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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Army Scrambling to Get Back Soldiers It Kicked Out over Biden's Military Vaccine Mandate
See also here.
[Breitbart] The Army now appears to be trying to bring back into service soldiers it kicked out over the Biden administration’s policy to remove servicemembers who rejected the coronavirus vaccine mandate, according to a letter from the Army several former soldiers posted online.

The letter, addressed to “Former Service Member,” states that there is new Army guidance that would correct military records of those kicked out, which would enable those who were removed and had their DD-214s marked with a certain code barring them from reentering service to be able to return.

The letter instructed former soldiers on how they could get their records corrected, then added:

Individuals who desire to apply to return to service should contact their local Army, US Army Reserve (USAR) or Army National Guard (ARNG) recruiter for more information. Individuals may locate an Army recruiter by visiting https://www.goarmy.com, a USAR recruiter by visiting https://www.goarmyreserve.com or an ARNG recruiter by visiting https://nationalguard.com/get-started

Sam Shoemate, a retired Army chief warrant officer 2 who fought the mandate, and one of the administrations of military watchdog website Terminal CWO, posted a copy of the letter on X:
Tweet can be seen at the link.
The Biden administration imposed a vaccine mandate on the military in August 2021, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin then issued a policy that said any servicemember who did not follow the mandate by December 2020 would be kicked out.

As a result, more than 8,000 troops were, in fact, kicked out, tens of thousands of National Guard members were sidelined and lost drill time and pay, and a number simply decided not to reenlist.

Thousands more sought a religious, administrative, or medical exemption, and most were either denied or were waiting for a decision when House Republicans forced the Pentagon to rescind the mandate via the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. The mandate and decision to kick out thousands of servicemembers came at the same time as a historic recruitment crisis.

Brad Miller, a former soldier who was punished over the mandate and resigned from the Army, also said he received a letter and called on the Army to compensate soldiers who were punished and kicked out or otherwise resigned due to the mandate.

He wrote:

Many have seen this letter. I just got mine. When I resigned from the Army, it was clear DoD was breaking the law (and senior leaders were likely engaged in treason).

Why doesn’t the Army ask me if I want my resignation converted into a retirement dated with the release date of this new policy, and along with it offer compensation for the command I was wrongly relieved of, compensation for the remainder of whatever my career might have been, and then offer me my adjusted pension from this month forward? Then offer the same to all others similarly wronged.

DoD can’t fix itself. It’s run by officers whose loyalty is in question, and they’re in turned [sic] led by Cabinet & Administration level officials whose loyalty is assuredly un-American.

The letter comes after the Army quietly issued a memo formally rescinding its vaccine mandate — a year after House Republicans forced the Biden administration to rescind its policy.

The memo formally halted further discharges, sought to remove from soldiers’ records punitive actions due to the mandate, banned further punitive actions, and said servicemembers could get their general discharges upgraded to honorable charges and even pursue reentering service.

Recently retired Army Maj. Chase Spears suggested in a piece on American Mind that the recent measures were tied to the Army’s abysmal recruiting numbers. He wrote:

One might be curious why the Army is doing an about face on this now, given that its top official clearly has a different perspective from the policy change she’s authorizing. Last month the Army missed its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goals by 10,000, the third consecutive year to have a significant shortfall. In fiscal year 2021, the Army missed its recruiting goal by 25 percent, even after lowering its initial goal for the year and reducing enlistment standards. If this trend holds, the force will have no choice but to cut units, and the heavy load already borne by those currently serving will increase accordingly. As top military officials continue to deny the impact of dragging the Army into progressive social policy advocacy, reality remains unmoved.

Spears discussed the persecution that soldiers who did not wish to receive the vaccine faced from overzealous commanders eager to implement the Biden administration’s mandate. He wrote:

The Army requires several immunizations and checkups throughout the year to maintain one’s medical readiness. Not one of those came with the coercive force of the Covid mandate. Late on your flu shot? You just get told to take one at your next convenience. Late on a vision check? The same applied. But in 2021 on Fort Leavenworth, proof of the Covid shot was the only path to being able to live an existence that in any way might reflect normal. It became the primary marker of human worth on that base, and at many others.



