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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Prince Harry 'infuriated' after King Charles refused to put Meghan Markle on payroll: book
[NYPOST] Prince Harry
was "infuriated" after King Charles refused to put Princess Meghan Markle
...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. Once married, she was too good for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, thus making a joke of Harry and the royal family heritage...
on the royal family payroll, a new book claims.

The monarch reportedly broke the news to the "spare" prince in 2016, just moments after Harry revealed he planned on marrying the American actress, royal correspondent Robert Jobson wrote in his new book, "Our King."

"Are you sure, Harold?" Prince William asked his younger brother.

Then-Prince Charles delivered the second blow — rather than congratulating Harry, the future king said he couldn’t afford to pay Meghan as a member of the royal family because he was already bankrolling Camilla and William’s growing family, Jobson states in an excerpt obtained by the Daily Mail.

"This infuriated Harry," wrote Jobson, who also authored two books on Princess Diana alongside her former bodyguard Ken Wharfe.

The "bombshell" led to one of the initial falling-outs between father and son.

Charles stopped taking Harry’s calls after his son swore at him and repeatedly asked for funds.

Posted by: Fred || 04/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe Harry can get a job to make up the difference. Something that he is good at, like donate organs.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/09/2023 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Meghan and I finally have something in common.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2023 1:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Isn't she is already getting a checks from the Far Left, Social Media and Hollywood?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/09/2023 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  I can't imagine that her residual checks are that large.

Useful idiots are soon forgotten.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/09/2023 8:43 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess if the choice were between Markle and Dylan Mulvaney... you might pay the bimbo off
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/09/2023 10:26 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 I am led to believe she has been edged out by Emo Phillips on the residual scale.
Posted by: Cesare || 04/09/2023 10:30 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Lol. That's cold, Cesare!
Posted by: Frank G || 04/09/2023 11:26 Comments || Top||

#8  The Ginger Idiot and Dirtbag Duchess have spent all their history, palace gossip and faux outrage. Wills and the King will invite them to the coronation, freezer cheap seats, and give them nothing to use for the next book and interview.
Since they have no other talent except whining, they are dropping from B-list to yawn very quickly. Once that slide bottoms out, the "celebrity actress" will play the money card, and divorce Duke Harry for the last payday. Then she turns angry, black ex-royal and hopes for a seat on the View, the perfect ending in Obama's America.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/09/2023 11:45 Comments || Top||

#9  father and son.

Yeah, right.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/09/2023 11:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Hollyweird is the suck-up Olympics. They will have wealth hangers on as long as they keep getting in the news with their yammering.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/09/2023 12:38 Comments || Top||

#11  Shut the fuck up and go away, Harry.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/09/2023 14:48 Comments || Top||

#12  Giving them their privacy is important to me. I ignore everything they do.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/09/2023 15:13 Comments || Top||

#13  i like harold. He did two tours in Afghanistan (the place 'brandon' abandoned). When charles abdicates William should appoint harold ambassador at large.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 04/09/2023 15:23 Comments || Top||

#14  Harold, huh? Shudda been named Henry and maybe he have gotten a clue by now.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/09/2023 16:09 Comments || Top||

#15  He balked at her proposed job title: "Official Royal Influencer."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/09/2023 16:15 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Veterans blast Biden admin for protecting 'corrupt politicians' by denying 'chaos' of Afghanistan withdrawal
[NYPOST] US veterans are blasting the White House as liars for portraying the military withdrawal of Afghanistan as a success — insisting that Biden’s lackeys are abandoning veterans to protect "corrupt politicians."

The retired soldiers lambasted National Security Council front man John Kirby after he blamed former president Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
for paving the way for the chaotic 2021 evacuation.

Biden, Kirby claimed, had no intention of withdrawing troops before learning of Trump’s promise to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
— and downplayed the criticism of the rushed evacuation mission, in which 13 US servicemembers bit the dust.

"For all this talk of chaos, I just didn’t see it, not from my perch," said Kirby.

"I just won’t buy the whole argument of chaos.

"It was tough in the first few hours, you would expect it to be."

The military mouthpiece’s comments infuriated veterans across the country.

Chad Robichaux — an Afghanistan war veteran and co-founder of the Save Our Allies group that helped Americans safely escape Afghanistan and Ukraine — accused former Navy rear admiral Kirby of abandoning his loyalties for veterans in favor of "protecting corrupt politicians in DC."

"It is no shocker when Biden or his clown-show press secretaries lie, but to have a former US Navy admiral do the same is a national tragedy," Robichaux seethed to Fox News on Saturday.

"As a fellow veteran it makes me sad to see former military leaders turn on our citizens for personal and political gain."

