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-Land of the Free
In Dallas, Trump sticks up for ‘decent Americans' being labeled as racists or bigots
[Texas Tribune] President Donald Trump returned to George Floyd’s home state for the first time since he was killed, calling what happened in Minneapolis to Floyd a "disgrace" and pledging to push for reforms to policing nationwide while also slamming efforts to defund police departments.

Trump said at a meeting at the Gateway Church in Dallas that the "radical efforts to defund, dismantle and disband the police" are the wrong way to go and he’ll push in the opposite direction.

"We must invest more energy and resources in police training," Trump said. "We have to respect our police and take care of our police. They’re protecting us, and if they’re allowed to do their job, they’ll do a great job."
Too late for some cops.
Trump said he knows there are some "bad apples" in any line of work, but "I can tell you there are not too many of them in the police." Trump said he’s working on an executive order that would set standards for the use of force by police, including an emphasis on de-escalation tactics.

"We are going to make sure our police are well trained, perfectly trained, have the best equipment," Trump said.

But in his first trip to Texas since the coronavirus outbreak, Trump's message went beyond law enforcement. The White House billed the hour-long meeting as a discussion on how to help minority communities and improve opportunities for all Americans.
A real divider we got here!
Trump insisted he's been working on programs to help what he called the "forgotten men and women" of America since he took office. He pointed to criminal justice reforms he signed last year, increased funding for historically black colleges and universities under his administration and record low unemployment among black communities before COVID-19 hit the U.S.

"Americans are good and virtuous people," Trump said. "We have to work together to confront bigotry and prejudice wherever they appear, but we'll make no progress and heal no wounds by falsely labeling tens of millions of decent Americans as racists or bigots."
Posted by: Bobby || 06/12/2020 00:08 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm a baaaaad white person. Worse because I don't have a particle of white guilt in me. Whoever wants to call me a rayciss oppressor son of white privilege should be free to do so. I'm a prick and and SOB too if you catch my act under certain circumstances. I make no apologies.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2020 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Decency is very easy to weaponize against itself.

Perhaps "decency" is not what is needed now.
Posted by: charger || 06/12/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||


Britain
Anti-racism campaigners have called on the British government to remove statues of Mahatma Gandhi
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  First they came for cops doing their job ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2020 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Gandhi was a brute and a thug. Get that statue out if there, stat! /Sarc
Posted by: Clem || 06/12/2020 5:15 Comments || Top||

#3  The statue of Marx, a man who got 100 million killed, seems to be currently safe though.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/12/2020 5:19 Comments || Top||

#4  And from a dude who mooched off of a rich guy, Engels...figures.
Posted by: Clem || 06/12/2020 5:21 Comments || Top||

#5  No word on either Cromwell or Isambard Kingdom Brunell.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/12/2020 5:47 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Jay Inslee Laughs About Antifa's Rebellion in Seattle as He Demobilizes National Guard
[PJMEDIA] As antifa bandidos murderous Moslems have taken over six blocks of Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, calling it the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" or the "People’s Republic of Capitol Hill," Gov. Jay Inslee
...Governor of Washington state, failed candidate for the 2020 Dem presidential campaign, mainly because nobody outside the state and some inside had ever heard of him. He complained, complained, complained that the Trump administration wasn't doing enough to help the state, then returned an Army field hospital and 400 ventilators that didn't get used...
(D-Wash.) laughed about this open rebellion, saying he hadn’t heard about it. Inslee added that the National Guard is demobilizing, and his chief of staff suggested that even if an open rebellion had broken out on the streets of Seattle, it would be up to "local authorities" to fight it.

"Passing the buck" doesn’t even begin to cover the insanity of this "response."

A news hound asked Inslee about the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone during the governor’s presser on Wednesday, noting that the antifa bandidos murderous Moslems had shut down part of the city and were "not allowing people to come and go freely." He did not mention the fact that antifa had commandeered the Seattle Police East Precinct.

"That’s news to me. So, I’ll have to reserve any comment about it. I have not — I have not heard anything about that... from any credible source," Inslee said, with a chuckle. "Not that you’re not credible, it’s just before I espouse and opinion I should know of which I speak." He laughed again after giving this response.

