisonHSmith @realchasegeiser @OwenShroyer1776 @RundownLive #DNCConvention2024 #DNC2024CHICAGO #DNC2024 pic.twitter.com/OLOdj1Q56k
— Kristan T. Harris (@KristanTHarris) August 22, 2024
America First counter protesters clash with Free Palestine protesters on last day of March on the DNC at Union park. #DNCConvention2024 #DNC2024CHICAGO #DNC2024 @RealAlexJones @infowars @OwenShroyer1776 @HarrisonHSmith @DewsNewz @InfowarsJournal @RundownLive @realchasegeiser pic.twitter.com/P47EqrM6Z1
— Kristan T. Harris (@KristanTHarris) August 22, 2024
Indian-American politician Vivek Ramaswamy visited Union Park in Chicago and was surrounded by a mob of journalists, communists, and bodyguards.
— Edward Szall (@realEdwardSzall) August 22, 2024
Vivek kept his cool, and was seen smiling and carrying on conversations with protestors, even as insults were hurled from the crowd. pic.twitter.com/6GLAOz7KN8
??? Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy just showed up and said his favorite part of being in Chicago was people exercising their 1st amendment rights, even though he doesn’t agree with all of it.
A true patriot!!#DNC2024CHICAGO #DNCConvention2024 #Vivek pic.twitter.com/1fvLs3EWPg— The Xplorer Report (@Xplorer_Report) August 22, 2024
When he wasn’t hounded by rabid protesters, Ramaswamy showed he’s a man of the people by speaking to liberals with an open ear.
The Trump-supporting former presidential candidate even talked with a local communist who took part in the capitalist practice of selling Vivek a commie book.
NOW: Vivek Ramaswamy buys a communist news paper outside of the DNC From protesters. pic.twitter.com/3j9srw3fWU
— Oliya Scootercaster ? (@ScooterCasterNY) August 22, 2024
The “Biden Brand” Is Unconstitutional, Alleges House GOP Report
President Joe Biden committed “impeachable offenses” while in office, according to a hot-off-the-press report from the House GOP.
“President Biden’s legacy is marked by abuse of public office, corruption, and obstruction,” James Comer, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman, said in a press release. “The evidence produced by our impeachment inquiry is the strongest case for impeachment of a sitting president the House of Representatives has ever investigated.”
According to the report, Biden, his family, and associates engaged in “abuse of power, foreign entanglements, corruption, and obstruction of investigations into these matters,” including “influence peddling” that involved China and Russia. The report also alleged “funneling money through … third parties’ companies, using code names, and engaging in other obfuscatory tactics” to conceal wrongdoing.
Specific accusations against Biden that were highlighted in the report press release:
- Receiving nearly $30 million from foreign individuals and entities;
- Using the office of Vice President to ensure favorable business deals for Hunter Biden;
- Leveraging political power to obtain unrepaid loans, suspected of being gifts;
- Providing special treatment to Hunter Biden while he was under investigation, and misleading Congress about the investigation; and
- Withholding documents and witnesses from the Committee’s impeachment inquiry.
“None of this would have come to light had it not been for the two IRS whistleblowers who were tired of watching their investigation into the President’s son become obstructed,” said Jason Smith, R-MO, referencing an IRS employee and his supervisor who alleged irregularities in Hunter Biden’s investigation. “Their testimony in the face of political interference has stood up under scrutiny at every step.”
The report does not explicitly recommend impeachment, and no formal proceedings have been opened against the president. Instead, authors stated that fact-finding is “ongoing” and have encouraged the House of Representatives to evaluate “appropriate next steps.”
Many Democrats have interpreted the report’s open-ended conclusion as a sign that the GOP is abandoning its attempts to oust the sitting president. They pointed to a statement from Speaker Mike Johnson, who encouraged citizens to review the report but did not indicate a plan to take action.
“After wasting two years and millions of taxpayer dollars, House Republicans have finally given up on their wild goose chase,” said White House spokesperson Sharon Yang. “This failed stunt will only be remembered for how it became an embarrassment ….”
One anonymous GOP official agreed, rejecting the idea of a formal impeachment procedure.
“We don’t have the votes. We won’t have the votes. It’s math,” the GOP source told Politco. “The report is going to be the end of it.”
Even if the report does not result in impeachment proceedings, it’s a serious blow to the Democratic Party, especially as it comes right before Biden’s key speech at the DNC. It’s also a serious blow to public opinion and trust, one that casts a shadow over the upcoming election season and raises the stakes for many voters.
