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-Obits-
Decriminalizing gang bangers
[AMERICANTHINKER] 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...
now is like Dodge City before Marshal Dillon arrived: a fatal shootout on its streets is no crime because both sides were shooting. The Windy City already is world-famous for shootouts on its streets, with an astounding 3,625 shootings so far this year, 623 of them fatal. (That corpse count would be higher save for the city’s superb medical care for gunshot victims, made possible by all the practice its trauma surgeons receive.) But how many more shooting matches will start now that the word is going out that you can escape charges in a gang shootout -- even if someone is killed -- if both sides are shooting? An escalating number of shootouts is the inescapable implication of the decision of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office to release all five suspects arrested in a fatal shootout between rival gangs in the city’s Southside Austin neighborhood, not too far from the Obama Monument. The head of that office, Kim Foxx, was elected with considerable financial support from George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
, who has helped elect many soft-on-crime prosecutors across the US. Tom Schuba writes in the Chicago Sun-Times:

Five men linked to a deadly gang-related shootout Friday in Austin were released from custody after prosecutors declined to charge each of them with a pair of felonies, including first-degree murder, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

The brazen mid-morning shootout, which left one shooter dead and two of the suspects maimed, stemmed from an internal dispute between two factions of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, according to an internal police report and a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation.

The source said police sought to charge all five suspects with murder and aggravated battery. By Sunday morning, a Chicago police spokeswoman acknowledged the suspects had "been released without charges."

In a statement later Sunday, Cristina Villareal, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, explained that prosecutors had "determined that the evidence was insufficient to meet our burden of proof to approve felony charges." Police officials agreed with the decision, Villareal added.

While she wouldn’t specify what other evidence prosecutors needed to file charges, the police report acknowledged that victims of the shootout weren’t cooperating with Sherlocks.

But the report also framed the state’s attorney’s office’s decision to decline charges in a different light: "Mutual combatants was cited as the reason for the rejection." Mutual combat is a legal term used to define a fight or struggle that two parties willingly engage in.



Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, as long as they only kill each other and not innocent bystanders, who cares?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2021 5:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Mrs Mundi n I were discussing this new term "mutual combat". We concluded that only some folks are afforded such rights. If someone tries to defend themselves against BLM or Antifa, they WILL go to jail.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/06/2021 10:51 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Sick Twitter trolls mock Fla. Gov. DeSantis' wife, Casey, over breast cancer diagnosis
[NYPOST] The news that Casey DeSantis, the wife of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
, had been diagnosed with breast cancer was met with an outpouring of sympathy from Democrats and Republicans alike — but was also greeted with sick jubilation and mockery from the darker corners of social media.

Democratic Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is running to unseat DeSantis in next year’s gubernatorial election, tweeted: "Our hearts are with Florida’s First Lady Casey DeSantis and her family. We are all praying for you!"

After repeating the message in Spanish, Fried fired off a preemptive warning to would-be trolls.

"If you choose to reply to this tweet, please show some empathy," she said. "Casey is a mother of three and deserves our support in this difficult fight."

Her warning appeared to come in response to several politically motivated nasty tweets about the Florida first lady’s battle.

"I feel sorry for Casey DeSantis, not only to get such a horrible diagnosis but also face the prospect of Ron DeSantis choosing between (a) helping protect his wife’s immune system by wearing a mask; and (b) pandering to anti-maskers for his voracious political ambitions," tweeted Canadian comedian Deven Green, who often performs as the character Mrs. Betty Bowers, "America’s Best Christian."

"I wish Casey DeSantis well," wrote another Twitter user claiming to be a "Front line ICU MP." "I hope she is smart enough not to allow her husband treat her breast cancer with Ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine."
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Gran-Pa how old are you?
When I was you age liberals were nice, sweet people that cared about others and protested to demand the Bill of Rights be followed.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/06/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Make fun of someone with Breast Cancer.

derp derp derp
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Such caring, compassionate people! Just the sort you want in positions of power and authority.

Especially if you are doing one of those Pol Pot Year-Zero "Let's totally remake society" things.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/06/2021 15:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Then come right back and tell you what medical procedures they want you to do, for your own good.