If the governor of Washington has not heard about the open revolt taking place in the state’s largest city — in the Capitol Hill district, no less! — then he is utterly incompetent. But his next response proved equally insane.

The news hound responded with a follow-up question, asking whether or not Inslee would bring in the National Guard to open up the city when "protesters" had erected barricades to block streets.

"You know, that’s a hypothetical. Look, we’ve got to have safety. I’m sure that people will find a way to have public safety everywhere in the state, I’m confident of that," Inslee said. "The National Guard is demobilizing, over two-thirds of them are demobilized as of yesterday."

In other words, *wink* *nod* "I have no idea what’s happening." *cough* *cough* "I’m sure everyone will work it out.”
Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Don't let this crisis go to waste. Go there and take all the pictures you can because most Antifa members have probably congregated there.
Posted by: gorb || 06/12/2020 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  It's the commies in suits and ties that are the real threat.

Of course, their freakazoid minions still need to go, too.
Posted by: charger || 06/12/2020 2:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Back when I lived on Capitol Hill, the main entertainment was watching "Fred the Pretentious" (no relation) who'd parade up and down the street bare-chested with a pair of swords scabbarded over his back. Entertainment value of the Hill has seriously eroded these days.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/12/2020 8:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Section 3

No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
- 14th Amendment

Someone needs to provide the governor and mayor a copy of that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2020 8:44 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm surprised CNN hasn't run that Constitutional blurb. /sarc
Posted by: Clem || 06/12/2020 8:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Equal Protection and the Republican Form of Government go out with a whimper.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 06/12/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Nero fiddling as Rome burns...
Posted by: magpie || 06/12/2020 11:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Giving his voters what they want. Good and hard...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2020 13:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
US appeals court skeptical of bid by ex-Trump adviser to end criminal case
[YNet] - A U.S. appeals court on Friday appeared skeptical of the Justice Department's unprecedented effort to drop a criminal case against President Donald Trump's former adviser Michael Flynn, signaling no quick end to the politically charged prosecution.

U.S. Circuit Judge Karen Henderson, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, said the lower-court judge overseeing the case was not a "rubber stamp" and there was nothing wrong with U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan hearing arguments about whether to let the Justice Department drop the case.

Flynn twice pleaded guilty to the charge the Justice Department is now trying to drop.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2020 13:02 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy, but this is an extraordinary case.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/12/2020 13:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Flynn will be released before this reached Supreme Court review because the left won't expose Roberts for something less than the whole enchilada.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2020 14:46 Comments || Top||


#4  The appeals court has said it will return a decision on December 9. Seems like they are delaying things past election time to keep Flynn quiet prior to the election. What's the make-up of this court? In my non-lawyer mind, the case seems like a slam dunk no brainer. It also seems like they are trying to protect Sullivan rather than render justice to Flynn.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||

#5  clearly protecting the swamp creatures. Once the case is dismissed, the gag order on Flynn is lifted and he is free to tell his tale. That's what they are really worried about.
Posted by: Warthog || 06/12/2020 18:39 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Nailed it !
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2020 19:01 Comments || Top||


Exploited Again – Financial Contributions to Black Lives Matter are Being Funneled to Biden Campaign
[The Conservative Treehouse] Some smart sleuthing by Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters at The National Pulse shows the donations made to Black Lives Matter actually go to ActBlue. From there ActBlue takes those contributions and sends them forward to the Joe Biden Campaign.

After reaching the BLM homepage, which features a "Defund The Police" petition front and center, if a user chooses to donate, they’re rerouted to a site hosted by ActBlue and prompted with the message: "We appreciate your support of the movement and our ongoing fight to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy forever."

Joe Biden is the top beneficiary of the ActBlue’s fundraising efforts.

This means donations to Black Lives Matter are actually the primary funding mechanism for Joe Biden 2020; and that explains why national democrats (Pelosi) and the DNC have changed their position on BLM as an activist organization, and now embrace them openly.

