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-Lurid Crime Tales-
After getting caught cozying up to (and possibly sleeping with) a Chinese spy, Swalwell blames ‐ you guessed it ‐ Donald Trump!
[NotTheBee] Yesterday news broke from Axios that California Representative Eric Swalwell was closely involved with a spy, Christine Fang, from China who fundraised for his campaign and planted an intern in his office.

Today, in a Politico interview, instead of answering any questions about the depths of his involvement with the suspected spy, Swalwell used the opportunity to do his favorite thing and lash out against Donald Trump.

Really. This was his response.
"I've been a critic of the president. I've spoken out against him. I was on both committees that worked to impeach him," Swalwell said in an interview on Tuesday. "The timing feels like that should be looked at."

Swalwell added: "What it appears though that this person — as the story reports — was unsuccessful in whatever they were trying to do. But if intelligence officials are trying to weaponize someone's cooperation, they are essentially seeking to do what this person was not able to do, which is to try and discredit someone."

There you have it, according to Eric Swalwell the REAL story here is that the media is reporting at all on his dalliance with a Chinese spy. And Axios, which is not exactly a pro-Trump news site, is in cahoots with the Trump White House to undermine Swalwell's credibility. But, as we know, Swalwell is not always forthcoming and will often try to shift the blame when he makes a mistake.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 07:41 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "He pushed me into her lady parts!"
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/10/2020 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  simply beneath contempt
Posted by: Harry Thrirt9311 || 12/10/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Who's the chink banging Schiff?
Does Fang Fang have a brother named Bang Bang?
Posted by: Daffy Tojo9648 || 12/10/2020 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ^-- whoever she is I hope she gets combat pay...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/10/2020 13:41 Comments || Top||

#5  and goes to far in asphyxia games with pencilneck
Posted by: Frank G || 12/10/2020 15:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Fang? I suspect Swalwell is more attracted to Wang.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/10/2020 15:41 Comments || Top||

#7  'If a democrat had been president, the Chinese would have not needed to buy me.'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/10/2020 17:33 Comments || Top||

#8  goes too far in asphyxia games with pencilneck

Very easy to do when the round-eyed mark's neck easily fits between Chinese thumb and forefinger
Posted by: Glens Borgia1039 || 12/10/2020 18:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Confucius say, "Red Russian sparrow
More deadly than poisonous arrow:
Her SVR action
Destroy your election!"
Cue fanged dragon lady's Bolero.
Posted by: Hupinelet B. Hayes3113 || 12/10/2020 22:38 Comments || Top||


27 House Republicans send letter to AG Barr asking him to appoint Special Counsel to investigate election fraud
[Right Scoop] Twenty-seven House Republicans have sent a letter to AG Barr asking him to appoint a special counsel to investigate election fraud:
NY POST — More than two dozen House Republicans have signed onto a letter sent Wednesday urging that President Trump direct Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to probe 2020 election "irregularities."

The letter, obtained by The Post, was originally written and sent last Thursday by Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas), two days after the nation’s top law enforcement agent said the Justice Department had not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would alter the outcome of the presidential race.

Gooden opted to resend the letter this week after dozens of GOP lawmakers agreed to add their names to it, including Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Mo Brooks of Alabama.

"Following widespread support from my House Republican colleagues, I am again requesting that you direct Attorney General Barr to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate irregularities in the 2020 election," Wednesday’s letter began.

"The American people deserve a definitive resolution to the uncertainty hovering over the outcome of our election, but legitimate questions of voter fraud remain unanswered," it continued.


Republicans point out that there hasn’t been much action on the DOJ:
The letter goes on to bemoan the lack of action by the Justice Department and Barr, who authorized federal prosecutors to investigate allegations of "voting irregularities" in the days after the election was called for President-elect Joe Biden, but said last week that no widespread evidence had been found.