Canadian comedian Deven Green, who often performs as the character Mrs. Betty Bowers, "America’s Best Christian.

Yeah, that about sums it up. It's The Serious People, Y'all!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2021 15:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Projecting all of their sickest fantasies and fetishes...
Posted by: magpie || 10/06/2021 16:39 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Yep, sick bastids. Totally sick.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2021 17:48 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
CDC recommends ''virtual Thanksgiving'' this year
I recommend virtual obedience.
[HOTAIR] After the patron saint of restricting Americans’ freedoms suggested we might need to cancel Christmas, I suppose this shouldn’t come as all that much of a surprise. The CDC is announcing today that they are recommending that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving virtually again this year. You probably don’t need me to tell you that this is one turkey of an idea that Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...
isn’t going to be able to make fly. But the new guidelines have all sorts of unpleasant nuggets built into them for any of you dangerous people who still insist on carving up the turkey with your family. Oh, and you have to scroll down to the bottom of the announcement to find it, but they’re saying the same thing for Halloween as well.
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

☺ The CDC citing 1619 fictional paper as gospel.
The CDC now see's the 200+ year tradition of Thanksgiving as a threat to WOKE. Because it promotes a unified family concept and practice. ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/06/2021 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Well in that spirit: Stuff It.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2021 18:19 Comments || Top||

#3  CDC recommends you rotate your tires every 6,000 miles.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2021 18:20 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Biden admin mobilizes FBI against parents opposing CRT and COVID restrictions
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] After the National School Board Association called on the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
to take action against unruly parents who keep showing up at school board meetings, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland
Let us pause a moment to grateful that man is merely attorney general rather than a Supreme Court justice, in office for life, dear Reader. Senator Mitch McConnell has his faults, to be sure, but he got that right.
has taken up the cause against parents. The NSBA encouraged the Biden administration to classify the actions of concerned parents as "the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes."

The letter from the NSBA was sent to President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. A latter-day version of Romulus Augustulus, only more friendly to the barbarians at the gates......
last week. "America's public schools and its education leaders are under immediate threat," the letter read, saying that the NSBA "respectfully asks for federal law enforcement and other assistance to deal with the growing number of threats and violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation."

The letter from the NSBA cites incidents of impassioned parents who have become aggressive at school board meetings, writing that "As these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes."

"As such," it continues, "NSBA requests a joint expedited review by the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Homeland Security, along with the appropriate training, coordination, investigations, and enforcement mechanisms from the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
, including any technical assistance necessary from, and state and local coordination with, its National Security Branch and Counterterrorism Division, as well as any other federal agency with relevant jurisdictional authority and oversight."

Garland's DOJ, which has stated that a primary concern is domestic extremism, wrote that the FBI and US Attorney's Offices will meet during the next month with law enforcement leaders across the country "to discuss strategies for addressing this disturbing trend."
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  This is not necessarily regarding "threats" to school boards. A top Biden regime official said only a few days ago that parents should have no say regarding their children's education. This is radical and now the regime is going to threaten any one who opposed their radical leftist indoctrination of children with the full force of Deep State. Biden is a corrupt dictator, not a president.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 10/06/2021 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  #FJB
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/06/2021 1:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden admin mobilizes FBI against parents opposing CRT and COVID restrictions Americans

FIFY. They're Marxists. Like all those little paint chips with varying shades, but red none the less.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/06/2021 7:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Garland and Biden just gave every conservative a huge campaign issue for 2022.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/06/2021 7:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Kevin McCarthy accuses Democrats of seeking to 'silence parents'
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/06/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#6  government can get back to doing what it does best: solving problems that government created
Posted by: Retard Strength || 10/06/2021 8:22 Comments || Top||

#7  If they try to enforce this, don't expect a peaceful resolution.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/06/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe the Congress changed the FBI mission statement and I missed it...



