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-Lurid Crime Tales-
ELECTION 2020: The Plot to Steal America (video)
[Man in America] 2020 has been a year like no other. Everything we know, everything we trust, and everything we have come to rely on has changed. So why should we expect the US election to be any different?

Mainstream media are telling us the race is over, Biden won, time to move on, nothing to see here folks. But in your gut, you know something's just not right. From the strange patterns on election night, to the weeks of suspense, to the reports of fraud that evaporate faster than Biden's memory. It just doesn't add up.

In this episode, I'll show you just what's going on behind the scenes in this election, and why the greatest threat we're facing right now, is not an invisible enemy invading our bodies, but one that's invading our country and our minds.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 06:22 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Technical difficulty - Connection refused by host
Posted by: Glomoling Wheting2155 || 12/28/2020 6:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Rechecked. Appears to be ok.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 6:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Must be me I don't have a facebook account <--never had never will -
Posted by: Glomoling Wheting2155 || 12/28/2020 6:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Nor do I. FB not required. Place "Man in America" in DuckDuckGo, your browser or Google it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 6:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Quote from the Website "Man in America" - Comment:

I had no sooner prepared this thread, than YouTube removed the above video. Happily I found it elsewhere, so you can watch and guess why it “violated YouTube’s terms of service” – which are designed to keep the truth from us.

The comment below, taken from the YouTube platform says it all…

One of the greatest videos I have ever seen on YouTube, all categories.

Tell us if you agree – or not – after you’ve viewed in here – on Vimeo!
Posted by: Ebbish Juns5823 || 12/28/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||

#6  VIMEO LINK for ELECTION 2020: The Plot to Steal America (video)
Posted by: Ebbish Juns5823 || 12/28/2020 7:15 Comments || Top||

#7  YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says it will continue to push “authoritative voices” and reduce “borderline content.”

Brainwashed by University of California, Los Angeles · University of California, Santa Cruz · Harvard University until her parents probably told her to stop going to lib colleges all her life and get a job.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/28/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Invisible Hollywood - Home of Oxymorons - Sexy Sexism Soliloquy
[Breitbart] Actress Emma Thompson called out Hollywood’s casting sexism, stating that once a woman passes the age of 50, she becomes “invisible.”

“You get past 50, and you’re invisible,” said Thompson a recent interview on the CultureBlast podcast. The Love Actually and Late Night star was asked what she thought about being offered to play the role of Mother Theresa when she was only in her 50’s.
Posted by: ee green || 12/28/2020 04:27 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Invisible Hollywood -- Home of Oxymorons. Fixed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/28/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Heh... I know a couple of actresses in their 20s and 30s, and they're invisible in the movies they're starring in.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/28/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Waiting around for a screenwriter (massively male demographic) to create a decent role for a woman of their age group is just stupid.

Create a production company to find and generate your own movies projects.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/28/2020 18:28 Comments || Top||

#4  "Look, kids, it's a rusty old chopper!"
"Cool, Dad, but you'd better not... drop her."
That unoiled machinery
Still chewed up the scenery
And laid out poor Pop, good and proper.
Posted by: Hupusoter Theremp1466 || 12/28/2020 20:08 Comments || Top||


Thermopoliums: Here One Day and Gone the Next - Oh the Humanity!
[SCInews] 2,000-Year-Old Fast Food Shop Uncovered in Pompeii.
and 4 Starbucks
Posted by: ee green || 12/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The pics of this one are spectacular -- brilliant color to the frescoes on the counter.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/28/2020 1:03 Comments || Top||

#2  That day
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2020 5:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Even more could have perished. Luckily it was shuttered due to COVID.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 5:53 Comments || Top||

#4  What were the dishes of dog?
Posted by: 3dc || 12/28/2020 14:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Kegogi?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2020 14:47 Comments || Top||

#6  All the other pictures are food items.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/28/2020 16:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Graffito in nearby necessary:

Hungry? Just direct your feet
To Subway! V sesterces? Eat!
Our bread and dogmeat can't be beat --
II stadia down any street!
Posted by: Hupusoter Theremp1466 || 12/28/2020 17:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Little Caesar's?
Posted by: Clavimble Spiter8745 || 12/28/2020 17:47 Comments || Top||

#9  The dog fresco was a warning to thieves, kind of like an ADT sticker, and was not 'food related'. Meant their guard dog(s) were leashed...for now.