The financial arrangement also further solidifies the purpose for BLM (Obama/Holder) to align with the AME Church network (Clyburn, Sharpton, et al) which facilitates the DNC agenda (Biden, Perez, et al).

The 2020 financial problem that was being faced by the Democrat National Committee was solved through the use of Black Lives Matter as a funding mechanism for the 2020 election. The more money the resistance movement can push into their BLM advocacy, the more money that actually flows into the DNC for 2020.

As of May 21st, ActBlue has donated $119,253,857 to the "Biden for President" effort.

It’s a smart workaround and provides a back-door for all of the Hollywood and social influence crowd to use. By supporting donations to Black Lives Matter, the leftist movement writ large is essentially funding the DNC. The BLM movement is simply a vessel for them to use and exploit.
Posted by: Clolutch Elmomoling5575 || 06/12/2020 00:36 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, but, but wasn't that always the plan ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2020 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  LBJ would've approved?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#3  It's big business. The largest source of the Dems money comes from ActBlue. Those who control the money, control the party. Open Secrets: Act Blue 2020 Election Cycle
2020 PAC Summary Data
Total Receipts $1,479,003,853
Total Spent $1,459,000,190
Date of last report April 30, 2020
Posted by: Clolutch Elmomoling5575 || 06/12/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#4  No wonder Black Lives Matter to the Dems...votes and money; otherwise not so much.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2020 15:10 Comments || Top||

#5  There is a pissed consumer URL for Dems who have buyer's remorse or are otherwise pissed with ActBlue. You can register your complaint with all the others that don't get answered.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2020 15:55 Comments || Top||


Nancy Pelosi: Trump to Blame for ‘Disproportionate’ Share of Minority Coronavirus Deaths
I personally have seen the ill-favored Orange Man sneaking among minority housing with a hypodermic needle full of coronaviri, jumping out from behind the bushes and jabbing innocent black and brown buttocks!
[BREITBART] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
(D-CA) chose a presser Thursday to blame President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
for the "disproportionate" number of minorities dying from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
Pelosi lamented "people of color" experienced a "disproportionate" casualty rate in the coronavirus pandemic because the president lacks a "strategic plan" for "testing, tracing, treating," and social distancing.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported the coronavirus outbreak has especially impacted racial minorities.

Pelosi said Americans must focus on social distancing as she, surrounded by guards, appeared before a protest against the death of George Floyd.

The House leader also claimed the United States is "not even close to what we should be doing on a daily basis" in regards to coronavirus testing.

Despite Pelosi’s claim, America is one of the leading countries in daily coronavirus testing in the world.

"The White House has not responded," the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat said.

Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pelosi lamented "people of color" experienced a "disproportionate" casualty rate in the coronavirus pandemic because the president lacks a "strategic plan" for "testing, tracing, treating," and social distancing.

Coming from the woman who can't even blather coherently.

If you're so smart Pelousi, why don't you just get on the task force and make some recommendations?
Posted by: gorb || 06/12/2020 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Damn, this is one awful person.
Posted by: Raj || 06/12/2020 0:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Wait until we get stats of new cases/deaths due to riots - Antifa wore masks, black looters didn't.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2020 1:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Antifa was just "following the science"...and of course, if there's a by-product of hiding one's face in a riot/criminal activity, then so be it.
Posted by: Clem || 06/12/2020 5:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Botox and alcohol-addled.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2020 16:29 Comments || Top||


Liberal Groups Endorse Plan to Expand Supreme Court to 11
[BREITBART] Several prominent Red Guards liberal groups are joining the push by some Democrats to expand the Supreme Court to eleven justices, a move designed to eliminate the Court’s current 5-4 conservative majority.

An open letter signed by several organizations backs a plan to expand the Court to eleven members:

The activist conservatives who control the Supreme Court are poised to trample existing rights, from reproductive freedom to LGBTQ rights — and to block any significant progressive legislation in the future on urgent crises from climate change to health care to gun safety. The Supreme Court threatens to make it virtually impossible for progressives to enact the progressive policies supported by a clear majority of Americans. This problem won’t go away on its own.

...

