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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Could This Be Why the Secret Service Ended Its Investigation into Cocainegate?
Key bits:
[Townhall] Last night, Fox News host Jessie Watters, like the rest of the nation, couldn’t stomach the United States Secret Service’s conclusion that it couldn’t figure out who brought cocaine into the White House. The law enforcement agency has the names of 500 individuals in or around the vestibule where the drugs were discovered, but supposedly no video evidence that can zero in on a person of interest. Due to the lack of a solid suspect, the agency is closing its investigation.
How does one end what has never begun ?
It’s not believable. The world’s best security service and the high-tech systems at the White House couldn’t identify a suspect. Maybe agents should drug test the 500 potential suspects at this point. It sure looks like a cover-up is happening before our eyes, and it doesn’t help to diffuse those insinuations when the head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, used to be on Biden’s security detail as vice president...

In the meantime, all files relating to this sham investigation will remain under seal, with the agency confident that the public will accept its half-a**ed probe into the matter. I don’t think so.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If they've closed the investigation, they shouldn't be able to refuse to answer questions because "it's an ongoing investigation", right?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/15/2023 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  A usual, holding back critical points about an event until the media attention span is exhausted allows for the creation of confusion about the actual truth. This was a drug drop off, using controlled locker and key, undoubtedly for someone in residence at the White House. The key to locker 50 will never be found but my guess is that it is/was in Hunter's possession. Only an addict in residence would craft such a scheme with the attendant risks associated with its compromise, but an arrogant one would do it as yet another display of invulnerability to the rules that govern the rest of us. Sound familiar?



American Thinker article this morning



July 14, 2023

Secret Service sacrificing its reputation to protect drug offender in the White House
By Thomas Lifson

"Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., told Fox News Digital that, during the briefing, she inquired about specific security measures in place for the lockers where the cocaine was found. Boebert said the Secret Service admitted that the key to the locker in question "is missing." "There are 182 lockers in that foyer and currently... locker number 50 where the cocaine was found, that key is missing," Boebert said. "There were more than 500 people who went through the West Wing during the weekend of when this substance was found, when the cocaine was found in the White House, and none of those people who have come through are classified as suspects."

"We do not know how many were tourists, individual citizens, or staffers, and they currently are not looking any further into those more than 500 people who entered that foyer of the West Wing during that weekend," she said. "Instead, they are quickly wanting to close this investigation and move on to the next Biden crime crisis." "

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/15/2023 1:22 Comments || Top||

#3  No need to further discover what has already been discovered.

Breitbart - Officials at the White House know who brought cocaine into the White House and have confirmed that finding via fingerprint analysis, according to a report which contradicts a statement released by the Secret Service.

A security source told Soldier of Fortune magazine, “We know who handled it… We’ve known since last week.”

According to the report — which Breitbart News has not independently verified — two sources disclosed the name of the person who is believed to have handled the cocaine, but the magazine is withholding the name pending official confirmation.

The report alleged that the second test by the FBI “brought back a hit on fingerprints.”
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2023 3:51 Comments || Top||



#6  If I were leading an effort that sought to discredit the Biden White House regarding the coke, I would attack these vulnerabilities regarding the incident:
1. Have a group like Judicial Watch flood the zone with FIOA requests to the WH Press Secretary and her staff for emails and internal communication regarding the location that the cocaine was found.
2. I would encourage OMG to target Eisenhower Executive Office Staffers to see what they are talking about when they are hammered in DuPont Circle. Why should we know less than the CCP about our government?
3. I would have a company like Rasmussen conduct some polling about whether Americans believe that there is a coverup concerning the cocaine and confront KJP about the result.
4. I would call the head of WH security in front of Congress for a grilling concerning the practice of allowing unvetted, unsearched, cokehead contractors free access to the WH in which it would be established that that’s not what happened.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 7:36 Comments || Top||

#7  I wonder if the "coke dealer to the White House" is actually a direct connection to one of the cartels.