"The Department of Justice has been asked on multiple occasions to launch an investigation into this matter, but inaction from the Department along with public comments made by the Attorney General indicate a lack of willingness to investigate the irregularities your campaign and other elected officials across the nation have alleged," Gooden stated in the letter, making specific reference to Barr’s comments last week on the probe.
The letter is just one page and you can read it below. I absolutely agree with them that this needs to be done in order to restore trust in our election systems. Democrats just investigated Trump for three years based on phony accusations, and this is far more important to the future of our republic.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 06:04 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should have been 196 signatures, if that is the current number of pubs. No excuses, no exceptions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Asking "nothing to see here" Barr to investigate the election fraud id like asking a fox to guard the chicken house.

Barr already supposedly looked into this and "found nothing".

Which made me think Barr is a China agent, loyal only to China and not yo America.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/10/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Barr is just burnishing his DS credentials in preparation for another post-political grift.

After he left the Bush admin, Barr hauled in over $30 million shilling for Verizon.

Will Barr be snapped up by Google or Facebook?
For $50 million? $100 million?
Posted by: Menhadden Clereper1175 || 12/10/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm afraid AG Barr and his Deep State sidekick Durham have been taking us for a ride. How do you feel now?
Posted by: jpal || 12/10/2020 19:46 Comments || Top||

#5  nice work if you kin geddit
Posted by: Gleth Unuque6059 || 12/10/2020 19:59 Comments || Top||


Hunter Biden Under Investigation Over Taxes
[PJMedia] On Wednesday, former Vice-President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
’s son Hunter Biden revealed that he is under investigation by Delaware’s top prosecutor over his taxes.

"I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs," Hunter Biden said in a statement. "I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors."

The Biden transition team also released a statement, declaring that Joe Biden "is deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger."
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From 22 Oct 2020 and the edge of the memory hole.

PJ Media - Hunter Biden Email Names Kamala Harris, Others as Key Contacts for 'Joint Venture' With China Energy Co.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  The FBI has already spent two years on this case. Par for the course for the fascist wanna-bes.
Posted by: b || 12/10/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Clem || 12/10/2020 23:43 Comments || Top||


FBI Criminal Probe Tracks 500,000 Counterfeit Biden Ballots in Four Key Battleground States Share:
[TruePundit] The FBI has widened a criminal probe into 2020 presidential election fraud and are on the trail of 500,000 manufactured/phony ballots for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, according to high-ranking federal sources on the Thomas Paine Podcast.
At the Apple link, search for PAINE in the Morning -- WED -- DEC. 9. Or listen to the podcast at the True Pundit link in the headline.
The states in play? Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Michicgan.

The fraud is massive and complex. Listen above or below for details.

This story is developing.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My lips are chapped. Don't make me laugh.
Posted by: b || 12/10/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ no kidding b..the quickest way to bury something in the swamp is to control the narrative by owning the investigation..hey, it worked for Barr and Durham didn't it?
Posted by: Warthog || 12/10/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden did not win. There is no mathematically-possible way that this brain-addled buffoon, who didn't even campaign and whose people didn't knock on doors, defeated a rival who was drawing up to 60,000 people for a single event - in the deep blue Democrat territory of western Pennsylvania just days before the election.

Statistically and practically there us no way on God's green earth that Biden won Pennsylvania without absentee ballot fraud in a mass scale
Posted by: Omatle Dark Lord of the Giants6145 || 12/10/2020 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Some may remember the comments about a month ago.
Where it was mentioned, at least 3 "known" illegal ballot printing sites were being discuss on back channels.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/10/2020 16:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Just like the FBI investigated Epstein's murder.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/10/2020 22:17 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Texas requests Supreme Court to overturn Biden win
The (D) Media View. Biden won. On the The Promised Land!
[Dallas News]Texas AG Ken Paxton’s longshot suit asks high court to negate 10M votes in Georgia, Penn., Michigan and Wisconsin. Ted Cruz agreed to argue the case for Trump.
Nope, no bias here!
President Donald Trump and 17 GOP-controlled states filed motions Wednesday backing Texas’ longshot legal effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn results in four states that helped deliver the presidency to Democrat Joe Biden.
I thought it was a constitutional question, silly me! But wait - didn't Trump predict a SCOTUS issue weeks ago?
Trump called this "the big one" after losing more than three dozen cases in federal and state courts alleging ballot tampering and fraud.
Are any cases still open? Giuliani's? Powell's?
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit on Monday, effectively asking the nation’s highest court to negate 10.4 million ballots from voters who picked Biden over Trump in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Just the illegal ones.
Officials in those states called the lawsuit a baseless stunt. The Supreme Court has given them until 3 p.m. Thursday to file responses.