Under the management of Maj. Gen. Douglas Sims, some base facilities were set aside only for the vaccinated. I traveled to Fort Riley for a warfighter exercise in late 2021. First Infantry Division Policy limited unvaccinated visitors to hotel rooms and workplaces. It also restricted access to base morale facilities and the commissary (the base grocery store) to those who had a vaccine card. Friends of mine on Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) told me of similar policies at their location. A two-class system among military service members was established across much of the force. Hearkening back to biblical language, you were clean or unclean based on your shot status.

“Major General Sims’s performance, however, was rewarded. He has since been promoted to lieutenant general and is currently the Director of Operations for the Joint Staff,” Spears wrote, adding, “Would he treat an unvaccinated officer who re-enters the Army with respect in the days to come, or would such a uniformed citizen still be worthy of segregation?”

Spears discussed how other Army leaders punished unvaccinated soldiers harshly and were rewarded.

He called on senior Army officials to apologize for the conduct.

“Though this policy reversal is a step toward sanity, it is far from enough. As I have said before, senior Army officials should apologize for their Covid-related misconduct. Beyond that, they owe a deep reservoir of amends to subordinates whose trust was so casually broken,” he wrote.

“We must never allow totalitarians to persecute their fellow citizens in our nation’s military ever again. A force that can so easily lose sight of its purpose is one that is rightly viewed through a skeptic’s lens.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/19/2023 00:10 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Hope every eligible soldier takes this opportunity to get records corrected. As for returning to the Army? Hope for 100% rejection of the same offer.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/19/2023 7:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Army Board for Correction of Military Records (ABCMR) DD Form 149, should be automatic for ALL of these soldiers. A JAG Officer should hand the returnee a final copy of the approved 149 prior to re-entry.

I somehow doubt it will happen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2023 7:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Fuck You
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/19/2023 9:17 Comments || Top||

#4  "...An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An 'Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!
" --Tommy, by Rudyard Kipling says it all
Posted by: magpie || 11/19/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Indeed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2023 14:15 Comments || Top||

#6  I have no problem with people returning that got screwed out of retirement. The issue that they will continue to have is patriots will not be interested in joining Team Woke. There needs to be a housecleaning in 2025.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/19/2023 15:02 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
The Epstein Effect? Jerome Brooks, The Staffer Who Was Called a Fat Ass Stupid Idiot by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is Dead
[AubreyRTaylor] Jerome Brooks one of the Black male staffers who was berated by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, in her infamous audio recording has reportedly committed suicide at 36 years of age according to multiple sources. As far as we know, the Sheila Jackson Lee for Mayor of Houston Campaign has not said a word about the untimely death of Jerome Brooks, who, according to several sources took his life on Sunday, October 29, 2023, which was only a few days after "LEAKED AUDIO" of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, berating Jerome Brooks and another staffer calling them idiots surfaced.

Jerome Brooks is the staffer who, according to the audio is the person who had switched the papers out that "SHE-JACK" was upset about.

Jerome Brooks is the staffer Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee was talking about in the audio when she said, "Okay. So when I called Jarome, he only sitting up there like a fat ass stupid idiot talking about, uh, what the fuck? He doesn't know. Okay? Both of y'all are fuck ups [inaudible]. It's the worst shit that I could have ever had put together. Two goddamn big-ass children fucking idiots serve no goddamn purpose. Ain't managing nobody. Nobody's respecting them. Nobody gives a shit about what you're doing and you ain't doing shit. And this is an example of it. I gave it to Jerome. This is not child's work."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Doesn't mean it isn't true.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/19/2023 6:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Political staffers, they come and they go.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2023 6:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I really don't have much good to say about people who go into this "line of work."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 7:02 Comments || Top||

#4  sheila jackson lee .. a black congress critter with two confederate generals names. my my.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/19/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Sheila Jackson Lee calls somebody else "a Fat Ass Stupid Idiot"?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/19/2023 11:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Hmmm, sounds like he had a few comorbidities and was not long for this world anyway.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/19/2023 11:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Sad. It would be interesting to know if he had initiated any action regarding the abuse.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/19/2023 14:01 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Report: Joe Biden to Escape Charges for Mishandling Classified Docs
[BREITBART] Special Counsel Robert Hur, who is investigating President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
for mishandling documents, is not expected to charge anyone, sources familiar with the matter told CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
and the Wall Street Journal.

