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Caribbean-Latin America
Argentina's Fernandez plans election run against Macri
Ol' Spackleface is back
[Al-Rooters] Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner intends to run for the office again this year, two sources close to left-leaning politician told Reuters, the strongest indication yet that the populist leader will look to mount a challenge to incumbent Mauricio Macri.

Fernández, who has yet to formally announce herself as a candidate in the elections in October, would make boosting consumer purchasing power a focus, the sources said, a counter to Macri's austerity push that has dented his popularity.

The election run, if confirmed, would make Fernández the first and most high-profile challenger to Macri, who is expected to run for a second term but whose leadership has faced heavy criticism after rampant inflation last year and a falling economy hit voters hard.

A Macri versus Fernández battle would likely dominate the election process in what will be a major crossroads for Argentina's economic and political future: a choice between Macri's IMF-backed economic reforms or a return to Peronism.

Fernandez - who led the country from 2007 through 2015 and is now a senator - is Macri's arch political rival and is among his main critics from within the country's Peronist movement.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2019 07:18 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Hey ,she had the prosecutor who was going to accuse her of treason,vis a vis,Iran, murdered.
Posted by: imoyaro || 02/03/2019 23:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Admits She Has to 'Unlearn' Her Anti-Semitic Ways
[Town Hall] Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has come under fire for anti-Semitic comments in the past. During an interview with on "The Daily Show," Omar explained how she never tried to be anti-Semitic but she understands how her comments could be deemed anti-Semitic. The most interesting aspect: Omar compares her being blind to her anti-Semitism to white people who don't understand they have "white privilege."

There are so many things wrong with this interaction.

1) If Omar was truly interested in learning how to change her ways and her thinking, she would come out and say, "I'm an anti-Semite but I don't want to be. Can you please help me?" She would be upfront and honest about it. She wouldn't be so wishy washy about where she stands. And she wouldn't make an excuse for why she thinks the way she does.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2019 07:23 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Admits She Has to 'Unlearn' Showing Her Anti-Semitic Ways

FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2019 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Omar explained how she never tried to be anti-Semitic

"I'm a naturally pig-ignorant bigoted anti-Semite Somali brother-f*cker. Don't judge me"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2019 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  "white privilege"...give me an f'in break. Now, if ihop were to offer 10% off, then....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/03/2019 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Some are naturally pig-ignorant, but the rest of us have to work hard to attain that degraded level of knowledge.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/03/2019 16:15 Comments || Top||


Schiff spreader breaks down: Another Democrat Trump-Russia Story Blows Up
BLUF:
[Townhall] The Senate Intelligence Committee has obtained phone records showing that President Trump was not one of the blocked numbers his son Donald Trump Jr. called before and after the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, CNN first reported and ABC News later confirmed.

The big picture: Trump Jr. made phone calls to two blocked numbers the same day he spoke with Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, who helped set up a meeting three days later with a Kremlin-linked lawyer claiming to have dirt on Hillary Clinton. He made another phone call to a private number several hours after the meeting. There has long been speculation that the calls were to his father, and that then-candidate Trump had advanced knowledge of the meeting ‐ an allegation he has denied.

Related: PJ Media - Gowdy Roasts Rep. Adam Schiff After His Trump Jr. Conspiracy Theory Goes Down in Flames
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2019 03:21 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Amy bets that at least one of the blocked numbers was Kimberly Guilfoyle?
Posted by: Warthog || 02/03/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Any Bets..dang the old fingers
Posted by: Warthog || 02/03/2019 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  I once had a patient whose life was saved by a manure spreader. He was driving 55 mph down a county highway, came over a rise in the road & on the other side was a fully loaded manure spreader slowly crossing the highway. He could neither stop in time nor avoid hitting the spreader at nearly full spreed, T-bone fashion.
Between his car's air bags and the tons of manure flying in a directions (dissipating his kinetic energy) he survived with minimal injury. Local rescue squad did have to wade through knee deep fresh manure to get to him.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/03/2019 17:28 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure the Aromatherapy helped him
Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2019 17:48 Comments || Top||


Colorado Senate Passes Bill Nixing Electoral College in Favor of Popular Vote
[BREITBART] The Democratic-majority Colorado state Senate passed a bill this week that would give the state’s electoral votes in presidential elections to the candidate who wins the popular vote instead of the Electoral College.

Colorado’s Senate passed the bill in a 19-16 vote Tuesday along party lines.
This will change the first time the political tables turn, which they will.
The bill would mandate that the state’s members of the Electoral College vote for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.

Under current state law, the state’s electoral college members cast their vote for the candidate who wins the election in Colorado.

The legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Mike Foote (D-Lafayette), would have allowed Colorado to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact with 11 other states and the District of Columbia.

"This really isn’t a red versus blue idea. This is about making sure that the president of the United States is elected by the entire nation, not just a handful of ’battleground states’ that get to decide our presidential elections under the current system," Foote said of the bill in a statement. "All of Colorado’s voters should be heard, regardless of whether or not we are considered a battleground state."

Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2019 01:27 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Imagine that!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 02/03/2019 1:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, if you were to combine this with effectively enforced voter ID ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2019 3:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Does that include ballots cast under electoral fraud?

What if the vote is about 50-50 and Colorado's vote could tip the balance either way? What if several states went this route and they were all waiting on each other?
Posted by: gorb || 02/03/2019 5:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Then there is no need for states. They're just inconvenient, inefficient, and redundant administrative units to a federal system owned and dominated by 10 or so major metropolitan areas. We could probably consolidate it down to maybe two dozen regional districts.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2019 6:18 Comments || Top||

#5  And switch to proportional representation, 2Pk? Otherwise...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2019 6:40 Comments || Top||

#6  We could probably consolidate it down to maybe two dozen regional districts. Posted by Procopius2k

Independent provinces? What are you suggesting, another British invasion and attempt at land and natural resource grabbing ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2019 6:49 Comments || Top||

#7  ...nah, just taking the logic to the next level given the socialist/Left lust for power and micro-management. The historically illiterate have no use for 'lessons learned' on the scale the founder did.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2019 7:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Well you are correct, the established FEMA regions are indeed 'the next level.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2019 7:18 Comments || Top||

#9  IN other words, Colorado just gave its populace the middle finger and handed over their electoral representation to California and New York.

So Candidate A wins the aggregate vote, fraud and all, by 10,000, but Candidate B wins Colorado by 30,000. And you're giving the electoral votes to Candidate A, counter to what the people of Colorado wanted? I smell a lawsuit and a deleayed outcome.

Or Candidate A wins the aggregate vote, but absent these give-away laws, Candidate B wins the electoral vote by, say, 30, but with the shenanigans they lose by 2.

Can you say constitutional crisis?
Posted by: Glolush Whusotch4899 || 02/03/2019 8:05 Comments || Top||

#10  from the article: "If enough states sign onto the compact, it would change the outcome of presidential elections by awarding all electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote.

But the bill is not likely to become law unless the Colorado House approves and enough states agree to the compact."

So, is the Colorado House likely to approve?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/03/2019 9:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Currently (Wiki) the Colorado House is 63.1% D.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/03/2019 9:24 Comments || Top||

#12  Who determines the "popular" vote?
How long will that take?
Do the votes of Coloradans count?

This should be the end of the federal republic.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/03/2019 9:45 Comments || Top||

#13  ..it is.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2019 10:28 Comments || Top||

#14  "All NONE of Colorado’s voters should be heard, regardless of whether or not we are considered a battleground state."

Fixed. As Glolush noted this basically disenfranchises the CO voters. No candidates will visit or give a crap about CO, instead focusing exclusively on more populous states like NY, CA...
I think they are going to get a nasty lesson as to why the electoral collage is needed.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/03/2019 11:13 Comments || Top||

#15  Okay, candidate X is 10,000 votes ahead in all the other states.....candidate Y is 12,000 votes ahead in Colorado....who wins?

The favorite of the progressive Democrats.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/03/2019 11:22 Comments || Top||

#16  And so starts the second Civil War, I hope patriots make note of every elected official that has voted for these and makes them pay for their full devotion to their ideals of destroying the US.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/03/2019 11:40 Comments || Top||

#17  If this is in force then it’s going to be fun when Trump wins the 2020 popular vote and CO turns red in spite of them voting almost exclusively blue...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/03/2019 11:55 Comments || Top||

#18  So, then, is it OK if states whose populations chafe under the rule of New Yorkers and Californians secede? Or are we really setting ourselves up for another civil war?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/03/2019 14:23 Comments || Top||

#19  Colorado wil break apart. And the country follows. Like logs on my log splitter.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/03/2019 16:20 Comments || Top||

#20  The California Plague has finally killed Colorado and given its electoral votes to California.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 02/03/2019 18:06 Comments || Top||

#21  Meet your future rulers - half of the U.S. population lives in these counties:
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/03/2019 19:27 Comments || Top||

#22  Modern siege warfare can reduce their population in mere weeks.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/03/2019 20:06 Comments || Top||


Booker calls for legalizing marijuana as he launches 2020 bid
[THEHILL] Democratic Sen. Cory Spartacus Booker
U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone...
(N.J.) is calling for the legalization of marijuana as part of his 2020 presidential campaign.