Such doubts, coupled with expectations of a rate cut and further destabilization of international politics, have resulted in a gold rush. Spot prices for the precious metal hit another all-time high well above the $2,500 benchmark and even crossed last week’s all-time high, propelling the value of an average-sized gold bar (400 troy oz) up to $1,000,000 apiece. Investors are hungry for more, with analysts forecasting a price rise above a brand-new $2,600 benchmark.
“The [upward] trend is going to accelerate,” Peter Schiff said in a podcast episode on the newly minted “Kamalanomics.” “If you don’t buy at $2500 because you’re waiting for $2400 … the next thing you know, we’re at $5,000 … Just buy it now … It’s a lot cheaper than buying it a lot higher.”
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The New Minimum Wage Increase in Nigeria is a Pyrrhic Victory for Organized Labor
While organized labor across Nigeria is currently jubilant over their recent win in obtaining a minimum wage increase by fiat, every student of praxeology in Nigeria receives this news with mixed feelings and the utmost reservation, because we are cognizant of the outcomes which inevitably follow from such interventions in the free market.
Earlier in May 2024, organized labor (in both public and private sector)—under the auspices of the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), after putting together some numbers they considered personal living expenses of the Nigerian worker—embarked on a series of nationwide strikes and public agitations in a bid to get a minimum wage increase from the previous N33,000 to N615,000. Mr. Joe Ajero, the President of the NLC, in his statement as quoted by the Premium Times, is seen making the threat that, “if, however, the negotiation of the minimum wage is not concluded by the end of May, the Trade Union movement in Nigeria will no longer guarantee industrial peace in the country.”
This, once more, provided evidence that use of threat and violence are inherent in labor unionism. Following these developments, a series of wage negotiations were initiated, with concessions made on both sides (i.e., the workers and the government). The Nigerian government finally acquiesced to the pressures exerted by the trades union, and organized labor was able to exit negotiations with an estimated 133% increase in minimum wage—to N70,000 per month.
That a higher wage is preferable to a lower wage is not disputed. What concerns the student of praxeology is the rigorous investigation of the means chosen to attain these higher wages. The praxeologist always asks whether the means adopted to attain desired ends—in this case, higher wages for Nigerian workers—bring about the attainment of those ends. At the same time, the student of praxeology also considers economics—the most elaborated subdivision of praxeology—a universally-valid science of human action, and therefore, the application of its theories not to be delimited by geography or historical context. As long as man must act to remove uneasiness, economic theory holds, always and everywhere, that there is human action, including Nigeria.
The purpose of this article is to show the predictions of Austrian economic theory concerning the necessary outcomes of minimum wage increases by violent intervention in general, as well its implications for the Nigerian workers.
An Austrian perspective on minimum wage increases by violent intervention
Austrian economic theory has always shown that violent intervention in the free market always produces outcomes which are judged unsatisfactory, even from the point of view of the initiators of these interventions. It asserts that intervention in the free market via minimum wage laws, or coercive actions of the trade union, would lead to the unemployment of a section of a country’s labor force who are willing to sell their labor (all other things being equal). Murray Rothbard in his classic Man, Economy, and State, writes,
Compulsory unemployment is achieved indirectly through minimum wage laws. On the free market, everyone’s wage tends to be set at his discounted marginal value productivity. A minimum wage law means that those whose DMVP is below the legal minimum are prevented from working. The worker was willing to take the job, and the employer to hire him. But the decree of the State prevents this hiring from taking place. (italics in original)
And Mises, in his book Interventionism, puts it that, “to deny that raising wages above the point prescribed by market conditions must necessarily lead to a reduction in the number of employed workers is tantamount to asserting that the size of the labor supply has no influence on wage rates.”
A historical investigation of the effects of minimum wage laws in any country inevitably reveals that minimum wage laws always result (all other things being equal) in unemployment of a section of the workers willing to sell their labor, thus further confirming the conclusions of economic theory on wage interventions.
That understood, we return to the objectives of the Nigerian government and the NLC in imposing a minimum wage increase by statutory law in order to see whether the chosen means—intervention—proves effective towards attaining that end. The objective of the Nigerian government and NLC is to increase the overall wage of the Nigerian worker, however, given their adoption of coercive intervention in attaining that end, the more unsatisfactory outcome of unemployment of a section of the country’s skilled labor force must follow. In addition to the unsatisfactory outcome of unemployment, the wages of unskilled labor will also decrease because of the entry of these unemployed masses of skilled workers into the unskilled labor market. From this, we can say that the current win by the NLC in obtaining a minimum wage increase by statutory law, rather than market methods, is only a pyrrhic victory.
