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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Rep. Cawthorn says he's been invited to orgies by OLD lawmakers and watched lawmakers do cocaine during time in D.C.
[JustTheNews] Congressman's comment in response to question about how life in Washington compares to its portrayal in TV show "House of Cards"

Freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn says that during his roughly 14-months in Washington, D.C., he has been invited to orgies and fellow lawmakers have done cocaine in front of him.

The North Carolina Republican made the comments on a recent episode of "Warrior Poet Society" podcast.

Cawthorn discusses the ways in which political life in Washington, D.C., compares to the TV show "House of Cards."

Just before the four-minute mark of the episode, Cawthorn says that during his time in government lawmakers to whom he has looked up throughout his life have invited him to orgies.

"I look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to through my life, I've always paid attention to politics. Then all of the sudden you get invited to: 'Well hey we’re going to have kind of a sexual get together at one of our homes, you should come,'" the first-term congressman host John Lovell.

"I’m like: 'What did you just ask me to come to?" Cawthorn continued. "Then you realize they are asking you to come to an orgy."

Cawthorn then remarked that some of the people who are "leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country" have done illicit drugs in front of him. "You watch them do, you know, a key bump of cocaine right in front of you and it’s like 'Wow, this is wild," he said.

Cawthorn's marriage ended after just eight-months, with he and his ex-wife acknowledging the difficult transition to public life.

Posted by: Jager Clinter5582 || 03/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Yeah, so?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2022 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  these people that I’ve looked up to through my life, .... Then all of the sudden you get invited to: 'Well hey we’re going to have kind of a sexual get together at one of our homes, you should come'

"Through my life" means... they've been in politics for 20 plus years... We knew Miss Lindsey was a kinkster, but McConnell?? Didn't know the ol' turtle had it in him

Posted by: Chesney Bucket5400 || 03/29/2022 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Names or it didn't happen.
Posted by: Omolutch White6432 || 03/29/2022 2:16 Comments || Top||

#4  "And some of them? They even... [whispers] they even take the lord's name in vain sometimes."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/29/2022 2:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Names or it didn't happen.

Normally, we would want pictures, but in this case, just... no.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/29/2022 4:09 Comments || Top||

#6  You mean it's NOT like West Wing?
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/29/2022 7:08 Comments || Top||

#7 

Isn't it about time to require Drug and Mental testing of all Elected and Appoint officials 2x a year and 1x during their sessions?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2022 8:33 Comments || Top||

#8  I suppose that’s one way to really get to know the people one will be working with...

We knew Miss Lindsey was a kinkster

You knew. This is one of many, many thoughts that never occurred to me, even though the infamous Senator Ted Kennedy only died in 2009, and his waitress sandwich buddy Chris Dodd was on Joe Biden’s VP vetting committee, though he left the senate in 2011.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2022 8:48 Comments || Top||

#9 
Now Pelosi showing up to the party.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2022 10:23 Comments || Top||

#10  "Palomino!"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2022 10:27 Comments || Top||

#11  AOC and the squad do DC
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/29/2022 11:01 Comments || Top||

#12  Wealthy men working in DC, many far away from their family. Seems likely there would be a lot of hookers and mistresses. Seems unlikely they'd talk about, do it in front of someone they've only known a short while, or have orgies.
Posted by: ruprecht || 03/29/2022 13:37 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Google billionaire Eric Schmidt has PAID the salaries of staff inside Biden's science office and has been quietly lobbying on policy since the Obama administration
  • The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OTSP) helps formulate AI policy and steer funding toward the technology

  • Eric Schmidt, who stepped down in his role at Google's parent company Alphabet in 2020, now serves on the board of numerous tech companies

  • Schmidt even indirectly paid the salaries of OTSP employees, the report states

  • Former OTSP general counsel Rachel Wallace repeatedly raised concerns over Schmidt's influence, Politico reported

  • She believes her concerns were the source of the wrath she faced from OTSP's former head Eric Lander, who stepped down recently for bullying

  • Lander and Schmidt are close associates

  • More than a dozen in the 140-person White House office are current or former employees of Schmidt

  • In a statement, Schmidt Futures said he had no authority to make any policy decisions and did not do so through OSTP

  • They also said the government and OSTP has used pooled philanthropic funding to ensure proper staffing across agencies for over 25 years
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2022 07:02 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
PHOTOS: Biden caught using cue cards in trying to paper over Ukraine gaffe about ousting Putin
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2022 09:05 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Looking at the cue Card Q&A.

It looks like the WH Press staff has trained the MSM to do their bidding.

Or did the MSM issue the Questions and Answers to Biden stay in line with their own private narrative?☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2022 10:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Scripted theater sold as an honest process. The MSM is now merely clandestine propagandists for the demokrat party. Verbatim questions in order and verbatim answers, except he can't deliver his lines consistently because in moments of clarity caused by the meds, he thinks he actually is a President, not a trained seal waiting for a pudding cup backstage.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/29/2022 11:38 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Trump likely committed crimes to stop transfer of power, judge says
[DW] A federal judge has found it "more likely than not" that Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
illegally tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The judge ordered John Eastman, a Trump lawyer, to turn over emails to Sherlocks.