Posted by: Fred || 04/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  These vets are the last people in the whole wide world the DC swamp people should be pissing off right in their back yard.
Posted by: Slats Snore5077 || 04/09/2023 3:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump's deal with the Taliban was a real item but

-it was not ratified by Congress and thus had no legal standing

- the Taliban violated their side of the deal and thus, even it had been ratified, the US was not required to abide by it

- in any event, Biden didn't abide by the Trump deal which called for US forces to be out in May 2021 - Biden's withdrawal was Aug 2021
Posted by: lord garth || 04/09/2023 4:29 Comments || Top||

#3  The liberal neo-cons have exhibited deliberate indifference regarding Afghanistan since the early part of the Obama administration. It progressed to criminal negligence and finally criminally negligent homicide when we lost the 13 troops and who knows how many Afghan partners (there were many good ones) when the country collapsed.

The SecDef demands accountability from his subordinates, but none for himself or his POTUS.
The lack of accountability will lead to another disaster.

Further, there seems to be no interest in uncovering who provided the Taliban the funds to pay an entire country's military and political leadership to surrender. It is possible that China provided the funds to the Taliban and that these funds were derived from the sale of fentanyl to the US...if so, then this was a total complete defeat that makes 9-11 pale in comparison.
Posted by: Tennessee || 04/09/2023 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Would that Biden felt similarly bound by a lot of other Trump policies.
Posted by: Tom || 04/09/2023 13:32 Comments || Top||

#5  I am sure the Pentagon reviewed the withdrawal at a lower level and awarded a bunch of O-5 types medals for various heroic actions like luggage coordination and superior latrine logistics.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/09/2023 15:51 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Super Hose, also terrific PowerPoint™ presentations!
Posted by: magpie || 04/09/2023 22:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
George Soros' son has visited White House more than a dozen times since Biden took office, records show
[FoxNews] Alexander Soros has visited the White House at least 14 times since 2021.

FOX Business correspondent Kelly O’Grady reports that billionaire George Soros’ son Alex has donated over $5.7 million into Democratic PACs and campaigns since 2018.

Alexander Soros, son of liberal billionaire George Soros, has made frequent visits to the White House since President Biden took office in 2021, meeting with top officials on behalf of his 92-year-old father.

Soros — who has worked to carry his father's torch as he has assisted with fundraising efforts for the Democratic Party — traveled to the White House at least 14 times since October 2021 and had meetings with multiple officials in 2022, according to White House visitor logs reviewed by Fox News Digital.

The logs detailing visits by Soros to the White House were first reported by the New York Post on Saturday and revealed that the billionaire's son made a trip to the White House on December 1, 2022, the day he met with then-Chief of Staff Ron Klain's assistant, Nina Srivastava, who also served on Biden's presidential campaign.

That December visit to the White House, according to the Post, took place on the same day a state dinner attended by Alexander Soros was held by the first family to honor French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

One day later, on December 2 of last year, records showed that Soros had meetings with Mariana Adame, advisor to the counselor to the president, and Deputy National Security Advisor Jonathan Finer.

Records showed previous trips to the White House by Soros, who serves as chair of the Open Society Foundations, founded by his father in the 1990s, included earlier 2022 meetings with Adame on Oct. 14, Srivastava on Sept. 14, and Finer on three different occasions (Dec. 15, Oct. 6 and Sept. 15).

The updated visitors log also revealed that Soros had meetings at the White House with Kimberly Lang, then a National Security Advisor executive assistant, on October 6, as well as former Klain advisor Madeline Strasser on Oct. 29, 2021, and April 22, 2022.

Heritage Foundation Oversight Project director Mike Howell told Fox News Digital that the visits by Alexander Soros to the White House are concerning, as the Soros family "has done incalculable damage to our country." He continued, "The death and destruction of their policies are evident at our borders and in our crime-infested cities. The left is addicted to their money, and they don't even bother hiding it anymore."

Alexander Soros' social media accounts document numerous meetings with high-profile leaders from around the world, featuring photos of the liberal billionaire's son with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Cindy McCain, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from Nov. 2021 to April 2023 and is the widow of the late former Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Other photos shared to his Instagram account showed Alexander Soros standing alongside former President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Macron.

The Soros family recently came under fire for its involvement in pushing to prominence Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose investigations into Trump led to an indictment of the former president last week.

Fox News Digital previously reported that in May 2021, George Soros pushed $1 million to the Color of Change PAC, which turned around and spent big, backing Bragg's candidacy.

Soros' son Jonathan Soros, and Jonathan's wife, Jennifer Allan Soros, also donated directly to Bragg's campaign, according to New York campaign finance records reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2023 10:31 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I bet he visited Obama more.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/09/2023 16:02 Comments || Top||

#2  When you are talking to Susan Rice, you ARE talking to Obama, and the cabal that supports him.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/09/2023 17:14 Comments || Top||

#3  If you visit Obama directly, there is no visitors log and there is no middle man other than Michelle.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/09/2023 17:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe he sells adult diapers.
Posted by: Airandee || 04/09/2023 18:43 Comments || Top||


VP Harris ripped for meeting expelled Tenn. Dems — but not mass shooting victims
[NYPOST] Conservatives blasted Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
’ surprise trip to Tennessee Friday to meet with the expelled Democratic politicians — while appearing to snub the victims of the Nashville mass shooting they were ousted for protesting.