Booker discussed criminal justice reform and the need for "changing our drug laws," including "ending [the] prohibition against marijuana" on the radio-syndicated "Tom Joyner Morning Show" on Friday.

"We do not have equal justice under the law," Booker said of the disproportionate rate at which people in the black community are incarcerated under the country's drug laws. "I believe in redemption."

"This is a cancer on the soul of our country," he continued. "Too many of our children are being shuttled into cages."

The interview marked his first since announcing his bid for the presidency on Twitter early Friday, which also marked the first day of Black History Month.

Booker said in the interview that he chose to publicly discuss his run first with Joyner, the founder of the website Black America Web, because of what the host and his show mean "to so many people in this country."

Last year, Booker introduced the Marijuana Justice Act, which would eliminate marijuana's status as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

The move would also require federal courts to expunge the records of Americans who have prior marijuana convictions related to use or possession.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's already high if he thinks he has a chance. What a joke
Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2019 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I would have agreed with you Frank, until November 4th of 2008.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2019 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Just think how much easier it would be to vote for Booker if you were stoned out of your mind.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2019 10:52 Comments || Top||

#4  if marijuana were legal and part D of Medicare were free it would mean 'free marijuana' for all
Posted by: lord garth || 02/03/2019 12:03 Comments || Top||

#5  "I am Spark-a-blunt..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/03/2019 12:05 Comments || Top||


VA Gov. Stands By Abortion After Birth Comments
[MRCTV.ORG] Governor Ralph Coonman Northam
Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespiea racist, but then, don't they all?...
says he doesn’t have any regrets about the controversial statements he made on abortion Wednesday.
I support post-natal abortion to age 23!
"Do you regret what you said yesterday or the way you said it?" a news hound asked Northam in regards to comments he previously made on a radio station.
"Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.
Yowza."

"No I don't," Northam replied at a presser Thursday. "I appreciate the question. I'm a physician. I'm also the governor. But when I'm asked questions a lot of times it is put in the context of a being a physician, again realizing you know, how we approach, how we manage patients, how we offer advice and counsel. So no, I don't have any regrets."
For what is man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way
     --Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny © James A. Bland 1878.

Earlier in the conference, Northam positioned the topic as one of "reproductive health."
"You cain't tell a wo-man whut to do wif da body, Mister Bones!"
"Virginia Democrats are on the side of ensuring women have access to the healthcare they need. There is a fundamental difference between us and the Republicans, in what we believe on a woman's right to choose. We believe politicians, most of whom are men, should not be making decisions about women's choices for their reproductive health."
"But whut if de baby be a girl, Mister Tambo?"
Speaking on WTOP’s "Ask The Governor" Wednesday, Northam defended his support of a bill proposed in the Virginia Assembly that would legalize elective abortions on demand through the ninth month of pregnancy all the way up until the moment of birth.
My preference is for 23 years after that. You never know how them little boogers is gonna turn out. They start turnin' bad, just take a coat hanger to them.
When asked to respond to public outrage over the proposal, Northam seemed to suggest that not only can babies be terminated up until the moment they’re born, but that full-term, born-alive infants can be left to die without medical care if the mother wishes.
Why not? Roman fathers could kill their children up until the age of adultery. Rather than aborting them, they set them out along public highways to die of exposure or to be raised in slavery.

PS He's on the terriblevision right now denying everything.He did, however, confess to dressing up like Michael Jackson and blackening his face with shoe polish for a dance contest.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fred's on a roll :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2019 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds as if he hopes that being really, really in favor of killing babies will trump his being such a racist. Time will tell.
Posted by: Tom || 02/03/2019 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  This is the story being obscured by Blackfacegate.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/03/2019 18:12 Comments || Top||


Gov. Ralph Northam admits he was in 1984 yearbook photo showing figures in blackface, KKK hood
[WASHINGTONPOST] A photograph on Gov. Ralph Coonman Northam
Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?...
(D)’s medical school yearbook page shows a man wearing blackface next to another person in Ku Klux Klan robe.

The image is in a 1984 yearbook from Eastern Virginia Medical School on a page with other photos of Northam and personal information about the future governor.

Northam, a pediatric neurologist, graduated from the Norfolk medical school in 1984 after earlier graduating from Virginia Military Institute.

The page is labeled Ralph Shearer Northam, along with pictures of him in a jacket and tie, casual clothes and alongside his restored Corvette.

It shows two people, one in plaid pants, bow tie and black faced, and the other in full Klan robes. Both men appear to be holding beer cans.