But the FBI Web Site still says:

Our Mission -Protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/06/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||

#9  If unruly parents at a school board meeting do anything unlawful, isn't that a matter for local law enforcement? And if such events have occurred, have any school board members called on local law enforcement to enforce the law? Have any charges actually been made? Do we have any examples, anything at all, of threats or violence or intimidation? Where and when? What evidence is there? I ask these questions because I smell steer manure being used to stifle legitimate dissent.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/06/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||

#10  Think of it as a reason to go to a 'judge' to identify and track those who upload effective school board rants. Appropriate malice as part of the process can be determined from the compound.

Got to protect that Harper County PTA.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2021 13:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Thankfully the FBI is no where near as the Stasi they aspire to be. Let’s go Brandon!
Posted by: Regular joe || 10/06/2021 13:44 Comments || Top||

#12  The FBI and the DOJ are the leading causes of domestic extremism at work in the USA at the moment.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/06/2021 14:21 Comments || Top||

#13  The FBI has no authority in these matters. State and local LE only.

This is a means to suppress dissent via threat of Federal intervention where it has no power. A poor tactic and stupid time to try to employ it.

We know ole Merrick Garland is a toothless tiger in this case.
Posted by: Tennessee || 10/06/2021 15:28 Comments || Top||


#15  /\ I'd say old Merrick has some.... skin in the game, but probably not the same as most of us.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2021 17:15 Comments || Top||

#16  This is a means to suppress dissent via threat of Federal intervention where it has no power. A poor tactic and stupid time to try to employ it.

These people are as stupid as they are nasty and vile
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/06/2021 17:21 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Parents respond to DOJ, school boards' statements: 'I am what a domestic terrorist looks like?'
[FOXNEWS] The Justice Department (DOJ) is facing a wave of backlash as parents criticize its recent decision to investigate potential acts of violence against school boards across the country.

It came after the National School Boards Association (NSBA) asked the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
for assistance, suggesting that the threats and acts of violence were similar to domestic terrorism.

"I am what a domestic terrorist looks like?" asked Asra Nomani, vice president of investigations and strategy at Parents Defending Education. "You owe parents an apology!" Nomani's group has been conducting deep research into how school boards across the country are implementing so-called "woke" ideas in their curricula.

Nomani's group has launched a forum on their website that purportedly sends emails to DOJ. The draft email reads: "I urge you to reconsider mobilizing the U.S. Department of Justice against concerned parents who are exercising their First Amendment rights at school board meetings across the country."

"Our country’s children deserve a high-quality education. Please do not criminalize the American citizens that advocate on their behalf."

On Tuesday, Nomani changed her Twitter display name to "Asra Q. Nomani ’Domestic Terrorist’" in an apparent attempt to mock the suspicion of parents like herself. In another tweet, she said Attorney General Merrick Garland had issued a "declaration of war" against parents.

Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State
Posted by: Retard Strength || 10/06/2021 8:57 Comments || Top||

#3  #FDOJ
#FJB
#F this illegitimate nightmare state
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/06/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Illegitimate actions / inactions of the FBI, DOJ, and many school boards are what domestic terrorism looks like.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/06/2021 14:27 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Watch Michigan Resident's Brutal Reaction When He Finds Out Biden Is Going to Visit His Town
[Western Journal] Amid much opposition, President Joe Biden continues to champion his $1 trillion infrastructure plan. His latest pitch took place in Michigan on Tuesday.

Biden won the state in the 2020 election, thanks mostly to large numbers of Democratic voters in Detroit and the surrounding area. But a large majority of counties in Michigan voted for then-President Donald Trump.

When Biden visited to make his questionable infrastructure pitch, he went to one of those pro-Trump counties. Specifically, the president visited the city of Howell in Livingston County, WXYZ-TV reported.

Biden won just 38 percent of the vote in Livingston County, compared with 61 percent for Trump.

If Howell resident Leonard Petty is any indication, the president has not won widespread support in the area during his eight-plus months in office.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2021 09:57 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Also from the article:

Posted by: trailing wife || 10/06/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#2  ...thanks mostly to large numbers of Democratic voters in Detroit and the surrounding area.