The fastest, most effective way to reverse the Republican theft of the Supreme Court and make the court representative of all Americans is to enact legislation increasing the size of the Court by at least two seats, and to quickly fill those seats with justices who will safeguard our democracy.
Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let's do that. And Trump can appoint another couple of conservatives by the time his tenure in office ends in another 9 years.
Posted by: gorb || 06/12/2020 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  They're always recycling stuff from the Thirties.
Posted by: charger || 06/12/2020 2:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Is there a plan to expand the electoral college enough for Illary to win?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/12/2020 5:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Chief Justice Roberts is a waste.
Posted by: Clem || 06/12/2020 5:25 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Yes, in a league with FBI Director Christopher Wray, Senator Chuck Schumer, and a half-dozen or so retired general officers... you pick.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2020 6:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Hoo boy. Talk about people re-arraigning stuff thet they don't know about.
Supreme Court justices do not merely sit on the supreme court; they also head up the US Cicuit Court system, to wit:
For the District of Columbia Circuit - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice
For the First Circuit - Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island)
For the Second Circuit - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice (Connecticut, New York, Vermont)
For the Third Circuit - Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice (Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virgin Island)
For the Fourth Circuit - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice (Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia)
For the Fifth Circuit - Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice (Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
For the Sixth Circuit - Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice (Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee)
For the Seventh Circuit - Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice (Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin)
For the Eighth Circuit - Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice (Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
For the Ninth Circuit - Elena Kagan, Associate Justice (Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Nevada, Northern Mariana Islands, Washington)
For the Tenth Circuit - Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice (Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming)
For the Eleventh Circuit - Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice (Alabama, Florida, Georgia)
For the Federal Circuit - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice.

Note that some sit in more than one circuit chair, in an attempt to divvy up the workload.

But then I'm fairly sure that screwing up all of this nationwide is not a real concern to our earstwhile political betters. Not a bug, a feature.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/12/2020 13:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Liberals want to expand SCOTUS to 11? Good idea. DJT has at least 2-3 more terms to appoint justices to fill out the 11 members.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2020 16:01 Comments || Top||


Better look at your social media — chances are you’re next to be canceled
[NYPOST] A short list of the people, movies, TV shows, CEOs, businesspeople, writers and institutions canceled — or on the verge of cancellation — over the past few days:

"Gone with the Wind," the long-running reality show "COPS," "The Help," two major newspaper editors, Andrew Sullivan’s column for New York magazine, the editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit, four "Vanderpump Rules" castmembers, "Live PD," the Brearley School on New York’s Upper East Side, the actual police, cook Alison Roman (again), the top editor and co-founder of Refinery29, Anna Wintour, the founder and CEO of Crossfit, "The Flash" actor Hartley Sawyer, the CEO of 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...
’s famed "Second City" improv group, "Law & Order" writer Craig Gore, Corcoran realtor Joseph Swedroe and economics professor Harald Uhlig (never heard of those last two either, but it goes to show you no one is safe).

This all comes as America rages over the death of George Floyd and reckons with endemic, institutionalized racism. But there’s a misguided approach here in which all offenses, be they subtle or enormous, born of ignorance or malice, result in the loss of reputations and livelihoods.
Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Next step -- deep fake accounts with "unacceptable" content for everyone, including those not actually on social media.

To be held in reserve when needed.

The technogarchs must be destroyed.

And any Muh Free Market Princapullz hack that defends them needs to go too.
Posted by: charger || 06/12/2020 2:37 Comments || Top||

#2  China has invested 19 million in our media I saw somewhere. Gee, that was nice of them.
Posted by: Dale || 06/12/2020 8:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Well if I was in antisocial media, I probably would already have been canceled.
So. "Welcome from the abyss of the incorrect, come on in, the water's fine. I'm in the shady spot near the beer vendor."
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/12/2020 12:51 Comments || Top||


Trayvon Martin’s mother running for public office in Florida
[NYPOST] Trayvon Martin’s mother says she’s ready to run for public office in Florida, eight years after her unarmed 17-year-old son’s shooting death sparked a national outcry.