A US federal judge on Monday found it "more likely than not" that former President Donald Trump illegally sought to obstruct congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election in an attempt to overthrow the elected government of Democrat Joe The Big Guy Biden
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2022 00:37 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"This court finds you guilty of wishing real hard that you win against this court's master." [bangs gavel]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/29/2022 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2  "more likely than not"

A cogent and telling legal argument from Judge Crater Carter...
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/29/2022 7:11 Comments || Top||

#3  "more likely than not"

That's called solid facts in a kangaroo court!
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/29/2022 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4 

When any Political Party owns the courts ...
Need I finish the comment?

But given the Judges BIAS statement shouldn't he be removed from any further actions related to this trial?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2022 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ in 1998, according to Ballotpedia. Carter also previously ran as a Democrat to represent California's 38th Congressional District, but his efforts were unsuccessful, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2022 8:36 Comments || Top||

#6  "more likely than not"

That should hold up on appeal....and I'm a Nigerian prince.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/29/2022 8:44 Comments || Top||

#7  So since when can the Star Chamber Select Committee perform Criminal Investigations?
They have no authority.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/29/2022 13:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Correction:
So since when can the Star Chamber Select Committee perform Criminal Investigations?
They have no authority.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/29/2022 13:53 Comments || Top||

#9  and NO real Republicans
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2022 14:32 Comments || Top||


Bidens silent as son's former friend and business partner faces jail, financial ruin
[NYPOST] Hunter Biden’s former best friend, Devon Archer, has been betrayed and abandoned by the Biden family — and who could blame him for feeling aggrieved?

The president’s son, who once told Archer he was "part of a great family — not a sideshow, not deserted by them even in your darkest moments," won’t return calls to his former business partner.

Now, barring a last-ditch appeal by his lawyer, Archer has less than five weeks left before he has to go to jail to serve a one-year, one-month sentence over a fraud he says he had no knowledge his then-partners were committing, and which cost him his life’s savings.

Friends who attended the sentencing in Manhattan last month say that the father of three has mentally prepared himself for prison, and that his hopes for a presidential pardon have faded.

Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York two weeks ago rejected Archer’s arguments to postpone prison time and the forfeiture of his assets, warning that if his sentencing appeal is successful, "he might well receive a higher sentence."
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Want to start a pool for when Archer will Epstein himself?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/29/2022 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Why such dopey names? They sound like oil and gas companies: Devon, Hunter...
Posted by: Elmaviger Jones7245 || 03/29/2022 0:49 Comments || Top||

#3  It reads as if he's so shocked the Bidens let him down. A tool like that was never favored by Darwin. One for the 'Friends of the democrats' deathpool.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/29/2022 3:28 Comments || Top||

#4 
Food for Thought
What is to keep J.B. from pardoning H.B. after the 2024 election?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2022 8:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, consider this scenario: The dem brain trust decides very soon now that Joe will not be their candidate in 2024. That means Hunter must be rushed through the court system and convicted of whatever he is to be pardoned of before Joey's single term ends in January 2025. It would be risky to assume that any incoming dem successor would have any incentive to damage their own credibility by issuing a pardon to Hunter. There also exists the risk, however minor, that the next president won't be a dem at all. Should that occur, there will be no incentive whatsoever to pardon Hunter at all.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/29/2022 9:03 Comments || Top||


Milwaukee officials face Zuckerberg-related election bribery lawsuit
[JUSTTHENEWS] Three Milwaukee, Wisconsin, officials face accusations of illegally taking "Zuck Bucks" to facilitate voting by purchasing absentee ballot drop boxes, among other things, according to a lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Society.

The complaint, filed last week against Milwaukee Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson, former Mayor Tom Barrett, and City Clerk Jim Owczarski, claims the officials violated Wisconsin's election bribery law by taking private donations from the non-profit Center for Tech and Civic Life, which is funded by billionaire Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates....
and his wife, Priscilla Chan.

"This is representative of a national trend," Thomas More Society Special Counsel Erick Kaardal said in a blurb. "Sixteen states have now passed legislation to ban or regulate the acceptance and use of private funds by public election officers. Thomas More Society attorneys, prior to the 2020 election, were the first to litigate this issue. Thomas More Society lawyers filed litigation in nine states. "All of this litigation led to successful legislative action to ban this 'dark money.'"

Former President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
called Zuckerberg "a criminal" last year for reportedly spending hundreds of millions of dollars through the Center for Tech and Civic Life in the 2020 election.

The Thomas More Society has filed five lawsuits in Wisconsin. The Milwaukee follows cases in Racine, Green Bay, Kenosha and Madison, all of which asserted that officials violated election law by accepting money from the Zuckerberg-funded election group.