Such a person could use money / threats to quiet a lot of people.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2023 7:42 Comments || Top||

#8  The key to locker 50 is missing. Ok, who was issued that key?
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 07/15/2023 7:44 Comments || Top||

#9  I don’t accept the premise that it was in a locker. Sunlight ought to be applied to the Press Secretary. Executive privilege does not apply unless she was providing counsel to the president. Some WH fixer is not president for Constitutional purposes.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 9:01 Comments || Top||


#11  This "investigation" brought to light that 2 other times drugs were found in the Biden White House. They were marijuana but these 2 were kept secret but somehow came to light after the cocaine was found. What else is being kept secret?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/15/2023 12:08 Comments || Top||

#12  Tell 'em all they have to pee into a bottle or lose their jobs. But I don't suppose that'd worry a guy like Hunter who has no job to lose...other than bag man for his daddy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2023 13:05 Comments || Top||

#13  If we assume the worst then we're probably about right for the Biden White House. My assumption would be that all or most of the people who work there are high on drugs most of the time and it will be covered up. I assume that if Biden White House employees were not sociopaths they would not be Biden White House employees. And yes, Murcek, a direct connection to one or more of the Mexican drug cartels should be assumed, the money going through one or more of Hunter's offshore accounts. They don't leave that border wide open for nothing. I would also assume that any cocaine found in the White House is the good stuff.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2023 13:18 Comments || Top||

#14  Oh, the irony. Joe "tough on crime and cocaine" Biden and this fiasco. Thanks to him, this gives a new meaning to White House.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/15/2023 13:55 Comments || Top||

#15  this gives a new meaning to White House.

La Casa del Snorto en Español
Posted by: SteveS || 07/15/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||

#16  The same people who wanted a special prosecutor when Dubya "choked on a pretzel" are supremely uncurious about this whole thing.

Whuttasurprise!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2023 14:15 Comments || Top||

#17  Send all 500+ people a message that drug testing will be Monday. Note who calls in sick or is a no show.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/15/2023 17:51 Comments || Top||

#18  Hair tests: persists
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2023 18:20 Comments || Top||

#19  They are in the dark on this but know exactly where everyone was on J6.

Riiiiight...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2023 18:47 Comments || Top||

#20  Got a kick out of an article today about how, if that cocaine had been found in our house that DEA would confiscate under asset forfeiture it willy-nilly.

So now 1600 Penna. Ave. is no different than some dive in any urban setting.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/15/2023 20:49 Comments || Top||

#21  If a person is going to hide drugs in the Whitehouse, they WILL know where that blind spot is.
Posted by: Slats Snore5077 || 07/15/2023 21:56 Comments || Top||

#22  ... and I think it was a delivery. Hunter will NOT be seen out on the streets picking up cocaine. He will have it delivered by someone who has access to the White House
Posted by: Slats Snore5077 || 07/15/2023 22:15 Comments || Top||

#23  Only someone in security would know the blind spots. I don’t accept that the coke was in the cubbyhole. I believe that there was a couple of narrative tries at a location that would allow them to say that the perp could not be identified. The Hazmat testing took place in the library of residence. No security protocol would have you move possible anthrax from the office side of the White House into the residence. It was found in the library. You don’t march possible anthrax around. When it is moved it goes out of the building. The Administration is lying and doing it badly.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 22:26 Comments || Top||

#24  So the finger prints will not be Hunters on the bag. Only the supplier's. By the way. Why has Hunter not been seen since the find? If he was innocent, why is he NOT vehemently running around defending himself.
Posted by: Slats Snore5077 || 07/15/2023 22:28 Comments || Top||

#25  If the cubby was a delivery, the baggy will have the dealers prints. If Hunter left it in the library, it would have his prints. The balcony snort is why he is not visible. He will make no statement until his plea deal. Jill is making a bad mistake not getting him into rehab immediately. If anything bad gets into Hunter’s supply, how will that look for the first family? If the powers that be have decided that Joe needs to go, facilitating a Hunter OD would help move that along.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 22:52 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden nibbles on frightened young girl during trip to Finland, weirding out Twitter users
[FoxNews] Video footage shows little girl squirming to avoid kiss from Biden.