These images have been found elsewhere in antiquity, not only in Roman venues.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/28/2020 21:04 Comments || Top||

#10  "Cave Canem" for those who are illiterate.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/28/2020 21:05 Comments || Top||

#11  Even the "Cave Canem" mosaic/welcome mat had a dog on it.

When I saw it, it even had a live dog on it.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/28/2020 22:22 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
2020 Was the Brian Stelter of Years
[Townhall] It's Kurt
Posted by: Frank G || 12/28/2020 10:49 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It definitely is Kurt. He checks to see how his predictions at the beginning of the year panned out.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2020 16:02 Comments || Top||


The Beast From the East Returns For 2021 !
[Watchers] A major Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event is predicted to occur as we start the new year. If the models are correct, we can expect prolonged extremely cold temperatures to affect parts of the northern hemisphere by mid-January.

SSW refers to a rapid rise in temperatures between 10 and 50 km (6.2 - 31 miles) above the surface of our planet.

Several weeks later, we see knock-on effects on the jet stream, which can significantly affect weather in the troposphere -- bringing prolonged extremely cold temperatures such as witnessed in 2018 with an extreme event dubbed 'Beast from the East.'

"The stratospheric sudden warming can sometimes cause the jet stream to ‘snake’ more, and this tends to create a large area of blocking high pressure," the UK Met Office meteorologists explained.

"Typically, this will form over the North Atlantic and Scandinavia."

"This means that northern Europe, including the UK, is likely to get a long spell of dry, cold weather, whereas southern Europe will tend to be more mild, wet and windy. On the boundary of these areas, cold easterly winds develop and in some cases the drop in temperatures leads to snow, which is what happened in early 2018."
Posted by: Groting Splat9626 || 12/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Met Office snow warnings EXTENDED to four days as bitter Atlantic blast hits UK

I believe the effects of a "New Ice Age" have begun to be shown in the United Kingdom.
Posted by: Bigfoot Clunk8532 || 12/28/2020 8:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Flying SUVs?
Posted by: AlanC || 12/28/2020 8:11 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
CCP Is Taking Over Other Nations That (were) Once Free - RUNext?
[NTD] In this episode, we’ll be speaking with Se Hoon Kim, director of the Captive Nations Coalition of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, about the Chinese government’s abusive policies towards other countries.
Posted by: Glibheart Frieze2021 || 12/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  They're just jealous that China is offering a better deal than the ass rapists that run our banks. Those jackals know how to ruin a country with shock therapy and make a mint off it.
Posted by: Elmung Hatrack5948 || 12/28/2020 3:29 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't know what Mr Kim has to say about it, but all that's enabling China is the tyranny of the minority in these countries; their unanswerability to their majority that allows them to sell their country piecemeal to others.

China doesn't have to do anything but buy the bureaucrats, flood markets with cheap shit for profiteers and infiltrate academics. The bureaucrats advise the political class, crippling policy. The academics create instability and productivity. And business groups help normalize the takeover of local economy. All China does is use the latent angst, imbecility, and greed present in any tyranny of the mediocre, to encroach into that nation's sovereignty.

These CPD people are just those who have been locked out of the influence matrix in America because sell-outs abound in the administration and the polity in general. The real problem is not China, or Russia... it never was. The real problem is the tyranny of the mediocre and no democracy to speak of.

But that's just my take.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/28/2020 3:48 Comments || Top||

#3  That they had and continue to pay so much for them, they were weren't 'free'. Cheap maybe, but not free.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2020 4:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Well said, Dron.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/28/2020 8:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Dron is exactly right.

No one forced us to buy Chinese garbage, or ship our manufacturing to China, look the other way while their military expanded, or give scarce university spots to millions of underachieving but full-pay wealthy Chinese brats, or countenance the creation of spy nests aka "Confucius Institutes" in our research university STEM departments.

We did all these things willingly. Because we are ruled by corrupt idiots.