Traditional Democratic voters - like dead people, illegal immigrants and thousands upon thousands of photocopied and triple scanned mail-in ballots, all for the Democrat.
Posted by: Raj || 10/06/2021 12:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Michigan is the only place on earth where you can go to Hell and Howell.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/06/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||

#4  ...thanks mostly to large numbers of Democratic voters in Detroit and the surrounding area.

And if it is between 10PM and midnight after polls close you may vote as many times as you want to.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 10/06/2021 17:16 Comments || Top||


With America Splitting, One Side Sees Treason as Highest Form of Patriotism
[THEEPOCHTIMES] Since the early 1970s, when the Baby Boomer acolytes of George McGovern took control of the Democrat Party, the Left has been telling us that "dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

That is to say, the more strongly you oppose the policies and moral values of your country, the more you love it. Like a devoted parent disciplining a wayward child, you are only showing it tough love in order to correct its ways, "fundamentally transforming" it (as Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
might say) in order to improve it.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:


Sen. Sinema harassed again during and after flight to DC
[NYPOST] Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was confronted by another group of activists on Monday during her trip back to Washington, DC, one day after she was accosted while teaching a class at Arizona State University.

During and after her flight to Reagan National Airport, the Arizona Democrat was filmed by protesters who pressed her on her resistance to voting for the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill.

Video footage uploaded to Twitter showed Sinema walking through the airport and talking on her cellphone as several protesters gathered around her, filming on their phones. One protester could be seen holding a sign that read, "Don’t sink our bill."

As a TSA agent walked behind the senator, another protester could be heard asking, "Hi, Senator Sinema, I want to ask if you can explain to the American people what you’re planning on cutting from Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us...
’s Build Back Better plan?"

"Do you want to cut climate priorities? Is that elder care that you want to cut, or is it child care?"
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We're rapidly hurtling toward another James Hodgkinson moment in the Senate.

Someone needs to physically restrain -- better, beat the sh!t out of -- these little vermin before one of them tries to kill Sinema.

So you're here illegally? Then citizen's arrest. Deport your wretched ass
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/06/2021 8:37 Comments || Top||

#2  You notice they don't get close to MTG or Boebert. I wonder if there's something they have in common that Sinema doesn't.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/06/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Sinema's pretty tough. Showing extraordinary grace under pressure I'd say
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/06/2021 11:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Sinema needs to be surrounded by a wall of burly men if she goes out in public. She'd best be carrying heat and wearing body armor too. I see strange things coming...
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/06/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||

#5  "walking through the airport and talking on her cellphone" not safe to be distracted this way, if she is actually using the cell phone. I suppose she could be faking a conversation.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/06/2021 14:25 Comments || Top||

#6  If some lefty crackpot takes Sinema off the board, the GOP would be in the majority by 1 and it's unlikely even a squish like Ducey would name a dem as here replacement.

But crackpots don't think that many steps ahead.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/06/2021 14:57 Comments || Top||


Biden tells GOP to 'get out of the way' on debt limit
[MSN] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us...
on Monday urged Republican senators to "get out of the way" and let Democrats suspend the nation’s debt limit, hoping to keep the U.S. government from bumping dangerously close to a credit default as Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to lend his party’s help.

Biden’s criticism came with Congress facing an Oct 18 deadline to allow for more borrowing to keep the government operating after having accrued a total public debt of $28.4 trillion. The House has passed a measure to suspend the debt limit, but McConnell is forcing Senate Democrats into a cumbersome process that could drag on and approach the deadline with little margin for error.

Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No guts....
Posted by: crazyhorse || 10/06/2021 14:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Biden tells constituency to 'get out of the way'
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/06/2021 14:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's go Brandon
Posted by: Frank G || 10/06/2021 15:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Thought he said a few days ago he was going to get it done without them.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 10/06/2021 23:51 Comments || Top||


Eric Adams: 'Racist' Curtis Sliwa is turning NYC mayoral election into 'circus'
[NYPOST] If there was any doubt before, the gloves are now officially off in the 2021 race to be the next mayor of New York City.

Democratic nominee Eric Adams
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
on Tuesday called Republican rival Curtis Sliwa a "racist" — and accused the Guardian Angels founder of turning the general election to succeed a term-limited 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...
into a "circus."