Sybrina Fulton announced this week that she will run for the Miami-Dade Commission District 1 seat currently held by outgoing Commissioner Barbara Jordan, she announced on Twitter.

“At first, I didn’t want to be the voice for Trayvon after he died,” Fulton said on her campaign website. “But I decided I have no choice. Now I’m called to act and called to serve.”

“It became clear to me there’s an opportunity to turn our family’s tragedy into something lucrative positive for many other families,” she said. “It took my son being shot down in order for me to stand up. But I’m standing now.”

Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  After Trayvon was prevented from visiting, crime abruptly fell.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/12/2020 5:24 Comments || Top||

#2  And you blame Chinese for thinking that the American Century is over!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2020 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Boodle drying up?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/12/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Perhaps the U.S. "Century of Humiliation" has begun.
Posted by: Clem || 06/12/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#5  There have always been people wearing hair shirts. There always will be. They will always be a cult proportion of the populace. Right now lots of people are washing black feet in their social network accounts because it's easy and no real cost. If they ever had to actually knuckle under to Mandingo you would see a real pandemic - of passive aggressive non-compliance by the hipsters.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2020 10:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Cool. New T-shirts for their family to fight over.
Posted by: Gleretle Gurly-Brown5685 || 06/12/2020 21:12 Comments || Top||


De Blasio pulls race card to defend wife Chirlane McCray’s administrative role
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
pulled the race card to defend wife Chirlane McCray’s prominent role in his administration on everything from the city’s coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
response to slashing the NYPD’s budget.

"There have been critics from the beginning," de Blasio said during his daily briefing Thursday when asked about concerns that he’s crediting her with the decision to shift money from cops to youth services to boost her future political career.

"I don’t know if they’re uncomfortable because she’s a woman or an African American or an African American woman," he said.

McCray, who was at the briefing trumpeting her new plan to help mom-and-pop restaurants in minority communities recover from the coronavirus pandemic, said she actually doesn’t enjoy the public platform.

"I’m not someone who thrives in the limelight. I don’t, like, need the attention of both being in front of the cameras. In fact, it’s very difficult for me," she said.

"I do what I do because I care about people. I care deeply about these brown and black communities that have been affected disproportionately by the COVID-19 virus," McCray said.

Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From the pic at the link, Mrs Mayor doesn't fit the usual politician's trophy wife profile. Not picking on the lady's looks, just noticing an anomaly. Anomalies mean there is something you don't understand. Hey, maybe it's love.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/12/2020 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Show me a female Commie Pinko who is a babe!
Posted by: Clem || 06/12/2020 5:12 Comments || Top||

#3  uncomfortable because she’s a woman or an African American or an African American woman," he said.

You left out "Commie shill" for a rat bastard mayor.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/12/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Manhattan’s empty apartments: New leases plunge 62% in May
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Can't read the article on empty apts., but it can plunge more for all I care about that numbskull Wilhelm at the helm in NYC.
Posted by: Clem || 06/12/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#6  And didn't I read once that Mrs De B was a switch hitter?
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 06/12/2020 12:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Actually Bill, it's because these people are anti-Scots.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2020 16:57 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 - Yes
Posted by: Frank G || 06/12/2020 19:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Commie shill for a rat-bastard mayor... I bet there is a German word for that.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/12/2020 21:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Not literal, but I'll gladly go with "Schweinehund".
Posted by: Clem || 06/12/2020 22:01 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden says military would intervene if Trump refused to leave White House
[NYPOST] Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
said he was "absolutely convinced" that the US military would intervene to remove President Trump from the White House if he lost his re-election bid and refused to leave.

Speaking during an interview on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" Wednesday night, the former vice president made the comment after being asked if he had ever considered the possibility of Trump refusing to concede the election and vacate the White House if he lost.

"Yes I have," Biden told Noah before the interview appeared to be edited and cut off.

The next frame shown in the Comedy Central appearance was of the Democrat remarking about the "many" senior military officers who had spoken out about the commander-in-chief in recent weeks, specifically the Trump administration’s response to the protests over the death of George Floyd.