The Chinese didn't use superior force to achieve this. Their civilization may be ancient but their current culture is a mixture of opportunism, theft, bullying, cheap imitation, mimicry and spectacular corruption. They're pushing on an open door.
Posted by: Jack Dribble1654 || 12/28/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#6  "No one forced us to buy Chinese garbage" Incorrect

The Politicians owned by the CCP forced our manufacturers out of business by excessive mandatory regulations while at the same time allowing Chinese products to pour in making competition by US manufacturers utterly impossible.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/28/2020 13:54 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ If you are unable to purchase a ball valve, water spigot, or electrical outlet made in the US, then your are "forced" to buy the Chinese junk or do without.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 14:18 Comments || Top||

#8  #7 There is always "German" (made in Turkey), Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/28/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Got our IS made Sonova - 'Sonomask' today. Must be the only ones on our block to have Jewish COVID-19 Masks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 14:31 Comments || Top||

#10  ^😢
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/28/2020 14:36 Comments || Top||

#11  Must be the only ones on our block to have Jewish COVID-19 Masks.

Darwin always wins. Should it come to that point, Besoeker, you and Mrs. Besoeker will be the ones who survive, not those wearing the cheap and useless Made In China ones.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2020 16:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The unspeakable, duplicitous cowardice of the Republicans in Congress
[American Thinker] While there are a few exceptions who need to be celebrated — Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz, and Jim Jordan, to name the most prominent of the heroes — the rest of the Republicans in Congress are abject cowards. So anxious to go along to get along with the establishment they were oh, so comfortable with, they have been and are willing to betray their constituents to regain their access to power and money. Forget representing the people; they represent themselves.

President Trump is the best man for the party to come along since Reagan, and they are nearly all ready to throw him under the bus. It is disgusting. No conservative should ever again donate a dime to any of the traitors who claim to hold conservative values. Very few of them do. Even McConnell of the Senate and McCarthy of the House are working to undermine Trump's legitimate attempt to expose the massive election fraud that took place on November 3.

Do these traitorous Republicans think we have short memories? That we will forget or not notice who among them is not fighting for the landslide victory that Trump clearly won? There are volumes of evidence that prove beyond all doubt that the Democrats cheated in the swing states. The left denies it; our Judiciary, including the Supreme Court, is complicit in the crime of stealing the election. They too are cowards.

John Roberts should never have been elevated to chief justice; he is clearly a politically motivated hacktivist, not a constitutionalist. He should admit his bias and resign. He is a disgrace to the Court; so are the three justices President Trump successfully got onto the Court. Not one of them has had the courage to stand up for what is right regarding the election fraud. Each of them is a profound disappointment to every conservative who supported their confirmation to the court. A.G. Barr has been an enormous disappointment. Perhaps he was installed by Trump traitors to do what he did — nothing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 11:08 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They should all be drinking from steaming cuspidors.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 11:16 Comments || Top||

#2  What, you expect people who've built small fortunes out of playing kabuki for 30 or 40 years running to close up the theatre?

This is our professional political class. It's what they do.

Even if they wanted to roll up the show and decamp to the territories, they couldn't: their kids are all in the same schools and prepping for the same elite colleges and the same employers and the same law schools.

It's a self-perpetuating class, by design. Like sharks perpetually on the hunt, they keep gorging, or they die.

Posted by: Vinegar Wittlesbach4791 || 12/28/2020 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  From Lin Wood regarding Chief Justice Roberts who was on Epstein's Island with Bill Clinton:

[Lin Wood's Twitter] In discussing @realDonaldTrump in phone conversation in 8/19, Justice John Roberts stated that he would make sure “the mother f#*ker would never be re-elected.”

Roberts engaged in phone conversations with Justice Stephen Breyer discussing how to work to get Trump voted out.