How then could wages be increased for every Nigerian worker, without incurring some hidden, long-term consequences that would disrupt maximal satisfaction of most urgent wants of any group of Nigerian workers?
The solution is an increase in the per head accumulation of capital. Economics recognizes that increases in per head capital accumulation would lead to higher marginal productivity of labor. When labor has access to better tools and machines, its contribution to the marginal product increases. This is the only way to increase wages for every Nigerian worker without disrupting the free market and without making any section of the population worse off in the long run.
A return to the Misesian concept of “rightly understood” long-run interest, as expounded by Mises in his short book, The Clash of Group Interests, would work to the advantage of every Nigerian worker. The Nigerian worker ought to see that it is in his best long-run interest that mere short-run gains that compromise social cooperation are renounced. Mises succinctly summarizes this point,
The sacrifice that a man or a group makes in renouncing some short-run gains, lest they endanger the peaceful operation of the apparatus of social cooperation, is merely temporary. It amounts to an abandonment of a small immediate profit for the sake of incomparably greater advantages in the long run.
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What Is Really Going on at Federal Agencies?
Years ago as an intern in D.C., and long before the agencies all locked their doors to visitors, I had the occasion to putter around the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
These were obviously not normal workplaces. To my amazement, they were mostly dark, empty, and quiet, and the employees did not seem in the slightest bit busy doing anything at all. It was all kind of spooky.
It then occurred to me that these many hundreds of agencies and millions of employees are not really covered well by the media much at all and certainly not in any detail. They mostly operate without any oversight but for the periodic reporting done for Congress and the sporadic accounting reports from the Government Accounting Office that are mostly ignored.
It’s rather strange, isn’t it? The business pages are packed with details on the hirings and operations of every publicly traded company. We know sales, products, locations, and management structures and changes. But as regards these agencies that are supposed to be responsible to the people, there is a strange lack of curiosity about what they really do and how they do it.
There is at least one organization that takes a deeper look. It is called OpentheBooks, and started with an idealistic idea of telling people what the operations of these agencies are really like. They aren’t trying to unearth classified information or otherwise do whistleblowing. They focus on the mundane accounting and goings-on at normal civilian agencies.
What they found would never be tolerated at any private company.
- The average pay in 109 of 125 federal agencies was more than $100,000 per employee and after just three years federal employees received 44 days – 8.8 full work weeks of paid time off.
- In a report to Congress, the Biden Administration redacted (hid) 350,000 names and 280,000 work locations from the payrolls. And these employees aren’t spies or intelligence officers – they are rank-and-file workers within the alphabet soup of traditional federal agencies like Education, Health and Health Services, EPA, or IRS. As a result, the organization couldn’t tell “who” was working, “where” they were located, and “what” they were doing!
At the Department of Commerce, the Inspector General found 23% of employees sampled were overpaid.
- Employees took nearly a year in some instances to update their duty station, which dictates their locality pay. The Department couldn’t verify whether employees were showing up to the office as required.
- The Commerce Department has 47,000 employees. The Inspector General sampled only 31 employees and seven of those were overpaid by a combined $43,000!
You are not surprised, right? And you probably assume that this is just the tip of the iceberg also. Indeed, one supposes so. I’m looking at the Federal Register. It lists 429 agencies in the government now, with only a tiny number mentioned in the US Constitution. The rest have been legislated into existence by Congress, going far beyond anything the Founders ever imagined.
Thanks to nearly a century and a half of gradual accumulation, these agencies have a permanent life. The employees cannot be fired except for egregious actions. And the elected president has no control over them. The president can appoint agency heads but then the battle becomes hundreds vs millions, and the hundreds of appointees are new at their jobs and easily driven out with a hint of financial impropriety, real or made up. The permanent class of middle-state bureaucrats with all the institutional knowledge know precisely where the power resides. It is with them.
This system of administrative hegemony has not been seriously tested in court. It is likely contrary to everything the Constitution ever imagined. True, Congress created these agencies but they exist within the executive branch. Congress cannot simply outsource its job to another branch and then wash its hands of the result. That practice makes a mess out of the original Constitutional structure.
Leaving those fundamental issues aside, what’s striking is how little oversight of these agencies really takes place. Very little reporting is done on them at all apart from perfunctory reprinting of agency press releases by major media. The reason is that many reporters rely on the permanent government for information sources and protection after the fact. There is a hand-in-glove relationship going on here and it’s been building for many decades, even dating back to the Great War.