The eyebrow-raising behavior from the president came as he concluded a five-day trip to Europe, where he participated in a Lithuanian summit to shore up support for Ukraine amid its war with Russia and showcase Finland's NATO membership.

During the trip, Biden committed multiple speaking gaffes, which included confusing Russia and Ukraine, as well as their leaders.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Oh my god.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 07/15/2023 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Ask yourself, knowing likely outcomes and visuals, why must his handlers continue to put children in his path? Are this kids being used as props ?

This is insidious kind of evil.



Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2023 3:45 Comments || Top||

#3  In the year of BLM riots and MeToo we elect a dirty cop and an old white guy with a groping problem who never left his basement. Seems legit.
Posted by: Hupolunter de Medici7308 || 07/15/2023 5:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember the LSD voters and DC Deep State & Swamp swear by him and will vote, or print extra ballots again for him in 2024.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/15/2023 6:12 Comments || Top||


#6  Been a while, but here is a Week in Books:

Oh no! It's Uncle Joe!

-George Alexopoulos, StudioNJ
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2023 10:08 Comments || Top||

#7  This dysfunctional presidency only continues with the compliance of the media outlets that Black this out.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 10:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Re #6: 429 Too Many Requests
Posted by: Otto Fleatle6183 || 07/15/2023 15:37 Comments || Top||

#9  I get the feeling that if Jerry Sandusky primaried Biden, a CNN moderator would ask the two of them about what new ways we could support Ukraine better. This is a national nightmare.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 15:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Otto, its like everyone in that video is trolling that story. Except they aren't trolling. Mom taking selfies of her daughter being assaulted. The dude-bro wannabes with their mule teeth cosmetics celebrating and yucking it up. Incredible.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2023 16:03 Comments || Top||

#11  They're not even trying to cover any of this up. The "President" and vice president are walking, talking disasters and they're not even trying to conceal it. They know they have the means to control the ballot box. They're rubbing our faces in it.
Posted by: Crusader || 07/15/2023 17:09 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/15/2023 20:58 Comments || Top||

#13  The Ballad of Ashley Biden should have been a target of Fed censorship. Not sure whether this means they have calmed down the obvious stuff or if Biden is now a speed bump. I guess they could amplify as easy as throttle.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 22:03 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Kurt Schlichter: Day 1 for the New GOP Prez
[Qoshe via Bongino] We can fight about who the nominee should be and we will until the convention, when people who actually care about the country and put beating the Democrat communists ahead of their petty prejudices and feuds will unite to get our GOP nominee elected in November. But what then? Well, here is a plan for any of the serious candidates — sorry Asa and that governor of East Dakota guy — for his/her first day in office.

January 20, 2025, Inauguration Day, will be seriously lit.

Our next president will awaken and I suggest some good, strong coffee and a light breakfast. It’s going to be a big day of kicking Dem tail.
Kurt has a better grasp on solutions than anyone running
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/15/2023 07:11 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Most of the candidates don’t have it in them.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 13:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Also, order the US Marshals to raid the FBI HQ, seizing all records-paper and electronic, all phones and ALL weapons. Shoot any who resist or claim "I'm the FBI, you can't do th-*BANG*." Tell the new Federal DA's they get a 25k bonus for the conviction of each FBI agent, NSA agent, or other federal agents. Order the IRS to audit every member of congress, no matter of party EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Order the borders secured and invader's repelled by gunfire. Announce that any state, city, or county with Sanctuary policies on the books will have their governments arrested and charged with aiding and abetting the invasion of the United States.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/15/2023 16:00 Comments || Top||


Watch: Mike Pence Squirms As Carlson Dismantles Neocon Talking Points On Ukraine
[ZeroHedge] Tucker Carlson utterly dismantled the necon talking points of Trump's former Vice President Mike Pence, during an on-stage interview before a large audience of the FAMiLY Leadership Summit in Iowa on Friday.