During an interview on WNYC radio, the Brooklyn borough president offered some of his harshest words yet for his Nov. 2 opponent, saying the GOP contender "has been a leading voice of being a racist."

"I dedicated my life as a police officer for 22 years [to] fighting against the systemic racism
...the idea that the nation is racist to the core, always was, and always will be. 330 million Americans live in Selma, Alabama in 1965, and we're never, ever leaving...
that exists, and just really how we perceive everyday New Yorkers. And so, it’s difficult for Curtis to talk about systemic racism, because he has been a leading voice of being a racist," the former NYPD captain said on "The Brian Lehrer Show," when asked about his perspective on nine FDNY members who were suspended for sending racist messages.

"It’s hard for him to address something that’s systemic, and I’m not afraid to point out where systemic racism exists."

His answer came after Lehrer noted that Sliwa on the same radio show a day earlier characterized the FDNY members as a few bad apples rather than part of a pattern of bigotry.

In response to Adams’ comments, Sliwa fired back with his own allegation Tuesday, saying Adams has a habit of accusing people with whom he has a difference of opinion of being racist.

"This is always his fallback position when he has a disagreement with you: He calls people racist," Sliwa told The Post. "This is all part of the tradition of Eric Adams. If you disagree with Eric Adams, you’re a racist.

"When his back is against the wall, he’s always calling his adversaries racist."

Sliwa cited Adams in January 2020 metaphorically declaring that gentrifiers should "go back" to Iowa and Ohio, as well as the Democrat’s harsh criticism of former primary opponents Andrew Yang
...Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Unlike most of the other Dem 2020 candidates, he actually did things besides politix in his adult life, which made him political poison. He worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive from 2000 to 2009. After he founded Venture for America, the Obama administration selected him in 2012 as a Champion of Change and in 2015 as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. His signature campaign policy is what he calls the Freedom Dividend, a form of Universal Basic Income for every American over 18. Yang believes UBI is a necessary response to the rapid development of automation that is leading to workforce challenges. The other two central elements of Yang's platform are Medicare for All and Human-Centered Capitalism....
and Kathryn Garcia joining forces on the crowded Democratic primary campaign trail on Juneteenth, days before voters went to the polls.

"I’m just going to join the club," Sliwa said. "When Eric Adams doesn’t like you, he calls you a racist."

Adams in his interview also accused Sliwa of making a mockery of the election.

Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, obviously, if you stand in the way of a "African American" person getting something they want - you must be a racist.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2021 1:19 Comments || Top||

#2  I am certain you have noticed that Fox News teevee advertising has suddenly gone totally woke. At least 70% of all Fox commercials now feature African American people. Strangely however, the people featured all dress and speak like mid-western white people and possess supervisory or business owner positions. The 'teevee land' houses they live in are single family, upper middle-class in style and neighborhood. The automobiles they drive also reflect white American tastes.

It's all very strange, but none-the-less interesting and sometimes humorous in a retro "I speak Jive" sort of way.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2021 4:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Sliwa must be doing something right.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/06/2021 12:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Marxism American-style.

Blacks = proletariat

Whites = bourgeoisie

Wokerati/Leftist Dems/BigTech = CPSU

BLM/Antifa = shock troops

Traditional Americans defending the Constitution and civil liberties = Enemies of The People

Small business owners = kulaks

What will be the American version of the gulag?
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/06/2021 12:40 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ FEMA camps.
Posted by: Slats Ulerert8448 || 10/06/2021 13:25 Comments || Top||

#6  FEMA camps

The dark night of fascism? I am reminded of the story Tom Wolfe told about Günter Grass. To whit:

Grass plays a small role in Tom Wolfe’s 1976 essay, “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide To America,” reprinted in his 1982 anthology The Purple Decades, available on the Kindle and an essential introduction to both Wolfe’s early nonfiction, and life in America in the crazed ’60s and ’70s, which today often reads stranger than fiction. Wolfe uses a statement from Grass as a springboard for the saying he helped enter into widespread distribution: “The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” The two men shared the stage at a ruckus 1965 panel at Princeton University, dominated both on the panel and in the audience by paranoid lefties convinced that fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson was the new fascistic boogieman*, including Allen Ginsberg and Merry Prankster Paul Krassner, about whom Wolfe notes:

The next thing I knew, the discussion was onto the subject of fascism in America. Everybody was talking about police repression and the anxiety and paranoia as good folks waited for the knock on the door and the descent of the knout on the nape of the neck. I couldn’t make any sense out of it. I had just made a tour of the country to write a series called “The New Life Out There” for New York magazine. This was the mid-1960’s. The post-World War II boom had by now pumped money into every level of the population on a scale unparalleled in any nation in history. Not only that, the folks were running wilder and freer than any people in history. For that matter, Krassner himself, in one of the strokes of exuberance for which he was well known, was soon to publish a slight hoax: an account of how Lyndon Johnson was so overjoyed about becoming President that he had buggered a wound in the neck of John F. Kennedy on Air Force One as Kennedy’s body was being flown back from Dallas. Krassner presented this as a suppressed chapter from William Manchester’s book Death of a President. Johnson, of course, was still President when it came out. Yet the merciless gestapo dragnet missed Krassner, who cleverly hid out onstage at Princeton on Saturday nights.

Suddenly I heard myself blurting out over my microphone: “My God, what are you talking about? We’re in the middle of a … Happiness Explosion!”

That merely sounded idiotic. The kid up in the balcony did the crying baby. The kid down below did the raccoon … Krakatoa, East of Java … I disappeared in a tidal wave of rude sounds … Back to the goon squads, search-and-seize and roust-a-daddy …

Support came from a quarter I hadn’t counted on. It was Grass, speaking in English.

“For the past hour I have my eyes fixed on the doors here,” he said. “You talk about fascism and police repression. In Germany when I was a student, they come through those doors long ago. Here they must be very slow.”

Grass was enjoying himself for the first time all evening. He was not simply saying, “You really don’t have so much to worry about.” He was indulging his sense of the absurd. He was saying: “You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”

He sounded like Jean-François Revel, a French socialist writer who talks about one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/06/2021 19:00 Comments || Top||


Yellen BACKS the IRS reporting $600 transactions because it will 'fill the tax $7T gap'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended on Tuesday the new requirement that all purchases above $600 be reported to the IRS

  • Said it will help fill the $7 trillion tax gap 'from places where the information on income is opaque and can be hidden'

  • Also said Biden's controversial pick to lead the agency responsible for regulating America's banks deserves a 'fair hearing'

  • 'Professor [Saule] Omarova is the President's nominee... And I think she deserves a fair hearing by the Senate. I hope she will get that'

  • Omarova is a Cornell Law School professor who graduated from college in Moscow, where she attended on a scholarship named after Vladimir Lenin

  • She wrote a paper advocating for the Federal Reserve to take over Americans' personal banking in order to have more policy clout against big banks

  • Republicans and bank lobbyists already oppose her nomination to lead OCC
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Back during the GWBush era, the Federal Govt was working on proving emergency aid to people who had lost their income because of Hurricane Katrina.

Many people provided rudimentary financial records of their income but when the FEMA folks went to verify income in the IRS records they found that a fair number of businesses, typically sole propriatorships, did not file a tax return. They were paid in cash or by check.

Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/06/2021 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Banks will loose big time. People will no longer use banks, cash will be king.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 10/06/2021 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  It'll fill the tax gap - only if you do a forensic audit on everybody filing a tax return.
Posted by: Raj || 10/06/2021 1:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Ref #2: Banks will loose big time. People will no longer use banks, cash will be king.

Banks have essentially become virtual reporting agents of the IRS. They are no longer private entities. A growing number of people have been avoiding banks and traceable check transactions. Bartering, or conducting business via cash has been going on for years. These 'non-taxable' transactions are the actual target of the government.

The reporting of $600. withdrawals is a method of identifying potential larger purchases or services being conducted by cash.