*****

Yes. This indicates Chief Justice Roberts is a part of the massive election fraud that took place in November, insuring the fix at the Supreme Court would be in.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/28/2020 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  i wonder why they had a cultural revolution in China all those years ago, hmmmmmm
Posted by: 746 || 12/28/2020 15:57 Comments || Top||

#5  What are people complaining about a rigged election for when the Dems have the GOP backing them up all the way?
Posted by: Clem || 12/28/2020 20:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Use of the term 'RINO' says it all. Nothing new here.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/28/2020 23:37 Comments || Top||


How Nancy Pelosi could lose the speakership to Kevin McCarthy
[American Thinker] Is karma going to come calling for Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats? I know that it sounds crazy, yet another improbable scenario in a season when our hopes have been dashed repeatedly after hearing predictions that a stolen presidential election would be rectified in the courts. But the scenario that follows is far from impossible, given House rules for voting in person, the tiniest House of Representatives majority (9 votes) in decades, the deep ideological split within the Democrats (downplayed or ignored by the partisan media) and the fading lucidity of Nancy Pelosi.

Mike Lillis and Scott Wong of The Hill point out that
...lawmakers must be present on the House floor to cast their vote for Speaker, precluding the option for members to vote remotely, as many have done throughout the pandemic. [emphasis added]

This differs from the rules under which House members have been voting since COVID became a factor. Matt Margolis of PJ Media explains:
While House members can vote by proxy due to emergency rules adopted in May to protect members from getting and spreading COVID-19, but, as The Hill reports, "the proxy-voting rule expires with the new Congress, requiring lawmakers to be in the Capitol in person if they want to participate in the Jan. 3 floor vote for Speaker."

New rules governing the 117th Congress happen after the vote for speaker.

House Democrats have been taking advantage of this proxy-voting rule in significant numbers. On December 18, nearly 90 Democrats voted by proxy.

Lillis and Wong point out that 2 years ago, Pelosi lost the votes of 15 House Democrats, enough to deny her the speakership this time around, and this time there will be defections:
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 11:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Ebbealet Elmomotch4880 || 12/28/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ #1 of course u tube refused to connect, bless their little hearts
Posted by: 746 || 12/28/2020 11:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Anything's possible in a year the Buffalo Bills make the NFL playoffs.
Posted by: Raj || 12/28/2020 12:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Will no one rid us of this pestilent priest skank?
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Hatrack1235 || 12/28/2020 13:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Is that the video you intended, Ebbealet Elmomotch4880? I just copied the Embed offered, rather than trying to do the code myself.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2020 17:19 Comments || Top||


Year End Prediction Humor
By NN2N1

Given the way 2020 has gone, any of us can predict just as good as the so-called experts. So why not really go deep and have some fun.
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Please be gentle this is my 1st article posting....
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IF Team China-Harris's latest keeps office, and their voter machine programs can keep a Socialist-Democrat (SD) House majority beyond 2022 Mid terms.

The NOW USSA Economy will tank with about 24% of the USA unemployed and almost 47% below poverty levels.

Due to increased Liberal and (SD) spending coupled with lower incomes there will be lower tax revenues being collected.

The USA will be the largest national debt holder owing $31+ Trillion to the world. The USSA will owe more than the USSA owns of itself. The USSA dollar will trade at 5 cents on the dollar and will be forced to go bankrupt.

To cover the now $31+ Trillion in National Debt .
The USSA will surrender/sell/trade off all OCONUS territories and properties to the Chinese and other countries. Alaska will be bought by Russia or Canada. Cuba will acquire GITMO as gift from Russia or China.

NYC having collapsed and in borough to borough street to street civil war. The UN will move to Hawaii or AN Azores Island, now owned by China.

The now turned Social-Capitalist Chinese Gov. being the richest country will purchase controlling interests in Oil, Rare Earth and shipping companies and then control the prices and allotments.

There will be a seasonal food and resource panics and GAS prices be above $4.50 a gallon due in part to the Socialist-Democrat(SD) Oil/Fuel tax of $1 per gallon and general 5 year plan failures.

The US Auto industry will collapse and be replaced by now owned China Imports cars.

Banks will Panic as the highest bankruptcy rates ever hits.

Foreclosure rates will start. Then the USSA SD's will step in and take control of the Housing industry and all ownership. The USSA Housing CZAR having taken control will start assigning persons to homes as they see fit.

BLM will demand more $1M homes be assigned to them, in what will be called Housing Reparations.

ANTI-FA will be rounded up and put on trial to garner public support and as deflection as needed.

Obama and old, has-been, Liberal actors seeking face time will be back telling us they were right about Climate Cold, Climate Warming, Climate Change, Solar Minimum, Solar Power and Electric cars.