"I’m promise you, I’m absolutely convinced they will escort him from the White House with great dispatch," Biden said, arguing that the military would step in if necessary to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition of power.

Biden also warned of his "single greatest concern," that "the president is going to try to steal this election."

That concern is not new for Biden.

In April, Biden warned donors during a virtual fundraiser that he believed the commander-in-chief was going to try to put off the November election despite having no legal authority to do so.

"This president, mark my words, I think he’s going to try to kick back the election somehow, come up with a rationale why it can’t be held," Biden told donors during an online fundraiser.

Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...You know how I know that Joe's never even read the Constitution?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/12/2020 4:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Using the principle of projection Biden would refuse to leave the whitehouse unless the military have to boot the bum out.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/12/2020 5:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Military may need to intervene to get Joe dressed and out of his basement.
Posted by: Airandee || 06/12/2020 6:12 Comments || Top||

#4  What he actually intended to say was... "the military will have to intervene when President Trump does leave the White House."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2020 6:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Jeez louise. Didn't we get this same shit from Hillary and Company 4 years ago?

Talk about a gormless bunch of no talent losers.

I don't think that the Dems have had a new idea since Marx died....and I don't mean Groucho.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/12/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#6  at this point they know they can't win, so they will try everything to muddle the vote to make it as 'close' as possible, so that they (with the help of their allies in the media) can throw doubt onto the election results.

and we all know if there is doubt in the results, it always has to go to the Dem
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/12/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Jeez louise. Didn't we get this same shit from Hillary and Company 4 years ago?

Talk about a gormless bunch of no talent losers.

I don't think that the Dems have had a new idea since Marx died....and I don't mean Groucho.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/12/2020 7:51 Comments || Top||

#8  I wouldn't count on that Joe. Especially if there are a ton of voting irregularities. If you try, you can expect a full shooting war.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/12/2020 11:33 Comments || Top||

#9  What he actually intended to say was... "the military will have to intervene when President Trump does leave the White House."

Besoeker so true
Posted by: Jan || 06/12/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#10  The Daily Show is still on?
Posted by: Beavis || 06/12/2020 12:17 Comments || Top||

#11  The larger the dems loss the louder they will screech. Tank will be Plugz VP nominee exactly because of all the voter suppression maundering she has been doing.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2020 16:13 Comments || Top||


Trump to Inslee Amid Seattle Antifa Revolt: 'Take Back Your City NOW. If You Don't, I Will.'
[PJMEDIA] As antifa murderous Moslems have taken over six blocks of Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, calling it the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" or the "People’s Republic of Capitol Hill," Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has refused to act, and Gov. Jay Inslee
...Governor of Washington state, failed candidate for the 2020 Dem presidential campaign, mainly because nobody outside the state and some inside had ever heard of him. He complained, complained, complained that the Trump administration wasn't doing enough to help the state, then returned an Army field hospital and 400 ventilators that didn't get used...
(D-Wash.) actually laughed about this open revolt, claiming he hadn’t heard about it. He did say, however, that he was demobilizing the National Guard. President Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
told Durkan and Inslee to get their acts together, stat.

"Radical Left Governor [Jay Inslee] and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before," the president tweeted. "Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stooped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!"
Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let em keep it. Point out everyday what an idiot Inslee and every other Democrat are for supporting or tolerating this violation of citizens' rights. Make sure everyone knows this the Democrat's New Normal for America.
Posted by: Clolutch Elmomoling5575 || 06/12/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Sometimes, the most powerful weapon is a well pointed finger.
Posted by: Clolutch Elmomoling5575 || 06/12/2020 13:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Park an armed UAV over occupied Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone and liberate it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2020 15:07 Comments || Top||

#4  First you need to take down the barricades.

I think a quick pass or two of an A-10 would do a good job at that.

Probably get their attention, no?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/12/2020 16:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Have tbey set up Rape Free Zone's yet?