The goal is of course to capture or make visible, bartering, cash payments, and non-reported income. None of these reporting schemes effect the very wealthy who employ tax attorney's, foundations, and overseas banking and investment vehicles to avoid taxes.

The rule of the, different rules.


Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2021 4:34 Comments || Top||

#5  To assume privacy in any digital activity such as communication, commerce, GIVERnment interaction…. Is gone. I suspect monitoring is already going on of banking transactions as the IRS has started hiring agents very aggressively.

If you want to get your name on top of the list. —- buy more than $600 of Ammo at a big box store with your credit card.
Posted by: Airandee || 10/06/2021 6:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Clearly they are attacking the poor. The poor are also uneducated and don't understand what is happening. They will get it if they actually have to pay taxes on unreported income. As far as cash is concerned, there is only so much in circulation. As I understand it only about a trillion. They want to go to a gov't controlled crypto as well. I mean, eventually the $ will be worth less than the paper it's printed on. Billionaires and millionaires will pay taxes if they want to. Generally, taxes are avoidable, legally, for the most part. Sometimes they clip you. The bastards!
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Thromons3612 || 10/06/2021 7:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Helmuth makes a good point.

The bank reporting of deposits is going to catch a lot of the working poor. These are people who do gig work and are paid in cash or by check. Dishwashers, landscape workers, etc.

What people haven't really addressed yet is that a lot of the working poor don't have federal tax liability ($24k for a couple). So they would be guilty of non reporting but not to owe taxes. This is really awful for anyone who thinks through the issue.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/06/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Money is freedom and they are attacking it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/06/2021 12:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended on Tuesday the new requirement that all purchases above $600 be reported to the IRS

Do coyotes eat chickens?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2021 14:06 Comments || Top||

#10  But Comrades, if we do not track every time a citizen purchases a refrigerator, how can we schedule production and allocate resources for the next Five Year Plan?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/06/2021 15:16 Comments || Top||

#11  How about tracking every time an illegal sends remittances back home to Illegal Land? $450 Billion in 2017
Posted by: Frank G || 10/06/2021 15:21 Comments || Top||

#12  $450 Billion in 2017

Gosh, could that be a reason why governments south of our border have little interest in stopping the flow of illegals into the US? I mean, it beats the heck out of trying to build an economy of your own and it's easy to skim a percentage of each transaction.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/06/2021 15:27 Comments || Top||

#13  Once again, "The Weirdos" clear the bases with a blast to left-center.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2021 17:54 Comments || Top||


Blackburn confronts Deputy AG Monaco about crackdown on alleged harassment of school officials
[FOXNEWS] Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on Tuesday confronted U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco over the Justice Department’s new crackdown on the alleged harassment of school officials, saying it will unfairly target parents who oppose the progressive agenda.

Blackburn caught up with Monaco as she was leaving a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked about the DOJ’s memo. The memo directed the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
and U.S. attorney offices to hold meetings with federal, state and local law enforcement leaders within 30 days to discuss ways to combat what the DOJ described as an "increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools."
Ask Sen Sinema's opinion on that.
C-SPAN cameras captured the confrontation between Blackburn and Monaco.

The senator said the "implication" of the memo was that parents who do not adhere to the progressive agenda are to be considered by the state as "violent mostly peaceful."

Monaco attempted to protest, but Blackburn continued, "It’s not always what you say, it’s what people perceive that you are saying. So, I think this is an incredibly dangerous precedent.

"And this coupled with the lack of respect for these young women that came for the Larry Nassar hearing is something that’s not very good for the DOJ right now," Blackburn added, referring to the FBI's mishandling of the sexual abuse of Olympic gymnasts.

"The message that you are sending to parents, to individuals, is, ’You take everything that we say or we’re not going to be there to protect you.’ And I think that’s a very dangerous place to be," the senator continued. "This memo last night looks as if you are second-guessing every parent who is asking the question about what is being taught."
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


They're At It Again
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Unions siphoned $147 million from taxpayer checks before Trump ban

The Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
may soon allow unions to take Medicaid funds from caregivers—a practice the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They are literally stealing money from grandma and grandpa to pay for their politics.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/06/2021 0:18 Comments || Top||



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