The person in black face is smiling. Beneath the photo is a writeup about Northam listing his alma mater, noting that his interest is pediatrics and giving a quote: "There are more old drunks than old doctors in this world so I think I’ll have another beer."
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Alinsky them! Never stop.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2019 8:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Lt gov in VA is Justin Fairfax who is further left than Northam and just as pro Abortion as Northam and who has worked for slimeball John Edwards
Posted by: lord garth || 02/03/2019 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  So?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2019 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  If Northam were to resign, he would be succeeded by Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. Fairfax, a descendant of slaves

All the qualifications the Slimes needs. But this is old news, right? The Gov later denied he was in the photo. Or is that also old news?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/03/2019 12:11 Comments || Top||

#5  The news reports say the revealing photo was offered by a concerned citizen. Immediately after the enormous focus on unfettered abortion was created by the governors comments on post birth abortion. The massive moral outrage tsunami that was building had to be stopped at all costs and the idiot governor had to be removed post haste. Am I the only one who sees the hand of the left in this, and why the outrage has lasted in the media so long?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/03/2019 12:52 Comments || Top||

#6  To me anyway, that picture is not sufficient evidence that the man hates anybody and is not sufficient cause to demand his resignation. But then, he is a Democrat so they can do whatever they want with one of their own and I have no sympathy. Enjoy your political correctness, Dr. Coat Hanger.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/03/2019 14:48 Comments || Top||

#7  I would cut him more slack if he wasn't such a sleazy underhanded racist-card-playing asshole democrat. Own petard and all that. He basically said Ed Gillespie was a racist.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2019 15:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Are These Ralph Northam's Blackface Pants?




Well, I never loaned anyone my pants.

Interesting coinkidink..?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/03/2019 15:59 Comments || Top||

#9  I love it when the Dems go autophagic. Like Stalin’s purges
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/03/2019 16:26 Comments || Top||

#10  I think I found the video of the "Coon Man" doing the Moon Walk, even has something about the Russians in it...:



Posted by: Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 || 02/03/2019 17:48 Comments || Top||

#11  A tip from a 'concerned citizen' helps a reporter land the scoop of a lifetime

Funny how that can happen.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/03/2019 18:27 Comments || Top||

#12  And more: Racist photo tip came from ex-classmate angry with Northam's abortion remarks

"A far-right conservative website was reportedly tipped off about the racist photo on Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page by one of his former classmates.

A source from Big League Politics told the Washington Post the individual reached out because of "anger" over Northam's recent comments about a bill that would loosen restrictions on abortions.

“The revelations about Ralph Northam’s racist past were absolutely driven by his medical school classmate’s anger over his recent very public support for infanticide,” the unnamed source said."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/03/2019 20:23 Comments || Top||


Oprah's Spiritual Guru Running for President
[PJMEDIA] So's my cat, Barnhanuddin.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  David Geffen?

Or is it Oprah's "GF"?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/03/2019 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Eric "Steadman" Holder?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2019 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Marianne Williamson's only previous political initiative was in 2014 when she ran in the Democratic primary for a Congressional District in Los Angeles county when Henry Waxman retired from that seat. She got some big endorsements but finished 4th. After her loss she said,

“This conversation of a politics of conscience, a politics of the heart, is much bigger than any one woman winning a congressional seat. And if that woman loses, the conversation goes on. My losing the congressional seat is small; what’s big is the larger conversation… you impact the ethers, and that energy goes somewhere.”
Posted by: lord garth || 02/03/2019 9:03 Comments || Top||

#4  It's gonna be a freak show.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/03/2019 14:51 Comments || Top||


Bloomberg funding secret operation aimed at defeating Trump in 2020 — report
[IsraelTimes] Former New York City mayor’s team looking to make ’unprecedented’ and massive use of data to lay new groundwork for Democratic party.

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has reportedly put together a secret team aimed at unseating US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
in the 2020 presidential elections.

The businessman and Democratic political activist, who is worth about $40 billion, has provided hundreds of millions of dollars to a team focused on data collection and analysis, according to a report Thursday in The Atlantic.

The operation has been kept under wraps because not all details are finalized and there is a possibility Bloomberg will run for president himself in 2020, but when launched the operation would likely become the largest and most powerful political outfit in the US.

Bloomberg has long harbored dreams of becoming president, but is not expected to run if former US vice president Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
decides to join the race.

The political group Bloomberg is financing aims to utilize massive data collection on voters and compare it with consumer data and social media profiles to target new voters. The team’s end goal is to lay a new groundwork for the Democratic party, the report said.