The report suggests a double standard of justice. While there will reportedly be no consequences for Biden, Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted former President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
in June for mishandling classified documents.

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur in January to investigate Biden after classified documents from his time as vice president in Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
’s administration were found in his possession at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC, and at his Wilmington, Delaware, home.

Hur was among those at the Justice Department who had knowledge about the Russia hoax perpetrated against former President Donald Trump.

Hur will reportedly issue a report on his investigation that could be made public by the end of the year.

Hur’s investigation encompassed 100 Biden aides, colleagues, and family members, including Hunter Biden. Hur also interviewed Joe Biden for two days in October, the Journal reported:

The documents in question date to Biden’s time as vice president during the B.O. regime as well as his days in the U.S. Senate. The number of interviews Hur’s team has conducted indicates it cast a wide net in trying to answer questions about how the material was packed and handled and wound up at an office Biden used at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington-based think tank, and in the garage of his home in Wilmington, Del., alongside his vintage Corvette.

Among those Hur spoke to were Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
, who was an aide to Biden in the Senate and his national security adviser when he was vice president; current White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan; top White House political aide Steve Ricchetti and Biden’s former chief of staff Ron Klain.

The investigation has focused on who handled the documents and what procedures they followed in doing so, the people said.

Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IF WE HAVE EQUAL JUSTICE?
Then what is Good for Biden, is Good for Trump.

But then again.
Trump was President, he did not have, or allow foreign nations to use his Fla. home, and did not have Classified Doc's going back 20 years (prior to his presidency) like the Biden's did.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/19/2023 6:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump did not have a crackhead son selling copies of those documents to the Chinese and who knows who else.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/19/2023 10:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Stunning, brazen corruption on display by DoJ. As Vice President and Senator he had no right to retaining/storing those documents nor power to change their classification. It makes a mockery of any claim of "equal justice", or "no one is above the law", instead it screams that politically powerful democrats are above the law!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/19/2023 13:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Dear Joe, I'm changing my last name to Biden. Can I have immunity from any and all crimes I may commit? Thanks!

Tom Biden
Posted by: Tom || 11/19/2023 14:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I remember there being different levels of controls for documents depending on their level of sensitivity. What level of control requires protection by garage door opener? Sunday circulars?
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/19/2023 14:55 Comments || Top||


Release of J6 videos by Speaker Johnson appears to prove insurrection was inside job, Sen. Mike Lee calls for investigation of J6 committee
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Courtesy of Frank G:
Sen. Mike Lee calls for investigation of J6 committee after tapes released: 'Deliberately hid from us'
Skid linked it yesterday. People need to go to prison, and NOT the J6ers
[Fox News] 'Maybe they never even questioned their own narrative,' Lee wrote on social media of former GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.


And from NN2N1, a promise:
Committee on House Administration Access to USCP Video From January 6, 2021
Well I'll be busy looking at what they CLAIM to be all the tapes, the next 2 days.
Looking forward to your analysis, NN2N1.
Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I as have previously stated ...
Given the length of time (years).
Who can say we now have ALL of the tapes?
Who can said some of the tapes released were not Re-staged weeks, months or years later?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/19/2023 9:12 Comments || Top||

#2  BTW: anyone else notice the US-Gov video links has comments on the right indicating a created and MODIFIED date and time:

Some show a Mod the NEXT day
Created Sep 6, 2023, 6:44 PM
Modified Sep 7, 2023, 12:24 PM

While others show NO Modification:
Created Sep 6, 2023, 6:18 PM
Modified Sep 6, 2023, 6:18 PM
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/19/2023 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3 
2nd initial observation

NO constancy in video run length times between many cameras.

