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Nolte: Pompous Scott Pelley, Astronaut Gayle King Reportedly on CBS Chopping Block
2025-05-29
[Breitbart] 60 Minutes’ chief pompous ass Scott Pelley, and CBS Mornings host Gayle King (who identifies as an astronaut), are reportedly on the CBS News chopping block, per a Daily Mail exclusive.
That'd certainly warm the cockles of my cold, black heart.

I'm filing this under Opinion because Nolte calls Scott Pelley a pompous ass. Although I agree with that opinion, it is opinion and should be labeled as such just like the — tee hee —. Then there's the word schlonging, which is certainly inappropriate for a straight news article even though I think it is appropriate treatment of these so-called journalists.
According to the report, far-left CBS News is in crisis — tee hee — "with staffers crying in the hallways, fighting over story coverage and seating, and scrambling to update their resumes amid fears of mass layoffs."

According to the insiders who spoke with the Daily Mail, "morale has plummeted across the network, from the flagship Sunday news show 60 Minutes to CBS Mornings," all of it due to two things: 1) CBS parent company Paramount Global’s impending merger with Skydance Media and President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS News for interfering in the 2020 presidential election.

Currently, the Trump suit is in arbitration and all indications are that Skydance does not want to inherit that mess, so it needs to be resolved before the merger is official.

Then there’s the reported $500 million Paramount is looking to cut "in preparation for the lucrative merger with Skydance Media against the backdrop of a ratings freefall" and the ongoing, high-level personnel shake ups.

Fallout from the merger and the Trump suit has already hit hard. No less than Wendy McMahon, the president of CBS News, and Bill Owens, the executive editor of the disgraced 60 Minutes, have already resigned.

So...

Where to cut? Where to cut?

Well, according to the report, Gayle King has become $10 million in damaged goods. Not only is she hosting the forever-in-last-place CBS Mornings, her grotesquely elitist Space Origin flight, combined with her claims that those few minutes in space mean she’s now an astronaut, have scalded her reputation.

"People don’t want to say it out loud in the office but the entire space debacle really hurt us," one 60 Minutes staffer told the Daily Mail. "Gayle being part of that is not a good look for our brand. I think a lot of people resent Gayle for that. I know I do."

King’s $10 million per-year contract is up in September.

"Multiple sources told the Daily Mail that 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley could also be on the way out."

Pelley, of course, is infamous for his self-regard, unbridled bias, and dishonesty.

"We’re in the middle of a bloodbath," a 60 Minutes staffer told the Daily Mail. "The axe is falling, people are leaving, no one knows what to do next. We’re all updating our resumes because it really feels like this is a sinking ship."

Some call it a long overdue reckoning for a corrupt regime media that, at long last, has lost its influence over public opinion.

I prefer to call it The Schlonging:

  1. Ruth Marcus — Washington Post columnist resigns.
  2. 538 — Disney/ABC’s wildly biased polling site shutters.
  3. Paul Krugman — Always wrong New York Times columnist forced out.
  4. Jim Acosta — CNN anchor forced out.
  5. Norah O’Donnell — Failed CBS anchor out.
  6. Chuck Todd — NBC’s former Meet the Press host DEI’d out.
  7. Andrea Mitchell — NBC harridan ages out of job.
  8. Chris Wallace — Son of Someone out at CNN.
  9. Joy Reid — Racist MSNBC anchor too racist for MSNBC. Fired.
  10. Neil Cavuto — Fox News anchor scurries away.
  11. Alex Wagner — Demoted at MSNBC.
  12. Mohyeldin — Lost MSNBC show.
    Apparently he is Ayman Mohyeldin, the Cairo-born Egyptian (dad)-Palestinian (mom) former Al Jazeera reporter who was one of the first Western reporters allowed in Iraq after Saddam Hussein was captured. He also covered the 2008-9 Gaza war and the Arab Spring, and claims it was in his interview that Moammar Ghadaffy announced he was giving up Libya’s WMD program. His Master’s thesis was titled, “The News Media Paradigm in the War on Terrorism,” which sounds awfully grand.
  13. Olivia Nuzzi — Out at New York Mag for allegedly stalking RFK Jr.
  14. Katie Phang — Lost MSNBC show.
  15. Jonathan Capehart — Lost MSNBC show. Steps down from Washington Post editorial board.
  16. Lester Holt — Out as NBC Nightly News anchor.
  17. One-third of New York Times Editorial Board — Say, bye.
  18. Eugene Robinson — Washington Post columnist quits in snit.
  19. Ryan Lizza — Scurries to Substack over credible misconduct allegations.
  20. Bill Owens — 60 Minutes chief resigns in crybaby disgrace.
  21. Wendy McMahon — CBS News president resigns after less than two years.