Trump’s legal team has found no traction in court for his unsubstantiated claims that the election was rigged or stolen, and the president embraced the Texas case as the latest and possibly last potential vehicle to stave off defeat.
At least they didn't say "inevitable defeat". A glimmer of hope.
The Supreme Court has signaled little interest in second-guessing state election procedures after the fact, though it offered Trump a glimmer of hope by not rejecting Texas' challenge out of hand.

Only the nation's high court has jurisdiction in controversies between state governments, though the idea that one state can challenge another's elections is novel. Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican who served as state attorney general before his election in 2002, was dubious.
Not challenging the election, buddy, just the process. If the procedures are found to violate the US Constitution, then there's the question of what to do with the mail in ballots, not the whole "election".
Posted by: Bobby || 12/10/2020 09:44 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden didnt win.
Posted by: Clese Sneart7857 || 12/10/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, Texas and 17 other states, so far that is.
Remember the mantra boys, say it once and say it loud.
Stolen
Not
Won.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/10/2020 10:23 Comments || Top||


#4  "Let's get in on!"
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was passed over for Barr on the federal level. Paxton aggressively put several people in prison in Texas since then in Texas for election fraud.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/10/2020 11:07 Comments || Top||

#6  This is Trump's last shot. If SCOTUS dismisses this one, it's over. OTOH, if SCOTUS rules in Trump's favor, it's over too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/10/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Not a win.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/10/2020 11:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Picking up the soccer ball and running it into the goal does not score a point.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/10/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#9  If legal measures fail to reverse this atrocity then other measures will become necessary
Posted by: Grinetle Guelph9330 || 12/10/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#10  It would never happen but it would be nice if whomever won called a special election, a Do-over that followed all the rules and restored faith in the system.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/10/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#11  A mulligan is the only option that will prevent CWII.

Fail to overturn this monkey business, and we WILL have armed resistance.

Overturn this monkey business, and the Deep State will amp up its shenanigans, Blamtifa will start burning down 100x the number of neighborhoods they've done so far -- and we WILL have armed resistance to Blamtifa and the D.C. conspirators.

Either way, there is no alternative to mass violence in this country except for a do-ever. With ONLY in-person, supervised, verified, signed votes.

Purple ink on voters' fingers, tons of monitors -- the whole bit. If we have third world election nonsense then the only cure is the radical transparency that we impose on newly-democratic countries crawling out from the wreckage of totalitarian fraud
Posted by: Clem Gurly-Brown5041 || 12/10/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#12  Yup.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/10/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#13  M - U - Double L - I - G-A-N spells Mulligan
M - U - Double L - I - G-A-N is a name that a Shane has never been connected with
He's the cure we need for bullshit
He's the one to clean the swamp
Mulligan, that's me!
Posted by: Clem Lumumba5837 || 12/10/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||

#14  The USSC is asleep at the wheel. They don't like to interfere with "political" issues and, judging from their behavior on related issues, are blind to the significance of this election's chicanery. Our entire system of governance is losing its legitimacy among the real electorate.
Posted by: Thineger Sproing6704 || 12/10/2020 16:19 Comments || Top||

#15  6 more states wants to join the Texas posse that already is at 18. That equals 24, yawl.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/10/2020 16:36 Comments || Top||

#16  Good.