Rather than respond to Carlson's criticisms about why tens of billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on far-away Ukraine (which Carlson note is a country "most people can't find on a map") rather than focusing on protecting and restoring American cities in decline, a visibly irritated Pence instead vaguely said he could "do both". Watch Pence squirm below, as the crowd loudly cheered Carlson's question...
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2023 06:41 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tucker ended more than Pence. Mike was done already. The House and Senate members that have been prioritizing support for Ukraine at our expense are now fully exposed and vulnerable to primary challenges. We have given them mandates repeatedly to accomplish our goals and not the projects of their globalist paymasters. We have not given them the option to support our desires. Mandate means mandatory. Certainly, some of them will survive their terrible voting resumes through corruption in 2024, but the tide has turned and the sea will take out the garbage or we will rake it off the beach.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 12:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't see Pence squirming. He's quite brazen about it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2023 13:43 Comments || Top||

#3  He is preening for his donors. Picture him dressed a Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi grinding on Jabba, an accurate metaphor but not for weak stomachs.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 14:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Ironically, he is actually being honest. He does not care about the proles in the USA. But he does want their "votes."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2023 14:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Incredible their inability to turn off their programming.

Must say line must say line must say line.

These four can just go home, hang up the coat, and buy some cats.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2023 16:08 Comments || Top||


Economy
EPA is Coming for Your A/C - by taxing it to death
[Epoch Times] The Biden administration has announced stringent new rules to reduce the use of coolants used in most air conditioning units and other appliances in the name of fighting climate change, with experts warning it will likely mean Americans will have to pay more to stay cool.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week issued a final rule to slash the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by 40 percent by 2028 while decrying the chemical a "climate super-pollutant."

The rule dovetails with earlier efforts under the 2020 American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act to reduce the production and consumption of these chemicals by 85 percent by 2036.
A hefty hidden tax on current air conditioners, paid through maintenance contractors, to save the planet from scorching hot temperatures, like we're having now, but which the news tells us every day is due to man-caused climate change.
"Service technicians say that replacing refrigerant lost from a leak now costs upwards of $800, about double what it did a year ago," Mr. Lieberman wrote. "Moreover, EPA’s HFC quotas tighten in the years ahead, so the ratchet will keep turning, surely causing homeowners’ bills to increase further still."

And while the environmental benefits of phasing out HFCs have become conventional wisdom, these, too, have been challenged.

"The U.S. HFC phasedown program, bolstered by domestic innovation to develop alternative chemicals and equipment, is paving the way for the United States to tackle climate change and strengthen global competitiveness," Joe Goffman, principal deputy assistant administrator of EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, in a statement.
Read through that dude's title and tell me we don't have enough administrators.
Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Benjamin Zycher, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, penned a critical op-ed in the Washington Examiner when EPA first unveiled a proposal (pdf) to begin curbing HFCs back in 2021.

"The HFC phaseout makes no sense as part of a larger international effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions," the pair wrote. They performed a calculation based on the EPA’s estimate that slashing HFCs in the United States would eliminate the equivalent of 4.7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide.
About the same as Kerry's world travels, private or commercial jets, and/or private yachts.
"The 4.7-million-ton equivalent reduction would be 17 one-thousandths of 1 percent, the temperature effect of which would be undetectable," they argued.

"This phaseout has nothing to do with environmental protection and everything to do with classic Beltway rent-seeking by a special interest group. It should be rejected," they wrote.
Do I detect a pattern? Gas stoves? Internal combustion vehicles? Gas-fired power plants? Gates 'baby nuke' in Wyoming? Coal-fired anything?