Trump’s triumphant reelection proved the corporate media are nothing more than an elite salon where everyone talks to each other because Normal People have stopped listening to their lies and hoaxes. The corporate media are over, and the fallout has just begun.

Tee.

Hee.
Related:
60 Minutes 05/20/2025 CBS News CEO unexpectedly steps down: ‘It's become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward'
60 Minutes 05/06/2025 ISIS suspect arrested in New Orleans Bourbon Street terror attack that killed 14
60 Minutes 04/23/2025 ''60 Minutes'' producer Bill Owens quits under pressure from Trump's CBS lawsuit

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Science & Technology
The West is moving from cultural wars to religious ones
2023-08-12
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Dmitry Kosyrev

[RIA] Among the Nobel laureates there are extremely smart people. Right now, the American Paul Krugman (Economics Prize, 2008),
...generally completely wrong, but never unsure...
in one simple phrase, put in the headline of a comment in The New York Times , explained to us what we had seen so long ago, but for some reason we could not clearly and simply formulate. Namely: "The climate has become the subject of a culture war." Let's add - global.

He could even say "wars of religion". Culture and religion are closely intertwined, and the high emotions they evoke are based not on facts, but on feelings. Feelings are a complex and herd thing. This is an area where disputes will always go on as long as humanity is alive, but wars ... Wars - cultural and religious - begin when one group of people considers it necessary to impose their beliefs on other groups by force. And this, of course, is always a misfortune and a crime.

Krugman himself leaves no doubt as to which side he is on in this war.
There’s that generally wrong thing, again.
He repeats the entire set of the obligatory propagandist of the idea that human activity heats up the atmosphere of the planet, and in order to avoid this terrible crisis, it is necessary to force humanity to live not as they want, but as smart people tell them to. That is, stop using oil and gas, eat meat, and so on down the list.

And in the end, the laureate designates the main "creed" of the team: there is a science that has said its word about the climate once and for all, and there are illiterate deniers of science who simply hate it. They have such a culture. The point is not that they are paid (oil and gas and other companies that produce something), but simply the Republicans are not liberals. If they come to power, they will curtail the entire climate program of the current administration. And this is at a time when it is so hot outside: the hottest and most humid summer on record!

The rest are details, but valuable. And not from Krugman, but from those very bad people. In fact, they just honor real science and hate corrupt science, used in the form of a cudgel. And here's the answer to the question of why it's so hot. Last January, the Tonga Khanga volcano in the South Pacific erupted with a unique force, and it happened deep under water. Do not believe me - ask the American space agency NASA and its European colleagues (with photographs and other things). The volcano through the water filter of the ocean threw unprecedented volumes of steam into the water and atmosphere. And this whole thing will not calm down soon. There are calculations and estimates by climatologists.

But this does not stop the US administration and other forces promoting and imposing on people new technologies and goods that no one would take for free without the climate horror story. Along the way, people are made poor and modest, at the same time they are trying to crush the rapid growth of the economies of the non-Western world by imposing on it that very false climate agenda. What happens to unfortunate Germany and other Europe bent like a ram's horn because of this is well known. And in the United States itself, there are many more interesting things.