ThecUSSC isn’t asleep at the wheel. Roberts is compromised and they don’t want to take the hit again. They have to.
Posted by: Gromosh the Grim5422 || 12/10/2020 17:34 Comments || Top||

#17  This is indeed good news. It may be time for a Constitutional Convention. If for no other reason to re-affirm and strengthen the current document.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 17:35 Comments || Top||

#18  22 blue states just filed an opposing brief against the 24 states at the Supreme Court.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/10/2020 17:45 Comments || Top||

#19  Do you think the Democrats, Deep State, or their Media allies would honor the outcome of a Convention of States?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/10/2020 17:51 Comments || Top||

#20  It may be time for a Constitutional Convention. If for no other reason to re-affirm and strengthen the current document. IIRC the Constitutional Convention leading to the present Constitution went beyond its initial mission. The electorate and political class being what they are, a new and revised constitution could wind up being horrible. It did take a civil war and the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to undo the Dred Scott decision.
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 12/10/2020 18:23 Comments || Top||

#21  Just do the vote over.

Paper ballots in person, ID required, hand-counted with the counting videotaped & documented.
Posted by: Black Charlie Jeash7187 || 12/10/2020 18:52 Comments || Top||

#22  That is just so raciss....
Posted by: Clem || 12/10/2020 19:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Schiff Refuses To Disclose Why He Withheld Details Of Swalwell's Relationship With A Chinese Spy From Intel Committee
[Federalist] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff did not respond to The Federalist's questions about Intelligence Committee member and California Rep. Eric Swalwell's position on the committee in light of recent news revealing Swalwell's connections with a suspected Chinese spy.

When asked whether Swalwell's position on the House Intelligence Committee would be tainted or compromised by his relationship with Christine Fang, a suspected spy for communist China, Swalwell's office did not reply as of press time. According to a new report by Axios, Fang leveraged her position and connections in California's Bay Area for years to gather intelligence on Democrat politicians and government officials.

Schiff's office also did not respond when asked if he previously knew about Swalwell's involvement with Fang or if he was briefed about Swalwell's relationship with Fang.

Swalwell also refused to answer The Federalist's questions about the extent of his relationship with Fang, ignoring allegations from sources directly familiar with the counterintelligence investigation of Fang who told The Federalist that she and Swalwell may have had a sexual relationship.

According to the two sources, federal officials were so concerned about the romantic relationship between a U.S. congressman and a suspected Chinese spy that they even investigated whether Swalwell may have tipped Fang off about the counterintelligence investigation after he was given a defensive briefing on the matter shortly before Fang disappeared from the U.S. in 2015. A senior U.S. intelligence official told The Federalist that investigators only uncovered limited circumstantial evidence that Swalwell may have tipped Fang off after he was warned of her connections to Chinese intelligence.

According to Axios, Fang raised money and bundled donors for Swalwell, and even placed an intern in the congressman's Washington's D.C. office.

When contacted by The Federalist, Swalwell's office pointed to the generalized statement they gave Axios.

"Rep. Swalwell, long ago, provided information about this person ‐ whom he met more than eight years ago, and whom he hasn't seen in nearly six years ‐ to the FBI. To protect information that might be classified, he will not participate in your story," Swalwell's office said.
[Sure, sure, reporting foreign contacts "might be classified". Uh-huh.]
Posted by: Clem || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  um, because he's a communist spy himself......
Posted by: 746 || 12/10/2020 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Why does political life in this country attract so many weaseling shitheads? Is it really this bad in Canada? BritIn, Australia, France?

What did we do to deserve these mendacious and corrupt fools?
Posted by: Crise Grumble1035 || 12/10/2020 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  A Democratic Party "bundler" was she ?