Every once in a while, we get a glimpse of the reality on the ground. The work of OpentheBooks makes life briefly hard for agencies that never like to be in the news but very little if anything is ever done about the problem.
There has been some much-welcome talk lately of untangling the cozy relationships between these hundreds of agencies and the industries they oversee. That’s good. We really should not be building a corporatist system that runs contrary to the ideal of free enterprise. But the idea of ending agency capture is also not a permanent solution to the problem.
We must think more fundamentally. With an ideal president and legislature, we would pursue something like what is going on in Argentina today. Whole agencies need to be deleted entirely from the federal budget. And then let the chips fall where they may. So long as I can remember, every Republican president has promised to get rid of the Department of Education. Great. But why does it never happen? I would like to know the answer. Plus, that is only a starter: there are hundreds of such agencies that should be on the list.
The real solution is a complete rethinking of government itself. Every single candidate should be asked to explain their answer to a basic question: what in your view is the role of government? Whatever the answer is, all existing practices of government need to be assessed in light of that. Also, voters should evaluate their answers with an even more fundamental question: what kind of society do we want to live in, a free or centrally managed one? That’s the core question.
The goings-on at the Department of Commerce provide a slight glimpse but the real scale of the problem is far more vast. I have no doubt that if a serious think tank really looked at the details, provided fully and transparently, we would be astonished at what we find. As some news organization has been saying for a while, democracy dies in darkness. Let’s shine the light of truth on the vast complex of civilian agencies that purport to manage our lives better than we can ourselves.
Final note: this column is dedicated to Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpentheBooks, who has died at the age of 55. He was a good friend to Brownstone and to transparency in government. He ran a different kind of nonprofit, not a puffy do-nothing bureaucracy but a production-driven research institute doing what desperately needs to be done. May he rest in peace and may his legacy inspire many more such visionaries.
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Trump Says He’s Rejecting Intelligence Briefings to Avoid Deep State Sabotage
Former President Donald Trump says he’s refused intel briefings customarily offered to presidential nominees, remarking that opting out of them could prevent potential meddling by the Deep State.
Asked by a Daily Mail reporter whether he’s receiving intelligence briefings “traditionally” offered to nominees, Trump responded he’s refusing them.
Trump says he’s rejecting intelligence briefings to avoid deep state sabotage
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) August 22, 2024
Very based and a signal that he’s learned a lot since his first term pic.twitter.com/5Un3rmsgIY
“Well, I could have if I wanted them,” Trump told a Daily Mail reporter in Asheboro, North Carolina, Thursday.
“I don’t want them, because, number one, I know what’s happening. It’s very easy to see what’s happening,” he said, proceeding to criticize the Biden-Harris administration.
“I don’t want that, because as soon as I get that, they’ll say that I leaked it,” he continued. “So the best way to handle that situation is, I don’t need that briefing.”
“They come in, they give you a briefing, and then two days later they leak it, and then they say you leaked it.”
“So the only way to solve that problem is not to take it. I don’t want it,” he said.
Trump’s refusal of intel briefings comes as he’s currently being prosecuted by Special Counsel Jack Smith on federal charges he mishandled classified documents.
The move shows Trump has picked up on a few Deep State tactics during his first term and is determined to keep his new administration free from their influence.
Don Lemon Says Taylor Swift, Beyonce & George W. Bush DNC Surprise Appearances ‘Could Happen’
With rumors swirling online about who the surprise guest will be at Thursday’s Democratic National Convention, former CNN host Don Lemon revealed his sources say musicians Taylor Swift and Beyonce as well as ex-President George W. Bush could all make an appearance.
Special Guests at the DNC? It could happen…. pic.twitter.com/1tKCHhpD2W
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) August 22, 2024
The internet is widely speculating on who the secret guest or guests could be, with one conservative joking Satan would be a fitting Democrat speaker.
???️BREAKING: The special guest speaker tonight at the DNC has been revealed to be none other than the dark lord Satan himself. He is reported to be speaking in support of the Harris Walz ticket, surgicaIIy transitioning minors as early as possible, and free heroin for all. pic.twitter.com/mtc58aV2xZ
— ??. ??? ?????, ?? ?️?️ (@Vox_Oculi) August 22, 2024
Regardless of who they roll out, it’s clear the lame Democrat ticket has to get some help from their high-profile friends in order to generate any real excitement for their movement.