Posted by: Bobby || 07/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Electric fan and Ice...no prtoblem.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 07/15/2023 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  So is the patent on R134 expiring? Time to force adoption of the next version?
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/15/2023 0:59 Comments || Top||

#3  I think they should start by completely banning air conditioning in federal offices. In Washington and everywhere south of there. And especially in the EPA offices. See how they like it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/15/2023 1:10 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't think it's gonna work,

Will Texas become too hot for humans?

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2023 5:20 Comments || Top||


#6  EPA was founded to address clean air and water. Obviously, that has been accomplished as temperature was never in their original mandate. Time to close the doors and turn out the light.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2023 8:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Start with all government offices banning A/C. Next replace all government vehicles, especially those up-armored SUVs, with BEVs. Don't Say It -- Do It! ...won't ever happen.
Posted by: magpie || 07/15/2023 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Challenge every new rule in court.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Challenge this one in Arizona.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||

#10  They are just creating a black market. My neighbor just had our local neighborhood AC tech stop by and add 2 pounds of coolant after a few adjustments. $200 cash; no receipt.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/15/2023 17:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Dear fellow frogs, look around you, does the water seem to be getting very hot?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/15/2023 18:51 Comments || Top||

#12  No idea about the current market, but some years back moving Freon was a profitable as wholesale cocaine.

I am so tired of this climate change scam that I don't know whether to root for the ice age or the meteor. And to think we used to laugh at the Soviets for that Lysenko business.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/15/2023 19:46 Comments || Top||

#13  @#1 - But don't you need coolant to make ice?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/15/2023 20:50 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Detroit police commissioner caught in car with prostitute, asks deputies to 'help him out'
[NYPOST] A member of the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
Police Board of Commissioners has resigned in disgrace after he was caught in the act with a hooker in his car — then asked officers if they could "help him out."

Bryan Ferguson, who represented District 1 for the DPBC and was the former chair of Detroit’s police oversight board, announced his resignation Thursday after news broke that he had been found with the sex worker on Wednesday morning.

"It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the residents of Detroit in police oversight," Ferguson told the Detroit Free Press in a statement.

"After further consideration of the best interests of my family and the Board, I am choosing to resign as District 1 Police Commissioner effective immediately."

Undercover narcotics agents from the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department spotted Ferguson committing a lewd act with a known sex worker around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday.

Capt. Jason Bates said he asked deputies at the scene if they could "help him out" and told him his position.

"At that time, Mr. Bryan Ferguson stepped out, identified himself as a Detroit police commissioner," Bates told Fox 2 Detroit.

"A title or position doesn’t make them above the law."

Ferguson told the Detroit Free Press the allegations are a "big misunderstanding" and said he "has nothing to hide."

Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "A title or position doesn’t make them above the law."

Secret Service closes White House cocaine investigation, says it is 'not able' to identify suspect
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2023 4:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Detroit police commissioner caught in car with prostitute, asks deputies to 'help him out'

Sorry Chief, we only carry Narcan not the little blue pills.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2023 7:56 Comments || Top||

#3  He claimed the woman, whom he said he did not know, hopped into his truck and “just pulled up right on me.”

"The b*tch set me up!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2023 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  In CA in the 70's at least there was a tradition of cops handing out "Get Out of Jail Free" cards to friends and folks who did them a favor - basically a note that said "Please extend what ever level of consideration is appropriate under the circumstances". If the arresting cop let you off he kept the card and used it to claim a solid from the issuer. Two-tier Justice ain't new.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/15/2023 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  With him being a liberal Democrat I have to ask...
Was the flesh peddler a HE, SHE, HE-IT, or SHE-IT ? 😂
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/15/2023 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  A shim...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2023 9:44 Comments || Top||

#7  "Detroit police commissioner caught in car with prostitute, asks deputies to 'help him out'"

Sorry, Commish, we're homicide, that's traffic.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/15/2023 9:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Detroit police commissioner caught in car with prostitute,

Gretchen Whitmer?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2023 11:26 Comments || Top||

#9  I believe Ferguson has redefined the meaning of the term early bird special.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 12:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Detroit is a friendly city. People jump in your car all the time to offer you... uh, goods and services.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/15/2023 19:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Kamala Harris says US must ‘reduce population' to fight climate change in latest gaffe
[NYP] Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday called on the US to “reduce population” in an effort to combat climate change, but she meant to say “reduce pollution,” according to the White House.