Republicans and other people of a "different culture" created the "Project 2025", which, according to Krugman, if they come to power, will block all climate ideas of the Democrats. And they still wouldn't do it. Here is just one of the ratings.scientists from this project - about the initiative of the Biden team to force the auto industry to produce at least 70 percent of its cars by 2032 electric. What will happen then? First, automakers will go bankrupt because these cars are more expensive and people don't want to buy them. Second, motorists will drive conventional petrol and diesel cars for longer, which will lead to wear and tear of equipment and accidents with a bad outcome. And third, even if the Bidenites fully fulfill all their plans, this will lead - perhaps - to a decrease in temperature on our beloved planet by 0.2 degrees Celsius. And only by 2100.

And also about cultural, if not religious climate wars. When you have a normal discussion, confident in your rightness and victory, you do it with respect to your opponent. But climate (and not only climate) activists now consider it their duty to be aggressive and terrorize people to the maximum, notes a publicist from American Thinker. They block traffic, disrupt festivals and sporting events, break into theaters. Well, of course - in war as in war.

How the non-Western, that is, relatively normal world, reacts to all this is a separate conversation. The scheme here is as follows: Westerners impose their climate agenda on all conceivable international forums and receive a polite (so far) rebuff. For example, in the course of preparations for the next G20 summit in India , the "agenda " was blocked by Beijing (and not it alone). But the main events on this international climate front are yet to come.
Related:
Paul Krugman: 2023-03-22 Greenfield: 1% of Democrat Counties Make Up 42% of America’s Murders
Paul Krugman: 2023-02-04 The Fed Can Stop Choking the Economy Now
Paul Krugman: 2020-04-19 The world begins to "social distance" itself from China in the wake of the pandemic
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-War on Police-
Greenfield: 1% of Democrat Counties Make Up 42% of America’s Murders
2023-03-22
by Daniel Greenfield

[FrontPage] Democrats desperately trying to spin high crime rates caused by their pro-crime policies began falsely claiming that crime was a Republican problem. The media began running articles with headlines like, “Red States Have Higher Murder Rates” and “Republicans Like to Talk Tough on Crime — But They’re the Ones with a Real Crime Problem”.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who once claimed that the internet would have no more of an impact than the fax machine, argued that high crime was really a Republican problem and decided to prove it by claiming that, “Oklahoma’s murder rate was almost 50 percent higher than California’s, almost double New York’s.”
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Economy
The Fed Can Stop Choking the Economy Now
2023-02-04
[Intelligencer] The Federal Reserve has now raised its benchmark interest rate from near zero to above 4.5 percent in the space of a year. That represents the most rapid spree of monetary tightening in U.S. history. It is past time for the central bank to take a breather.

In recent weeks, a growing array of evidence has indicated that inflation is firmly on a downward path. At this point, the imperative to avert an unnecessary recession must take precedence over minimizing inflationary risk.

My argument for that assessment has two parts. The first is a matter of data, the second of values.

The consumer price index (CPI) declined by 0.1 percent between November and December. On a year-over-year basis, inflation remained at the elevated perch of 6.5 percent. But as Paul Krugman argues, for discerning the future path of inflation, it may be better to look at the rate of price growth over a six-month period. That interval eliminates the "noise" (i.e., semi-random variations) that can influence month-to-month changes while still cleaving relatively current trends from outdated ones. And if you take the trend of price growth over the past six months, then annualize it, inflation appears to already be on its way back to the Fed’s 2 percent target.
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China-Japan-Koreas
The world begins to "social distance" itself from China in the wake of the pandemic
2020-04-19
Legal Insurrection via Instapundit
As nations around the world struggle to deal with outbreaks of the Wuhan coronavirus, China is now experiencing the first phase of what could be considered social distancing on an international scale.

To begin with, it is being reported that China suffered its worst economic contraction since the 1970s, with a serious hit to its factory activity.
    The world’s second-largest economy shrank 6.8% from a year ago in the three months ending in March after factories, shops and travel were closed to contain the infection, official data showed Friday.

    That was stronger than some forecasts that called for a contraction of up to 16% but China’s worst performance since before market-style economic reforms started in 1979.