Can't have a liberal paradise without a Rape Free Zone!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/12/2020 21:08 Comments || Top||


Pelosi: Confederate symbols ‘have to go’ from Capitol, bases
[APNEWS] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
said Thursday that it’s time to remove symbols honoring Confederate figures from the U.S. Capitol building and military bases as the pandemic and racial unrest force a national reckoning with racial discrimination.
They keep complaining that Washington and Jefferson were slave holders. Next step will be for their monuments to go. The capital will be renamed too. I suggest "Marcus Garvey, D.C.," but they probably hold out for Obama.
"These names have to go from these bases and these statues have to go from the Capitol," Pelosi said at her weekly news conference. "The American people know these names have to go."

Confederate monuments have reemerged as a national flashpoint since the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes. Protesters decrying racism have targeted Confederate monuments in multiple cities, and some state officials are considering taking them down.

President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
doubled down Thursday on his vow to not rename military bases honoring Confederate generals, even as NASCAR announced it would ban displays of the Confederate flag at its races.

"Seriously failed presidential candidate, Senator Elizabeth ’Pocahontas’ Warren, just introduced an Amendment on the renaming of many of our legendary Military Bases from which we trained to WIN two World Wars. Hopefully our great Republican Senators won’t fall for this!" Trump said in a Twitter blast.
Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let's get rid of the Party of the Confederacy and Klan first.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/12/2020 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Why don't we start with you? Your face does not move anyway.
Posted by: newc || 06/12/2020 1:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I can see renaming the bases, most got their name by accident of history anyway.

If they have to do it, rename Fort Bragg, named for a mediocre Confed general, to Fort Lee - the Father of the Airborne. Fort Rucker to Fort Billy Mitchell, Army Aviation's father. And Fort Hood, Home of America's Hammer? Fort George S Patton of course. And we have to have a Fort Schwarzkopf someplace. And a Fort von Steuben.

And who could say no to Fort Lewis "Chesty" Puller?
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/12/2020 2:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Fort Benning goes to Fort Schwarzkopf, he served Airborne, was a Master Parachutist, also taught leadership. Fort Lee to Fort Von Steuben giove that its Doctrine Development etc that's done there. Fort Gordon to Fort Matthew Ridgeway. Fort Polk to Fort Pershing.

Lots of good alternatives.

Now lets see what we can do to get Robert KKK Byrd's name off of half the buildings in West Virginia.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/12/2020 2:28 Comments || Top||

#5  That post-Civil War military installation naming convention, designed to unify a war-torn nation as a prelude to WWI appears to have run it's course.

Division and anarchy are now the more contemporary goals.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Don't forget the judicial branch. The US Supreme Court building honors the author of this law:
15.If a man aid a male or female slave of the palace, or a male or female slave of a freeman to escape from the city gate, he shall be put to death.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 06/12/2020 9:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Pelosi has become a repressive symbol of a tyrranical, seditious House of Represenatives. Shouldn't this symbol be removed?

There are many other symbols of the left. Shouldn't these also be removed because they are offensive? Just saying, this entire cancel movement (history deniers) is stupid as well as ignorant.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#8  What also makes me sick about that psycho harridan is that pathetically phony smile. She's a disgusting piece of rubbish, mentally & physically.
Posted by: Clem || 06/12/2020 10:15 Comments || Top||

#9  If she could get rid of the Southern States, she would.
Posted by: Klem Kadiddlehopper || 06/12/2020 10:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Pelosi's father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., oversaw the dedication of such a statue in Baltimore’s Wyman Park — the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument — as mayor of the city in 1948.
Whats that saying, if you live in a glass house don't throw stones
selective memory at it's finest
Posted by: Jan || 06/12/2020 11:57 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ She doesn't remember it, so it didn't happen...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||

#12  If only they had called it "The Southern Autonomous Zone".
Posted by: Matt || 06/12/2020 12:32 Comments || Top||

#13  Marcus Garvey, D.C.

The "C" stands for Columbia and that's raycis!
Posted by: Clolutch Elmomoling5575 || 06/12/2020 13:05 Comments || Top||

#14  Tear down the Antifa Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone monument to anarchy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2020 17:27 Comments || Top||

#15  OK, then that statue of Lenin in Se as the or Portlands got to go
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 06/12/2020 23:10 Comments || Top||



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