Hot Air - Chinese Spy Acted As Bundler For Rep. Eric Swalwell, Helped Install Intern In His Office

More on this amazing coincidence, and faster please.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 1:33 Comments || Top||



#6  I anxiously await news of Hunter Biden's Christine Fang social network connection.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 1:50 Comments || Top||

#7  just consider that Politics is Hollywood for ugly people and look at the turds that are in Hollywood and you have your answer
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 12/10/2020 7:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Swalwell was a victim, Schiff withholding is a crime.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/10/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Why did it take this long, and a leak from somewhere, for us to learn that the FBI had fingered the miserable Swalwell years ago? I suppose the answer to that is the FBI has and will cover for all Democrat miscreants. Second, Pelosi must have known about it; after all Swalwell represents the East Bay of California, just across the bridge from San Francisco.
Posted by: b || 12/10/2020 8:03 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ Wikileaks is out of business, something about a terminated source in D.C.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#11  No, he's just pond scum, 746.

And apologies to all the spirogyras or cyanobacterias out there for associating him with you.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/10/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#12  Has anyone looked into Shiffs dating background... and connections.. I am beginning to wonder how deep the china connection goes in congress.

Since we already suspect the DOJ FBI & OTHER leadership .. seriously we have to wonder how deep it goes?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/10/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#13  /\ Has anyone looked into Shiffs dating background..

I recommend we begin with an autopsy and move on to discovery from there.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 8:23 Comments || Top||

#14  Has anyone looked into Shiffs dating background.

Thank you for making my day. /sarkoff
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/10/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#15  Is it really this bad in Canada? BritIn, Australia, France?

Worse, as far as I can tell. Canada has Justin Trudeau, who is like a stupid Barack Obama without the exotic life story, though he does like to dress up in the clothes of the interesting backgrounds he was not born into. Britain has the acknowledged ass Boris Johnson; his great-grandfather was Ali Kemal Bey, whose own mother was a Circassian slave, which explains the unruly blond hair of the prime minister— and he is perhaps the best of the lot over there. The best France can do is Emmanuel Macron, who married his teacher and gets a gold star for effort every morning with breakfast.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||

#16  Democrats have sold themselves to the Chinese Communist Party. For a long time after they all decided during the primaries to let Joe have it, I wondered who was on the committee that made that decision and who would have the power to enforce it, who could make all of those other candidates get behind a senile old creep who is so frail that he breaks his leg playing with his dog. At first I thought it was just a deal they made with Bernie Sanders. But Bernie doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would just step aside when he knew he could beat Joe in the primaries, especially after he knuckled under to Hillary's cheating in 2016. Who else would have that kind of clout? Clinton? Obama? Would Bernie listen to them? I don't think so. I now believe that committee is really the CCP Politburo in Beijing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/10/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||

#17  Ask Philip Ho and Ye Jianming
Posted by: Injun Snamble7406 || 12/10/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#18  Since we already suspect the DOJ FBI & OTHER leadership .. seriously we have to wonder how deep it goes?

I think it's safe to assume that it's worse than you can possibly imagine. Could be we are not worthy of our ancestors' legacy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/10/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#19  ^ A republic, madam, if you can keep it.
We couldn't keep it.
Posted by: Herb Bumble5484 || 12/10/2020 12:24 Comments || Top||


Covid relief talks hit another wall as Congress runs short on time to send help
[Bloomberg]
  • Congress is struggling to reach a consensus on another round of coronavirus relief as unemployment benefits and an eviction moratorium are set to expire.

  • State and local government aid, liability protections for businesses, unemployment benefits, and direct payments continue to divide Republicans and Democrats.

  • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for rejecting the latest Trump administration offer, which did not include extra jobless benefits.
To summarize: If Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi can’t get everything she demands, nobody gets anything. Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is ok with the second alternative.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Come everybody....
Who are the Socialist Democrats fooling?

The Stimulus #2 package will NOT be approved by the House (SD's) until the Election is resolved, or they figure some how to credit Acting President Harris and Acting VP Pelosi for it.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/10/2020 16:09 Comments || Top||


Michigan State Rep Who Threatened Trump Supporters Stripped Of Committee Assignments
Consequences.
[Daily Caller] Democratic Michigan State Rep. Cynthia Johnson was stripped of her committee assignments Wednesday after she threatened supporters of President Donald Trump in a Facebook live video.