    Some forecasters earlier said China, which led the way into a global shutdown to fight the virus, might rebound as early as this month. But they have been cutting growth forecasts and pushing back recovery timelines as negative trade, retail sales and other data pile up.

    "I don’t think we will see a real recovery until the fourth quarter or the end of the year," said economist Zhu Zhenxin at the Rushi Finance Institute in Beijing.


There are now signs that China’s lack of transparency and its failure to contain the spread of the virus internationally is slowing down its economic recovery. It is now apparent that European governments are hardening their positions toward China as they weigh future business activity with the nation.
    French President Emmanuel Macron accused Beijing of not being upfront over its handling of the epidemic, while in the U.K., Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to involve Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co. in the nation’s next-generation mobile network may fall prey to mounting opposition.

    The European Union’s position on China has been relatively measured, but leaders are beginning to call for a more thorough examination of its activities amid accusations Beijing has covered up the true scale of the epidemic. American intelligence officials are said to have concluded that China concealed the extent of its outbreak and under-reported the number of cases and deaths.

    "Let’s not be so naive as to say it’s been much better at handling this," Macron told the Financial Times in an interview published Thursday, referring to China. "We don’t know — there are clearly things that have happened that we don’t know about."


When you’ve lost Macron . . . .

As global leaders weigh the actions taken by the Chinese Communist Party in the wake of the pandemic, little things like bad test kits and underwear-based masks add up. So it is not surprising that some countries are reassessing their plans to be part of China’s 5G global empire.

    The UK is moving to drop Huawei as a vendor for the country’s 5G cellphone network in a major blow to Communist China over poor coronavirus transparency.

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson, now recovering from COVID-19, gave the Chinese company a role in 5G infrastructure this year, squashing opposition last month by 24 votes in the 650-seat House of Commons.

    But now, concern about the Chinese Communist Party’s inaccurate reporting on the coronavirus has lawmakers crafting plans for a retreat.

    "We need to devise a proper, realistic exit strategy from relying on Huawei," Conservative Member of Parliament Damian Green told Bloomberg News. "Our telecom providers ... need to know the government is determined to drive down Huawei’s involvement to zero percent over a realistic timescale."


China’s recent, brutal treatment of African nationals living there has raised alarm bells on that continent.

    ...[The] that decades long quest for influence in Africa was gravely challenged last week when a group of disgruntled African ambassadors in Beijing wrote to Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi to complain that citizens from Togo, Nigeria and Benin living in Guangzhou, southern China, were evicted from their homes and made to undergo obligatory testing for Covid-19.

    "In some cases, the men were pulled out of their families and quarantined in hotels alone," the note, seen by POLITICO, said.

    The incident, which caused widespread discontent both within Africa and among the diaspora after videos posted on social media showed people of African descent being evicted from their homes, resulting in a rare diplomatic showdown between Chinese and African officials.


Finally, Asian nations that are heavily influenced by China are being more open about some important negative aspects about the relationship.

    Vietnamese officials say China is intentionally mislabeling its products as "made in Vietnam" to avoid American tariffs, and have ordered offices to more aggressively examine products’ certificates of origin.

    Chinese firms first export products to Vietnam, then change the labeling on packages before exporting the goods to the United States, Japan or Europe, they said.

    "Dozens" of products have been identified, Hoang Thi Thuy, a Vietnamese Customs Department official, told state-run media, and goods like textiles, fishery products, agricultural products, steel, aluminum, and processed wooden products were most vulnerable to the fraud.


Looking at the trends, and to paraphrase economist Paul Krugman: If the question is when China will recover, a first-pass answer is never.

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Home Front: Culture Wars
Paul Krugman rides again
2020-03-30
[Red State] - At a time of pandemic, with a lot of things feeling kind of up in the air and not really knowing how things might shake out, it’s good to know that there are certain principles of life that we can always fall back on.

One of the most basic is that Paul Krugman is always wrong.

So when he says worry, take cheer, dear readers, because that means recovery must be on the horizon.