The shocking gaffe happened as the 58-year-old vice president delivered remarks at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Md., on the need to build a “clean energy economy.”

“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water,” Harris said, eliciting applause from the audience.

The official White House transcript of her speech acknowledges and corrects Harris’ disquieting error.

In the transcript, “population” is crossed out and “pollution” is added in brackets to denote what the VP intended to say.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2023 06:47 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You can help by shutting down the Southern border, oh Czar of illegal immigration.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2023 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems she and a lot of LSD's have been loosely following the GA. Guide Stones inscriptions.

Reduce humanity under 500million to be in balance with nature. C-19, AV-flu, Swine-Flu, Bird Flu, Ebola and etc... all in the last 30 years.

Manage humanities reproduction (Abortion, Sterilization, mRNA, promote LGBT? and force children to undergo Transgender surgeries.

Develop terms th a living new language. (to many examples to list)

Control feeling, religion, culture, and erase tradition. - Attacks on the Holiday land, Israel Christianity, Catholic Church, and promoting Islam as a 1 religion solution.

Personal rights must be balanced by social duties and responsibilities.

Earth 1st, Nature before humanity.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/15/2023 9:16 Comments || Top||

#3  I always laugh at the term "man made." After all, once God got the ball rolling, only humans have made humans.

And who anointed the freaks who declare3 that man is "unnatural?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2023 9:36 Comments || Top||

#4  That harridan meant what she said. But I suspect it's the other way around. The Davos/Gates Gang use climate change and methods to "fight it" to slow human social and economic growth which eventually results population reduction.

The irony is Gates' push for the vaccines. First he says there are too many people on the planet, then he pushes vaccinations "to save lives", but the vaccination maims and kills.

But not to worry. Vaccines are finding their way in the food we eat.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/15/2023 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Dr. Seuss


i mean this is her reading level...
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/15/2023 11:48 Comments || Top||

#6  The Soros DAs put in work to achieve depopulation every single day.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 13:03 Comments || Top||

#7  You can help by shutting down the Southern border, oh Czar of illegal immigration.

No, no. She wants to reduce our population and replace us with the illegals.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2023 13:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Ok, we'll start with you Kamala, and in doing so we will raise the collective IQ of the planet by 2.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/15/2023 14:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Okay, we can stop shipping food, water and electricity to all those massive blue strongholds and reduce our population inside of 6 weeks. This will include DC, I'm okay with that sacrifice.

Oh? That's not what you wanted? Then don't say you do.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/15/2023 16:37 Comments || Top||


Probe opened into FBI targeting of House Intelligence committee staffers during Russia probe
[Just The News] The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday opened a formal investigation into why the FBI snooped on two Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers during the height of the Russia collusion probe, suggesting the seizure of their private email and records may have been retaliation for the panel's efforts to expose bureau misconduct.

The letter from Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to FBI Director Christopher Wray was prompted by reporting in Just the News and the New York Post revealing that Kash Patel, the chief investigator on then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' team, had his email seized from Google back in late 2017, just before the release of a report that identified significant failures and abuses in the Russia collusion scandal.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2023 06:30 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What can one say? Can the stench emanating from the FBI headquarters get more overpowering?
Posted by: Chaiger Henbane8193 || 07/15/2023 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  re: #1

I'll let you know when it over-powers some one.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/15/2023 11:47 Comments || Top||

#3  It is time to begin grilling Horowitz, Wray and the Deputy Directors until somebody slips up. A good line of question would be about Schiff’s staff leaking and if there were investigations done. James Wolfe might also be a subject of discussion.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2023 13:01 Comments || Top||



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