When electric cars and solar power do not live up to expectations, after making the right people $$B, it will be blamed on the old USA man-made CO2 levels still blocking the sunlight. This despite China using and producing even more fossil fuels like coal than before (which will censured by the USSA Social-Media Czars).

CCP-tube, Noogle and Butt-book will delete and report all posters of any research materials and reports of lower birthrates and dramatic increases in birth deformities caused by the Covid-19 VAX as they start to circulate.

A NEW virus that for some unexplained reason is only regional and only genetically eliminates certain central African area populations, which China will arrive to help and then colonize those areas over the next 10 years.

The Book "1984" and all references will be deleted, so as to not provide public insight to future planning and agenda items.

I would love to here any other predictions.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/28/2020 07:25 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh my, NN2N1 — you are definitely plumbing the depths of the possibilities! But well thought through — it needs to be done, and without emoting on the subject.

My thoughts, worth what you just paid for them:
I think we will see a serious bifurcation in how the states approach things, and which states eagerly comply with the demands of a Democratic federal government versus which states fight tooth and nail or ignore the new laws and mandates as much as possible. As a result, the US Supreme Court will repeatedly have to make public stances on subjects certain of them would no doubt prefer to ignore.

I think those states, numbering 26 after the November election, that have Republican majorities in both houses of the legislature plus a Republican governor will continue to clean up their voter rolls and voting processes. They will redistrict carefully to accommodate their increased number of representatives in the House as a result of the 2020 census — because the US Supreme Court ruled that only citizens can be counted for the purpose of redistricting. If I understand correctly, both New York State and California will lose representatives in the House due to significant population shifts, while Florida and Texas will gain. This will make the 2022 election even riskier for the Democrats than it currently appears, especially if the 2008/2010 pattern is followed.

I expect a bifurcation at the family/community level, too. Home schooling is anticipated to be up significantly in the new semester, though what that means in real numbers I don’t know. But even my sister-in-law, the one married to my computer professor baby brother, has announced that next semester she will be homeschooling their two daughters, aged 11 and 13, though it will mean she has to give up the idea of working for the duration — but as she was not deemed essential, I imagine she has not gone in to the office for quite a while anyway. And as my sister-in-law, despite a Masters in social work, is decidedly conservative, I expect her daughters’ education to move in a different direction than they’ve endured in public school — and as the girls are quite bright, I imagine they’ll move much more quickly and deeply than they had in their public school classes, knowledge and an approach they will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

If the economy does indeed crash, a lot of high school kids who had planned to go straight to college will choose work or trade school instead. This will have the two-fold effect of keeping them out of the seething cauldron of Progessivism that so many colleges and universities have become, while forcing them to deal with the economic and social realities of the adult world, a shock of cold water to the little dears which will force unexpected maturation. So those that do go on to college later will be more mature and more sophisticated when they arrive, and therefore considerably less likely to believe the nonsense their professors tell them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2020 18:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Great article. I completely agree The USSA is already the solar system's largest national debt holder. What are we going to do when people don't believe in the dollar anymore?
Posted by: jpal || 12/28/2020 18:46 Comments || Top||

#3  The Chinese already own a large chunk of California.

Fracking is (was) one of our last best hopes for maintaining some degree of control over our fate.

The best path is the one our globalist elite can't even imagine as a possibility: making our own stuff. Growing our own food. Serving our own communities.

Saving MUCH more and shifting what we do spend toward high value-added goods and services that are NOT cheap, disposable or fungible but of exceptional or enduring quality.

Living healthier lives focused more on building strong families, solid communities and a superior culture.

Could anything be more threatening to our oligarchs than the above vision of a proud, largely self-sufficient, non-consumerist and non-Woke American heartland?

Posted by: Lionel Ebbeaper4939 || 12/28/2020 20:05 Comments || Top||


Big Tech Writes Its Ticket to the White House
[Washington Free Beacon] Silicon Valley played an integral role in propelling Joe Biden to the White House. He raked in uncounted millions from liberal tech billionaires such as Netflix's Reed Hastings, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, and Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs; their employees shelled out $5 million more.