Here he is being wrong, once again, claiming our response is the worst in the world, because Orange Man Bad.

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Economy
Globalists' Predictions of Economic Disaster After Trump's Election and Brexit Were Bravo Sierra
2020-01-27
[Red State] - In 2016, all the experts predicted economic disaster if candidate Donald Trump was elected president.

...Then there was Nobel laureate Paul Krugman’s prediction of "economic doom" in an opinion piece the day after the election.

...Of course, none of these people have acknowledged that they were wrong. To the contrary, they have been naysaying US economic growth for three years now and predicting a recession at every turn, but the state of the US economy is such that they have effectively been at least silenced if not shamed. President Trump’s economic accomplishments are unparalleled:

...The experts predicted economic doom after passed their first Brexit referendum in 2016, too.

...PWC’s global CEO survey found that European chief executives regard Britain as a key market for growth and investment.

...More than a thousand banks, asset managers, payments companies and insurers in the European Union plan to open offices in post-Brexit Britain so they can continue serving UK clients, regulatory consultancy Bovill said.

"These figures clearly show that many firms see the UK as Europe’s premier financial services hub," said Michael Johnson, a consultant at Bovill.

...Funny how unshackling economies from excessive regulations leads to economic growth, isn’t it? Getting out from under Brussels will be a boon to the Brits just as getting out from under Obama-era regulations worked wonders for the US economy. Capitalism works every time it is tried. It would appear that the "experts" are all Keynesian economists. It seems to me that they need to get right with the Austrian school of economics.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Paul Krugman Alert: You knew he was a nut. But a pedo as well?
2020-01-09
[FoxNews] New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is appearing to be having technical difficulties as he acknowledged Wednesday on Twitter that his IP address had been "compromised" and used to "download child pornography."

"Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography," Krugman wrote in a now-deleted tweet. "I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It’s an ugly world out there."

Qanon is a reference to the group of conspiracy theorists who in recent years spread incriminating myths against many high-profile Democrats on social media.

Hours later, Krugman deleted the tweet, saying that the Times was "now on the case" that it could have been a "scam."

"Deleted original tweet. Times thinks it may have been a scam. Anyway, will have more security in future," Krugman wrote.
And courtesy of Herb McCoy, a twitter thread on the subject:
The only logical reason I can think of why Paul Krugman would advertise, apropos of nothing, that child pornography is "being downloaded" to his computer (and totally NOT by him) is because he got tipped that he's about to be in deep shit.
Related:
Paul Krugman: 2019-07-24 The left smears a senator for calling out elite ideology
Paul Krugman: 2019-07-04 President Trump hits huge home run nominating Judy Shelton for the Fed
Paul Krugman: 2019-03-19 Alan Krueger, Democratic labor economist, dies at 58
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Home Front: Politix
The left smears a senator for calling out elite ideology
2019-07-24
[NYPOST] Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley used a perfectly good word in its appropriate context ‐ and now he stands accused of dog-whistle bigotry.

At the National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC, last week, Hawley gave a keynote address that attacked the coastal elite for being out of touch and out of sympathy with the heartland. He called it "the cosmopolitan elite," described its beliefs as the "cosmopolitan consensus" and ­accused it of building a "cosmopolitan economy."

Even though there’s not a ­remotely plausible argument that Hawley was in any way targeting Jews, his use of the "c"-word alone was enough for critics to say he was making an anti-Semitic ­appeal.

"If you’re Jewish and the use of ’cosmopolitan’ doesn’t scare you, read some history," warned New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 op-ed writer Paul Krugman. A columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch opined, darkly, that Hawley "chose the word purposefully" (he had, just not in a sinister way). James Fallows of The Atlantic agreed that Hawley knew "exactly the implications of cosmopolitan."

There’s no doubt that the word has been abused for hideous ends. In 1946, Joseph Stalin gave a speech heralding the repression of Jews in the arts and literature that lamented, "The positive Soviet hero is derided and inferior before all things foreign, and cosmopolitanism that we all fought against from the time of Lenin, characteristic of the political leftovers, is many times applauded."