A group of ten technology and political experts has been meeting secretly for months in Manhattan, headed by longtime Bloomberg political aides and Brynne Craig, a veteran of Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away...
’s campaign. Bloomberg does not sit in on the meetings, but is briefed afterwards, according to The Atlantic.

The team believes that private companies are more sophisticated when it comes to data collection and analysis than political operators and are looking to the private sector as a model.

Bloomberg’s spokespeople declined to comment on the report.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/03/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A group of ten technology and political experts...

OMG! He's hired experts. We're doomed.
Posted by: Matt || 02/03/2019 10:44 Comments || Top||

#2  This is supposed to be a secret?
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/03/2019 11:31 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Balad party leader: 'Israel treats us like Palestinians'
[Ynet] Balad party chairman Mtanes Shehadeh, elected Saturday to lead the party in the upcoming elections, said Israel treats Israeli Arabs like Palestinians, and thus Israelis shouldn't be surprised if Arabs identify as Palestinians.

Shehadeh referred to the party opening its Saturday meeting with the Palestinian anthem, and said they are "a part of the Palestinian people," adding that "the Israeli flag and anthem doesn't represent us (the Arab public), it is a part of the oppression we experience."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2019 09:06 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "It's just not fair. We identify as Paleostinians, we act like Paleostinians, and yet they continue to treat us as Paleostinians."
Posted by: SteveS || 02/03/2019 14:02 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Ouch. Truth hurts
Posted by: Frank G || 02/03/2019 14:49 Comments || Top||

#3  But the one thing Israeli Arabs really, really don’t want to experience is the joys of Palestinian rule, preferring the considerably less corrupt and more prosperous situation of life in the Jewish state.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/03/2019 15:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Farrakhan Says God Wants Black People To Have Their Own State
h/t Instapundit
[LidBlog] Farrakhan is acting crazy again. The Pastor of Putrid posted a short video on his Instagram account clipped from a 2015 interview on the Rock Newman radio show where he claims that God wants to segregate African Americans and Caucasians into separate American States.

Newman asks Farrakhan if it is still his goal and that of the Nation of Islam to have a separate state for Black People.
I'm sure it'll be economic and social success.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2019 02:16 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Breaking: GOD never spoke to Farrakhan.
Posted by: newc || 02/03/2019 2:50 Comments || Top||

#2  What about the other guy?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/03/2019 3:02 Comments || Top||

#3  This has been tried before, not sure how successful it is. Liberia
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 02/03/2019 3:52 Comments || Top||

#4  State of Entitlement maybe?
Posted by: gorb || 02/03/2019 5:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Liberia is but one highly successful black governance example. Others include Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, Haiti, The DRC, Angola, you know the rest.

In all seriousness, the insidious Farrakhan is correct on this one. Multiculturalism is a white man's invention. God split up the lot and gave everyone disparate tongues for good reason.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2019 6:46 Comments || Top||

#6  i'm sure the caucasion state should support the black state though.
Posted by: chris || 02/03/2019 7:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Give them Oregon.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 || 02/03/2019 8:10 Comments || Top||

#8  lets see.......white country : Norway for example
black country : Zimbabwe for example


just sayin'

Berserker said it right.....
Posted by: 746 || 02/03/2019 10:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Many places here in America they already have it: It's called a "state of nature..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/03/2019 11:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Maybe we could give 'em a city or two so they could practice a bit first.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/03/2019 11:43 Comments || Top||

#11  like Detroit
Posted by: 746 || 02/03/2019 11:44 Comments || Top||

#12  Maybe we could give 'em a city or two so they could practice a bit first.

Once the evil, racist gentrification in the Buckhead and downtown communities is outlawed, Atlanta would be sure pick. It's nearly devoid of 'blue eyed devils' right now.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2019 11:47 Comments || Top||

#13  Wakanda's just a plane ride away.
Posted by: charger || 02/03/2019 12:50 Comments || Top||

#14  got that right besoeker. east marietta is still pretty blue eyed but the shit from fulton is starting to come here and rob an steal
Posted by: chris || 02/03/2019 12:56 Comments || Top||

#15  He's got his own state...of mind.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/03/2019 14:00 Comments || Top||

#16  And I bet good money Farrakhan wants to be president of this new state.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/03/2019 14:16 Comments || Top||

#17  Brookhaven is awesome.
Posted by: Beavis || 02/03/2019 14:46 Comments || Top||

#18  Off pile...

An Anglophone lad on the MARTA,
Accosted, alas, by the Garda,
Grins, flashing his grille,
"I'll just chill here until
Cameroon has its own Magna Carta."
Posted by: Whavick Snaiper3151 || 02/03/2019 18:50 Comments || Top||



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