As Biden takes office, the techies want what they paid for. Reuters reports that executives at top firms like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are gunning for jobs at the Departments of Defense, State, Justice, and Commerce and also eyeing influential posts at the Federal Trade Commission and beyond.

They want two things: lucrative federal contracts and less scrutiny than they’ve gotten over the past four years, as President Donald Trump has made their bias against conservatives front-page news. The Department of Justice's antitrust inquiry into big tech has already garnered bipartisan backing, including from a group of state attorneys general who have filed their own suit.

A Biden administration could make all of that go away. And it could ignore altogether these firms' obsequious dealings with Communist China.

That explains the rush to fill seats: It’s unlikely that the techies moving into the Biden administration will check their business relationships at the door. Each hire is another pressure point for Silicon Valley’s most powerful to exploit.

This is hardly a problem unique to Democrats—you just hear about it less when they’re in the White House. This sort of revolving door was considered outrageous in the George W. Bush administration, when Democrats and the media harped relentlessly on Dick Cheney’s ties to Halliburton and charged that he was in the pocket of Big Oil. They raised the same ruckus when Trump appointed Exxon chief Rex Tillerson as his first secretary of state.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 00:35 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Govt 4 Sale
Republic of Ho's
Posted by: Jiggs Wittlesbach4497 || 12/28/2020 2:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Its been an oligarchy for decades, its just that the perps don't even care about hiding it anymore.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2020 4:46 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Precisely! Pres. Trump has shown us there's more than one road to Rio. The oligarchy hates him for exposing it.

Strange, not a word about election or election process cheating from Bill & Melinda, Zuck, or Bezos. Nothing from the captains of the big box stores, Intelligence Community sleuths, DoJ, FBI, or the Barons of Wall Street. Sort of like it never really happened.

Meanwhile, Beijing smiles. Strange, very strange.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 5:35 Comments || Top||

#4  30 years in the making.

Thank the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas and now of course the Xiden Family.
Posted by: Don Vito Stalin1676 || 12/28/2020 11:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama...and then they tried to nominate another Bush and another Clinton? I was ready to vote for a fence post instead of either one of those.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/28/2020 14:43 Comments || Top||


Here's How a Republican Could End up Speaker of the House Instead of Nancy Pelosi
A fun hypothetical. Key date is the January 3rd floor vote for which the Representatives must be present in person for their vote to count.
[PJMedia] While House members can vote by proxy due to emergency rules adopted in May to protect members from getting and spreading COVID-19, but, as The Hill reports, "the proxy-voting rule expires with the new Congress, requiring politicians to be in the Capitol in person if they want to participate in the Jan. 3 floor vote for Speaker."

New rules governing the 117th Congress happen after the vote for speaker.

House Democrats have been taking advantage of this proxy-voting rule in significant numbers. On December 18, nearly 90 Democrats voted by proxy.

This means that candidates for speaker of the House must receive a majority of the votes cast in person to be elected speaker. Democrats already have a thin majority of 222 seats following the 2020 election, and three moderate Democrats say they don’t intend to vote for Pelosi when the vote takes place on January 3. In addition, several Democrats have health conditions that have kept them from the Capitol in 2020. It would only take a small number of Democrats being exposed to COVID-19 prior to the vote for Pelosi to potentially be in trouble.

Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) believes it’s a real possibility that Republicans could outnumber Democrats for the vote, and the top Republican in the House, Kevin McCarthy
...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's...
, could be elected speaker.

"Let’s say, just theoretically, we had six or eight people out with COVID and the Republicans have none. They probably could elect McCarthy," Yarmuth told The Hill.

Another anonymous House Democrat believes Pelosi losing reelection due to absent Democrats is a real possibility. "Obviously, the concern is that with 435 people going all over the country, it’s hard to imagine that not one of us will have the virus on January 3."
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Isn't McCarthy thought of as some kind of RINO? Would it be just an illusion of balance?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/28/2020 3:52 Comments || Top||

#2  McCarty's better than the alternative and has been squeaking correctly lately
Posted by: Frank G || 12/28/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Pure fantasy and click bait. Procedural rules do not apply to Democrats and Republicans seem to accept that notion.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/28/2020 7:09 Comments || Top||

#4  OK for step 1.
Then when Trump/Spence term expires but The Biden Pretendership is not certified by the Electoral College, you have Acting President Pelosi McCarthy.