Yet, the connection between Hawley, the over-achieving 39-year-old former Supreme Court law clerk and attorney general of the state of Missouri, and the cruel, power-hungry Marxist-Leninist dictator who is one of history’s great monsters . . . is not obvious.

The word has also been used to target Jews by other anti-Semitic lowlifes and haters, although it’s a smear to mention Hawley, who gladly and forthrightly denounces anti-Semitism, in the same breath as these cretins.

Why resort to the word at all? The axis of the culture war in this country has shifted to national identity, immigration policy and citizenship and requires a new vocabulary. The welcome effort to rehabilitate the word "nationalism," one goal of the National Conservatism conference, is part of this re-orientation. But there also has to be a term for what the nationalists ­oppose, since Big Government and social liberalism aren’t apt.

Cosmopolitanism is the natural choice. Per the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the word "has been used to describe a wide variety of important views in moral and socio-political philosophy. The nebulous core shared by all cosmopolitan views is the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be) citizens in a single community."

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Home Front: Politix
President Trump hits huge home run nominating Judy Shelton for the Fed
2019-07-04
[American Thinker] President Trump has chosen a huge winner for the Federal Reserve Board: economist and monetary expert Judy Shelton.

Start with her achievements: same as our friend Herbert Meyer, she forecast with near-date accuracy the economic collapse of the Soviet Union based on economic reading alone. It was a bold prediction, made two years before it actually happened, in 1987. She was criticized for it, but she knew she was right and doubled down. In 1990, she wrote a book called The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev's Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets." The book drew naysaying, too. They called her an extremist...except that she was right.

She also warned about the currency meltdowns in emerging markets that occurred through the 1990s. Her 1998 book Money Meltdown is a classic of the genre, explaining how these disruptive events occur and can occur ‐ coming out right when Mexico, Asia, and Russia were going down. Someone with this kind of forecasting firepower alone is worth paying attention to. She's exactly the kind of person you want at a place like the Fed.

So naturally, she's already being subject to all kinds of criticism from the conventional-wisdomers and swamp aficionados ‐ same people who told her she was nuts for forecasting the Soviet meltdown. They criticized her then and got left with egg on their faces, so off they go, criticizing her nomination again now. Not even the real leftists, such as Paul Krugman or maybe Joe Stiglitz have weighed in yet, but they will. The current ones holler at Shelton for pointing out the value of a stable money standard, such as gold, something she has stuck to her guns about ‐ defying even Milton Friedman.
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-Obits-
Alan Krueger, Democratic labor economist, dies at 58
2019-03-19
[Politico] Alan Krueger, a celebrated labor economist whose research influenced Democratic policy on the minimum wage, died this past weekend at 58.

The cause of death was suicide, according to a statement from Krueger’s family released by Princeton University, where Krueger held a chair in political economy.

Krueger was chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under Obama and chief economist at the Labor Department under President Bill Clinton. A leading scholar on jobs, wages, and income distribution, Krueger joined the Princeton faculty in 1987.

"He saw economic policy not as a matter of abstract theories, but as a way to make people’s lives better," former President Barack Obama said in a written statement. "Through it all, he had a perpetual smile and a gentle spirit‐even when he was correcting you."

"A wonderful person, a very great economist," tweeted the Nobel prizewinning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, "who transformed our understanding of labor markets, and one of our finest public servants."
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Home Front: Politix
Nancy Pelosi: There Will Be ‘Collateral Damage' to Those Who Disagree with Us
2018-10-21
[Breitbart] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told a gathering at the 92nd Street Y in New York on Sunday that there may have to be "collateral damage" to those Americans who do not agree with the Democratic Party agenda.

Pelosi was being interviewed onstage by Paul Krugman, the left-wing New York Times columnist and Nobel economic laureate who predicted, the day Donald Trump won the presidency, that Trump would trigger "a global recession, with no end in sight."

In a long, rambling monologue, during which she stumbled on her words and appeared to lose her train of thought, Pelosi said:
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