"We can’t undo the wrongs of the 2020 election," Kaardal said. "But it is incumbent upon us to ensure that the corruption that infected Wisconsin’s voting process is rooted out and that the state’s election integrity is preserved."
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

So will the LSD's offer them up as SACRIFICIAL LAMBS, or just use an already bought and paid-for DA/Judge to clear them?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2022 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  So, why not go after Zuckerburg rather than these low-level rogues?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2022 18:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Centi-billionaires tend to have good lawyers on call, JohnQC.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2022 18:42 Comments || Top||


Hunter Biden's $142K Fisker sports car scrutinized in tax probe: report
[NYPOST] Prosecutors leading the Hunter Biden tax probe are investigating his purchase of a $142,000 plug-in hybrid sports car whose manufacturer defaulted on a massive B.O. regime loan touted by his father, according to a report Monday.

Some of the testimony presented to a Delaware grand jury also appears to be intended to prevent the first son from mounting a defense based on his admittedly sordid history of drug and alcohol abuse, the Wall Street Journal said.

That testimony came from a former girlfriend, Zoe Kestan, 28, who last month testified about shacking up with Biden, 52, in swanky hotels in New York City and Los Angeles and making lavish purchases during 2018, a source familiar with the matter told The Post.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Biden Will Ask Congress For $32 Billion To Fund The Police
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] President Joe Biden will propose a $5.8 trillion Fiscal Year 2023 budget Monday

  • It will include $32 billion in funding for law enforcement and crime prevention

  • Comes despite years-long calls from progressives to defund the police

  • Biden has distanced himself from this rhetoric going into the 2022 midterms

  • 'We should all agree – the answer is not to defund the police, it's to fund the police,' the president said during his State of the Union address this month

  • Crime has been on the rise, especially in cities, over the last two years and Americans have expressed they don't feel safe in their communities

  • The FY2023 budget proposal will also include a 20% minimum tax on households worth more than $100 million
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And the police will be lucky to see $32 Million.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/29/2022 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ It will include $32 billion in funding for law enforcement DNC slush funds and crime prevention corruption...
Posted by: magpie || 03/29/2022 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Let's not forget a little walkin' around money. These communities ain't gonna organize themselves.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/29/2022 3:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Con men with lifetime political power. They go back again and again. I wondered what the DNC types would do with Putin cutting off their cash cow Ukraine.DNC alone was gifted 10 million.
Posted by: Dale || 03/29/2022 3:55 Comments || Top||

#5 
"As you all know, crime has been riding ever since I was elected. Parts of thus country look like motherfcuking Libya sometimes!"

[minder nudges elbow, points to cue card]

"Uhh... So... Yes. We need stronger policing! And the police, well they need money, those lousy pot bellied bast..."

[minder nudges firmly, hands next cue card]

"Ha ha... the lousy criminals err... lousing up the cities. We need cops to put them in their place right? Why some o' those beanie wearing..."

[minder whacks him upside the head]

"I mean ... Look. We need 32 billion dollars. I mean America needs to spend the exact figure of 32 billion dollars to..."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/29/2022 4:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Extortion by another name.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2022 4:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Payola for his loyal troopers. Little of the money will make it to Red States.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 03/29/2022 7:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Local policing is a local matter not federal. Maybe like Germany, they should spend less on virtue signaling and more on primary responsibilities of government like security.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/29/2022 8:20 Comments || Top||

#9 
There are 17,985 U.S. police agencies/dept. in the United States, which include about 654,900 sworn officers.

$32B divided by 654,900 = 48,862.42 each, divided by 12 months = $4,071.86 more per month.

Of course, it is more than likely the LEO's will only see a small raise.
It is more likely 90% of it will make its way into Local and State Politician's hands for "creative" Social Justice and Police re-training.

Either way, it sure sounds like a $$$ Around About BRIBE $$$ with hopes to get Police support in 2022 and 2024.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2022 8:51 Comments || Top||

#10  "The FY2023 budget proposal will also include a 20% minimum tax on households worth more than $100 million"

Notes:
* In 2021, the USA generated $6.6T in purchases/sales
* Had $19.5T GDP,
* and collected roughly $4.05T Tax revenue.


BTW: In 2021, the United States give $38B for foreign aid spending. With about 154M registered US voters that works out to about $246.75 for each voter. How much did you have to work to cover that donation?

OBTW: An average US Taxpayer gets hit with about 28.3% in total Federal Taxes. Or about $18,368 of an “average wage earner’s” salary. (according to OECD calculations)

The average annual wage in 2019 in the US was $51,916.27.
How about a 10% Flat Tax for EVERYONE with no deductions and political economy steering?

Because $5,196.00 sure sounds a lot better than $18,368.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2022 9:20 Comments || Top||

#11  with no deductions

If you want to promote the next generation, you might want to include a child deduction.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/29/2022 9:29 Comments || Top||

#12  ^11
Based on what I see on TV-News, maybe a deduction NOT TO have kids is a better idea. I feel assured the LSD crowd would likely account for 90% to 95% in line for the $$$$. ☻☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||



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