As one meme has it: "Wait until 2020 turns 21 and starts to drink"
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/28/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Merc, if that happens, you win my new Christmas $25. Home Depot gift card and a tearful man-hug.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Lot of "Ifs" would have to be satisfied, but fun to think about. McCarthy seems far less wobbly than Lindsey G.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/28/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Lindsey G is so wobbly he makes jello look like granite.by comparison.
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 12/28/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Re:#5: I appreciate the thought, B., but a) Home Depot is on my she-it list for incompetence and b) I left San Francisco to get away from that she-it.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/28/2020 14:16 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Perhaps we'll just forego the man-hug as well :-)
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2020 14:20 Comments || Top||


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Instant Covid Relief - Plop Plop Fizz Fizz Oh What a Relief It Is !
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The drug that gives 'instant immunity' to coronavirus? UK trials new antibody therapy that can stop people who have been exposed to COVID becoming ill and it could save MILLIONS of lives across the globe
  • AstraZeneca‘s AZD7442 would offer immediate and long-term protection to patients when it would be too late to offer a vaccine

  • It could be given as an emergency treatment to hospital inpatients, care home residents and university students to help reduce the spread of the virus

  • Scientists from the University College London Hospitals NHS (UCLH) have injected ten people with the drug
Posted by: ee green || 12/28/2020 03:30 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is known as passive immunization. It's been used for (almost) 200 year. In the specific case of covid - it's what they gave to Trump.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/28/2020 7:57 Comments || Top||

#2  The FDA will sit on this one until Pres. Harris is re-elected.

Can't have hope springing eternal and all that.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/28/2020 9:10 Comments || Top||

#3  They have tested it on ten volunteers, and hope to work up to 1,200 for the next round. This isn’t close to being market ready. I suppose, though, that any hospital with a hematology lab and a centrifuge could spin off some of the stuff from blood taken from a Covid survivor and be good to go.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2020 13:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Wonder if their fire policy is up to date.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/28/2020 15:43 Comments || Top||

#5  I will gargle with warm salt water....thank you very much grandma.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 12/28/2020 19:39 Comments || Top||

#6  This is known as passive immunization. It's been used for (almost) 200 year.

Two hundred years? Jeez, Louise! This is the 21st century. Can't we have little nanobot submarines that swim in our bloodstream and hunt invading viruses? Also, Raquel Welch in a white jumpsuit.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/28/2020 20:20 Comments || Top||

#7  I want a one-horse pony
Posted by: Veruca Biden || 12/28/2020 21:20 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
University of Michigan: PC Vocabulary for Attendees 2021 Edition
[NationalFile] PC WORD BAN: University of Michigan Claims Words ‘Picnic,’ ‘Brown Bag’ Are Offensive

In yet another round of politically correct ‘word burning,’ the University of Michigan has once again re-written history to facilitate its burning desire to socially engineer students
Posted by: ee green || 12/28/2020 08:21 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


AMC Theater - Anti American Media Corporation - You Decide *
[ToddStarnes] AMC Theater Orders Police to Remove Disabled Child Who Can’t Wear Face Mask.

The video shows the manager of the AMC Theater in Jacksonville, North Carolina banning a disabled child from entering the theatre.

Family members were masked up. However, the child, who was in a baby stroller and is non-verbal, was not wearing a mask.

She reportedly has a condition that precludes her from wearing either a mask or a face shield.
Posted by: ee green || 12/28/2020 03:43 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AMC is majority Chinese owned.

Wiki:
The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange; from 2012 to 2018, the Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group owned a majority stake in the company. Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners (also been making news lately) made a $600 million investment in AMC in September 2018, but the voting power of AMC shares is structured in such a way that Wanda Group still controls the majority of AMC's board of directors.
Posted by: Hupolurt the Fat3405 || 12/28/2020 15:52 Comments || Top||

#2  BTW, all these private equity funds seem to be wholly entangled with the Chinese. Billions are made or lost with a slight shift of the political winds.
Posted by: Hupolurt the Fat3405 || 12/28/2020 15:55 Comments || Top||



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