The Speaker of the Michigan House Lee Chatfield released a statement, explaining that Johnson had been removed from her committees and that there is an active investigation going on to determine if further action is necessary.

"Threats to Democrats or Republicans are unacceptable and un-American. They’re even more unbecoming of an elected official. Rep. CA Johnson has been stripped of her committees and we’re looking into further disciplinary action as the proper authorities conduct their investigation," Chatfield said in the statement.

In the video filmed Tuesday night, Johnson said Trump supporters better be careful and called on "soldiers" to "make them pay." The video was over three minutes long. Johnson took office on January 1, 2019. Her current term ends on December 31, 2020.

"So this is just a warning to you Trumpers. Be careful, walk lightly, we ain't playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough. And for those of you who are soldiers, you know how to do it. Do it right, be in order, make them pay," Johnson says in the video.

'Make Them Pay': Michigan Democratic State Rep. Cynthia Jones Threatens Trump Supporters
[DAILYCALLER] Michigan Democratic State Rep. Cynthia Johnson threatened President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s supporters in a Facebook live video Tuesday, saying it is a warning message to those who support the president.In the Facebook live video, Johnson said Trump supporters better be careful, calling on "soldiers" to "make them (Trump supporters) pay." The video was over three minutes long. Johnson took office on January 1, 2019. Her current term ends on December 31, 2020.

"So this is just a warning to you Trumpers. Be careful, walk lightly, we ain’t playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough. And for those of you who are soldiers, you know how to do it. Do it right, be in order, make them pay," Johnson says in the video
Posted by: Frank G || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  payback's a bitch,bitch.
Posted by: 746 || 12/10/2020 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  "Soldiers"?
Does she (or her handlers) know something we don't?
Posted by: Waldemar Crish1870 || 12/10/2020 0:50 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm not entirely certain it's wise for socialists to go about demanding a reckoning right at the moment.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/10/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Forgive me, but I hope the hair loss is therapy related.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#5  How is this different from what most other Democrats have been spewing lately.
How is this different from what Michelle Obama said when he won his 2nd term?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/10/2020 10:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Some things in the swamp are too toxic for even the deepState to bear.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/10/2020 11:19 Comments || Top||

#7  the human tennis ball... screams out for a barber to shave "Wilson" or "Slazenger" into that yellow fuzzy pate
Posted by: Big Crater2339 || 12/10/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#8  So just who is calling for violence? Leftist pig.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/10/2020 16:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Some things in the swamp are too toxic for even the deepState to bear.

Bucking for Promotion?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/10/2020 19:46 Comments || Top||


Supreme Court Requests Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia Respond to Election Lawsuit By 3pm Thursday; Update: 17 States Join Texas Suit
[CONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE]

Courtesy of Besoeker:
UPDATE: 17 States Join Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Over Fraudulent Election
[Gateway] It’s not just Missouri, on Tuesday Allen West told Steve Bannon on the War Room, "I think you’re going to see ten states sign on to this petition and lawsuit. I know as you said Louisiana just came on board."

Seven states have already reportedly joined Texas in their lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

And the list has now grown to 17 states.
MO, AL, AR, FL, NE, ND, OK, IN, KS, LA, MS, MT, SC, SD, TN, UT and WV.

Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Texas AG Paxton vs Barr is what this boils down to. Here, the day after fraud became I said Texas would succeed. Looks like they are going out up a challenge first before opting out of a corrupt Washington DC.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/10/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#2  The beginning of CWII
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/10/2020 15:51 Comments || Top||

#3  CWII would be a shame. Won't be able to send credit card payments to New York and Delaware any more.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/10/2020 15:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Except CWII also divides blue-state rurals from blue-state urbans.

Bleeding California (and Michigan, and Illinois, and New York state)
Posted by: Vespasian Lumumba6116 || 12/10/2020 15:58 Comments || Top||

#5  ...And what happens when they say 'No' ?
Posted by: magpie || 12/10/2020 20:27 Comments || Top||

#6  строгие манеры
Posted by: Snans Cravimp7452 || 12/10/2020 20:54 Comments || Top||


Google, YouTube Announce They Will Block Content That Challenges 2020 Election Result
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  so is YouTube being broken off of Google to make the plural "they"?