I am seeing videos the same size or even smaller in MB. With RUN times as much as a minute +/- longer. Which may indicate either the DVR's are not the same, the video FPS used is not the same, and/or the HD/OS recorded media formatted block sizes are set differently.

So it seems it may initially to point to the fact Congress is using a collection of different CCTV cameras that are setup to record at different capture modes (VGA, D1, 720 or 1080) and Frames Per Second (FPS).

OR! Congress is cherry picking what we are seeing.

(note my own DVR 1TB with 8 ip67 cam's is set to 720i at 30 fps. It collects over 2+ weeks of video.)
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/19/2023 10:11 Comments || Top||

#4  *happy sigh* Carry on, my dear.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2023 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Can we get a reaction from Kevin McCarthy?
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/19/2023 14:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Black Chicagoans Rally Against Sanctuary Policies, Promise to Vote for Republicans
[BREITBART] A group of black reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
residents rallied on the city’s South Side to warn City Hall and the City Council that they are organizing to defeat any official that supports Mayor Brandon Johnson
...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He became an organizer with the Chicago Teachers Union in 2011, and helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Hizzonner, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodlng Commissioners from 2018 to 2023...
’s fealty to sanctuary city policies and the continued spending of millions on illegal aliens, even to the extent of voting for Republicans over the Democrat Party.

Speakers warned the city’s aldermen that they will be targeted for removal and that blacks in the areas so badly impacted by the onslaught of border crossers flooding into the city would even begin voting for Republicans and independents to defeat Democrats who are so sold-out to the illegal alien lobby.

The warnings came just ahead of a new policy from City Hall that will limit the freebies doled out to border crossers to 60 days in city shelters.

Mayor Johnson announced the new limitations after the Chicago City Council passed a 2024 budget in a vote of 41-8. The budget sets aside an additional $150 million to care for more than 21,200 illegals in the city, according to WTTW.

Johnson claimed that the new limits show that he will not "sacrifice the needs of Chicagoans in support of those who wish to become Chicagoans."

"This approach that we have right here is to make sure we are addressing the anxiety and fear that people have, whether you are a taxpayer or someone who is seeking asylum in the city of Chicago while speaking to our hopes and aspirations," Johnson added.
Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actions not words, please.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2  These good folks will enter the Voting locations on election day, only to be told that they've "voted already by mail".
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/19/2023 7:49 Comments || Top||

#3  #2: the supremes should proclaim that all federal elections be in person, on paper, and hand counted.
or
we could eliminate all constitutional amendments except for 1 - 10 and add ...
11: no consideration for shape or color of skin.
12: fed elections in person,on paper,hand counted
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/19/2023 10:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Dead and fake voters remain ambivalent.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/19/2023 14:49 Comments || Top||

#5  11: no consideration for shape or color of skin.

That'll never fly. Too much money in the Race/Gender/'Fat Acceptance Movement' Hustling Rackets.

And you'd also be saying that 'Protected Classes' would get equal, but not superior, rights.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/19/2023 15:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Great headline! Article includes no direct quotation of "threat," much less "promise." Imagine my surprise.
Posted by: Glaimble Glaving5764 || 11/19/2023 15:57 Comments || Top||


Trump Praises Johnson for Having the 'Courage and Fortitude' to Release the Full January 6 Tapes
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Former President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
praised Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday after Republicans began releasing the full security footage from January 6.

The Committee on House Administration shared the footage.

Approximately 90 hours of the 44,000 hours of footage had been released on Friday, but the full trove is expected to be uploaded by Monday.

"Today, we will begin immediately posting video on a public website and move as quickly as possible to add to the website nearly all of the footage, more than 40,000 hours," Johnson said in a statement.

"This decision will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials," Johnson said.

Johnson added that individuals can request specific videos from the committee directly.

In a post to Truth Social, Trump congratulated Johnson for releasing the footage, which Republicans, especially Rep. Matt Gaetz, have been fighting to make public.

"Congratulations to Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson for having the Courage and Fortitude to release all of the J6 Tapes, which will explicitly reveal what really happened on January 6th!" Trump wrote.

Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anyone who believes this is "all the footage" please schedule your photoshoot with the Easter Bunny now...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Given the length of time (years).
Who can say we now have ALL of the tapes?
Who can said some of the tapes were not Re-staged weeks, months or years later?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/19/2023 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  It is enough.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/19/2023 14:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Where's the Ray Epps videos?

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/19/2023 16:24 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ FBI: "DoublePlus Ungood Thinking"!

Exactly. Something with him exiting the FBI Mobile HQ metal stairs?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/19/2023 17:56 Comments || Top||


Growing Antisemitism Among Democrats Is Creating a Political Crisis
[BREITBART] The horrific terrorist attacks of October 7th, 2023, should have inspired a moment of bipartisan unity in Washington, D.C.
Republican Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) first act as the new Speaker of the House was a floor vote in favor of a congressional resolution expressing explicit support for Israel and condemning Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
for the deadliest attack against Jews since the Holocaust. Sadly, too many Democrats responded with equivocation, talk of "both sides," and demands for a ceasefire.

Clearly there is steep division within the Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
over Israel. Traditional Democrats stand firm for Israel. 22 House Democrats voted to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib
...the very first ever Paleostinian-American ever sworn into Congress in 2019. She is a member of The Squad and consistently votes against the U.S. national interest. She's a Dem, naturally, from a safe district you wouldn't want to live in (Michigan's 12th congressional district). She wants the country to be kinda like Gaza only without any Jews for neighbors...
for her rhetoric against Israel.

Worryingly, there is an emerging anti-Israel , even antisemitic is growing among Democrats. The AP-NORC Center poll reports that nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Obvious and widespread antisemitism was unthinkable six weeks ago. Every day, throughout the world, we are hearings phrases not heard since World War II. Many long-time Democrats are extremely concerned with their party.

"Last night, 15 of my fellow wardheelers voted AGAINST standing with our ally Israel and condemning Hamas holy warriors who brutally murdered, raped, and kidnapped babies, children, men, women, and elderly, including Americans," Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), wrote on X (Twitter). "They are despicable and do not speak for our party."

Despicable Democrats deserve to be called out for the growing antisemitism within the modern leftist coalition. In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, numerous progressive activist groups, including college Democratic clubs, chapters of the Democratic Socialists for America, the Oakland teachers union, and members of Black Lives Matter celebrated the terrorist attacks. In a since-deleted tweet, BLM reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
declared, "I stand with Paleostine," accompanied by an image of a Hamas paraglider.

Many Jewish Americans no longer feel welcome in a Democratic Party, which has long tolerated antisemitic hate. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu...
(D-MN) rose to national prominence as she repeated antisemitic tropes, including her past statement that "Israel has hypnotized the world." She hasn’t been banished to political obscurity. Democrats have hailed her as a progressive icon.

Most shamefully, fellow progressive Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI) continues to defend the antisemitic slogan "from the river to the sea," which calls for the eradication of Israel. Rather than apologize or express remorse, Tlaib has only grown more emboldened. "We will remember in 2024," she threatened, in reference to the 2024 presidential election. (Republican criticism led to Tlaib’s formal congressional censure.)

Democrats see Arab Americans as key voters in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Michigan, which Biden barely won in 2020. That explains why, in the face of despicable terrorist attacks against Israel, many Democrats have embraced the callous and calculating "both sides are to blame" talking point.

President Biden said he "thoroughly understands the emotions, both on the Paleostinian side of this argument and on the Jewish side of the argument." Less than a week after the terrorist attacks of October 7th, 55 congressional Democrats signed a letter to President Biden that painted Israel as the aggressor, accused Israel of violating international law, condemned the Israel Defense Forces for its "complete siege of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
," and called for "a humanitarian corridor" to bring aid into Gaza.

Anti-Israeli sentiments are now mainstream among Democrats. This spring, the nonpartisan Gallup survey company found that, by a double-digit margin, Democrats sympathize more with Paleostinians than Israelis when assessing the conflict in the Middle East. In contrast, according to the same survey, nearly eight in ten Republicans are allied with Israel.



Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  The once called & mislabeled MAGA Conspiracy types have been saying for years that the Democrats own actions showed the LSD's were practicing Fascism.

So, once again those blamed and labeled as conspiracy nuts have proven to be the real Breaking News Reporters just 12 to 24+ months ahead of the MSM & Social Media.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/19/2023 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Big Tent(tm)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/19/2023 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  If the left wants to keep saying that the Charlottesville protest is some sort of stain on Republicans, they have no choice but to own Ratshita and the rest of The Squat themselves.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The DNC went antisemitic at the time of Obama’s nomination. Time for Jews to recognize it.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/19/2023 14:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Chuckie Schumer doesn't care, that's for sure.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/19/2023 16:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh look, the true face of the Democrats is revealed, under the KKK hood is a racist, F*ing Nazi wannabe slavemaster just like they always have been.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/19/2023 18:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Projection is their middle name.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 18:43 Comments || Top||


Donald Trump opens up stunning THIRTY-NINE point lead over Ron DeSantis
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
is now 39 points ahead of his rival Ron DeSantis in Florida, a new poll has revealed, in yet more bad news for the struggling state governor.

Trump, 77, won 60 percent of support among registered Republicans polled by the University of North Florida, while DeSantis could only claim 21 percent.

Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's former ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
, Trump's former UN ambassador, came in third with six percent, while Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, won two percent.
like low-fat milk? Ironically
Vivek Ramaswamy, the millionaire entrepreneur and political newcomer whose star has burned brightly but now seems to be fading, won one percent.

The pollsters surveyed 788 people between October 23 and November 4.
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#1  Nikki Haley is a disgusting piece of shit.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/19/2023 4:02 Comments || Top||

#2  It's the boot thing.

This 11-Year Old Photo Might Help Settle the DeSantis Boots Controversy
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/19/2023 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Big fashion statement in Mexico...

Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 6:58 Comments || Top||

#4  That said, DeSantis made a horrible choice to run in this cycle. I have never seen so much political capital evaporate so quickly ever.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 6:59 Comments || Top||

#5  DeSantis played the wrong political cards and continued playing them. IF he had kept the Trumps rants out of the play book, he might looking a VP slot and the White House Oval seat there after.

Whoever were his advisors, I'd be doing an deep check to see if they collected $$$$$$ or future positions from other parties. Because darn sure screwed up his campaign.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/19/2023 9:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Once Never Trump starts whispering in your ear, if you listen, you are doomed.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 9:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Bush, Inc.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/19/2023 9:41 Comments || Top||

#8  For those that love to dig...
DeSantis Campaign Staff inter-circle

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/19/2023 10:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Last "campaign consultant" I had any respect for was Lee Atwater. He was a knife fighter.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 10:26 Comments || Top||

#10  #5 Yep. Not just his campaign - his stock outside of FL has taken a major hit. Dems play the long game.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/19/2023 11:13 Comments || Top||

#11  If the good governor never becomes president, he can always run for Congress, which only requires support within his state. Besides, he’d be more effective as president after he gets to know the DC landscape and personalities. One of Donald Trump’s major handicaps as president was that he didn’t know the people or the levers that would move them — and because of that ignorance, he had no idea who to trust... and who to distrust.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2023 11:19 Comments || Top||

#12  DeSantis was in Congress. His shot would be to move to the senate, but with two Florida Pubs already there, he has nowhere to go in that direction.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 12:06 Comments || Top||

#13  I was a DeSantis booster. He saved Florida from the execrable Andrew Gillum by a nose and won re-election by the biggest margin in Florida history. Turned the state solidly red (and that could change again, so hold your breath) Despite all that, you have to feel at this point there's a giant hole in his store of political savvy to wind up neck and neck or worse with a RINO like Haley.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2023 12:12 Comments || Top||

#14  DeSantis will be fine. They gave him a dump truck of money to run. His wife will be disappointed that things didn’t work out.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/19/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||

#15  Curly toed cowboy boots, don’t fail me now.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 11/19/2023 16:30 Comments || Top||



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