Posted by: 3dc || 12/10/2020 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Break up these little fuckers.
Enough of this outrageous nonsense. Take back our democracy.
Posted by: Boss Angeatch7838 || 12/10/2020 0:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Did they do anything like that back in 2016 about the Russia electing trump nonsense?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/10/2020 3:38 Comments || Top||

#4  So they would block a Supreme Court decision/announcement that nullifies the election shenanigans in 6 states?
Posted by: Airandee || 12/10/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Rewriting history was a main theme in 1984, the lefts how to manual.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/10/2020 10:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Anti-Trust suits against Social Media Giants already signed off on by 48 states I read somewhere...
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/10/2020 16:13 Comments || Top||


President-elect Joe Biden picks Rep. Marcia Fudge to be Housing and Urban Development secretary, report says
[CLEVELAND] President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
will nominate Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge
...Dem Congresswoman for Ohio's 11th congressional district since 2008. She won a special election to succeed Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who gave up her office when carried out feet first. The strangely-shaped, but really not gerrymandered, district includes most of the black-majority areas between Cleveland and Akron. Fudge was Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 113th Congress...
to be the next U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Politico reports, citing "two people with knowledge of the decision."Spokesman for Biden’s transition team did not respond to requests for comment on the report, and a spokeswoman for Fudge said she could not confirm it and was trying to reach Fudge.

"Everybody is calling about it," said Fudge spokeswoman Denise Tolliver.

As news outlets began reporting that Fudge was picked for the job, Fudge told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that it would be "an honor and a privilege" to be asked to join Biden’s Cabinet, though she didn’t confirm she had been picked.

"It is something in probably my wildest dreams I would have never thought about," said Fudge. "So if I can help this president in any way possible, I am more than happy to do it."

Fudge, who is a member of the House Agriculture Committee, originally sought to be Biden’s agriculture secretary, but reports from Politico and other outlets indicate that Biden is leaning toward appointing former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who served as agriculture secretary when Barack Obama
If you like your coverage you can keep it...
was president. If Fudge obtains the HUD job, she’d be the second African American woman to hold it.
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh...Fudge!
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/10/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  None for me please I have a nut allergy.
Posted by: jpal || 12/10/2020 11:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Fudge Packer (or Packee)
Posted by: Elmomosh Glaiper7433 || 12/10/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Anything to get her out of Cleveland.
Posted by: Clem || 12/10/2020 23:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Do tell us, Judge Fudge, why'd ya hasten
To shun this fine, kind fellow Mason
Who'd turned round his life
(ere he butchered his wife)?
And why do your brothers,
Much more than some others,
Require such judicious replacin'?
Posted by: Hupinelet B. Hayes3113 || 12/10/2020 23:53 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Ex-CIA chief says Qassem Soleimani was his arch 'nemisis'
Suuuure he was. That’s why President Obama made his little deal with Iran.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
, who will be remembered by many as a defender of the use of "enhanced interrogation" practices on al-Qaeda* suspects, has recently grabbed worldwide attention after slamming the November killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as "a criminal act."

The ex-CIA director under the Barack B.O. regime, John Brennan, said during the interview with Israel’s Haaretz that late Iranian Top General Qasem Soleimani was his personal "nemesis" during his work for the agency.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 12/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Iranian leaders would be wise to wait for the return of responsible American leadership

Arsehole.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/10/2020 2:27 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Could anyone please clarify for me if a Nemesis is above or below Archenemy in the Hierarchy of Evil(TM)? I know it definitely outranks Henchman.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/10/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Because Obama liked Soleimani better?
Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/10/2020 12:19 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 Snark of the day?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/10/2020 13:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Soliemmani was Brennan's arch nemesis?

And we should believe Brennan, a known, un-prosecuted liar under oath before Congress for what reason?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/10/2020 17:50 Comments || Top||



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