The Veep took a last-minute trip to the Tennessee capital Friday to meet with two state politicians who were expelled from the General Assembly for protesting in favor of gun control in the wake of the shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville that left six dead, including three children.
"protesting"? Nahhh they were disrupting an official proceeding with bullhorns and not obeying the institutional rules. Put em in with the J6ers
Harris privately met with ousted Democratic Reps. Justin Jones and Rep. Justin Pearson — as well as Rep. Gloria Johnson, who avoided expulsion by just one vote, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
reported.

She also met with advocates and the entire Democratic Tennessee state caucus — but notably did not visit the victims and families of the deadly school shooting, sparking intense outrage from critics.

"Kamala Harris isn’t going to Tennessee to meet with the families of those who died in the horrific shooting," political commentator Dan Eberhart tweeted Friday.

"She’s going there to meet with Democrats who are upset over facing consequences for their actions."

Posted by: Fred || 04/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She doesn't do well around non-sycophants.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/09/2023 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  She said the disruption of the legislative session was democracy in action. I don't like her form of democracy.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/09/2023 9:02 Comments || Top||

#3  She doesn't do well around non-sycophants.

Fixed it for you Mullah.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/09/2023 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  If you ask me the victims and their families are blessed not to have the cackle-machine visit. She'd only piss on their graves.

Remember: The Biden Administration *celebrated* their murders. Don't forget the Nashville Six!
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 04/09/2023 10:38 Comments || Top||

#5  I think they are sensitive to make sure they only give her assignments that are already broken. She breaks them worse, but Biden sniffing various people would not have played better. In the end, nobody wants wants her installed in the Oval Office except maybe Iran.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/09/2023 15:43 Comments || Top||


#7  About those two Tennessee tools...
[FF]
"But what is more racist than rules?"
Posted by: Clem Glealet1147 || 04/09/2023 23:59 Comments || Top||


Dems play same old hand: The Trump Card
[NYPOST] If you are a consumer of Democratic Party propaganda, you learned over the last two years that Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
is not only a unique threat to democracy, he also single-handedly caused inflation, created the crisis at our southern border and ran up the scandalous national debt.

Just last week, you learned of two more ways the former president is destroying America.

First, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg
...Soros-financed, -owned, and -operated woke Manhattan DA. A prosecutorial loose cannon who feels entitled to pick and choose which laws to enforce and can't be bothered to respond civilly to Congressional inquiries unless they're from Dems...
declared that voters in the 2016 presidential race were deprived of key facts that could have made Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
the winner.

Bragg appears to be insisting she lost because, in 2017, Trump reimbursed a lawyer for giving Stormy Daniels and two other people hush money.

Later last week, President Biden also tried to rewrite history by claiming that, despite near-universal belief that he, as commander in chief, was responsible for the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, it was actually and totally — drumroll please — Donald Trump’s fault.

A visitor from Mars might reasonably wonder who this fellow Trump is and how he remains a free man despite doing so many terrible things.

To which his tormentors could answer that they have a plan to end his free man status.

What would Democrats do without Donald Trump?

The short answer is they would have to find somebody else to hate and blame.

Posted by: Fred || 04/09/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What would Democrats do without Donald Trump?

Same thing they would do without Russian, Russia, Russia.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2023 1:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Same old song: ♫ The current GOP leader is Hitler, Hitler, Hitler
Posted by: magpie || 04/09/2023 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  They feel the pressure and make mistakes. The go along to get along crowd do us a great disservice.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/09/2023 15:23 Comments || Top||



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  Forty-four dead in two attacks in Burkina Faso
Sat 2023-04-08
  Lebanon to file complaint at UN Security Council over Israeli 'aggression.' Really.
Fri 2023-04-07
  34 rockets fired from southern Leb by Islamic Jihad
Thu 2023-04-06
  Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for burning alive three southern Yemeni separatist prisoners
Wed 2023-04-05
  Clashes between armed groups in Syria's Aleppo lead to casualties
Tue 2023-04-04
  al-Qaeda commander dronezapped in Syria's Idlib
Mon 2023-04-03
  Car bombing rocks Syrian capital Damascus, state media says
Sun 2023-04-02
  ISWAP Terrorists Launch Midnight Attack On Nigerian Police Station In Borno State
Sat 2023-04-01
  California police union executive director ran fentanyl operation from home: feds
Fri 2023-03-31
  Gun control activists storm Tennessee State Capitol
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  Fort Campbell helicopter crash: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear confirms multiple fatalities expected
Wed 2023-03-29
  IEDs kill 10, injure 12 in Syria’s Hama
Tue 2023-03-28
  ISWAP Commander, Abu Muhammed, Allegedly Executes Deputy Over Military Attack On Hideout
Mon 2023-03-27
  Nigerian Troops ‘Storm ISWAP Hideout, Kill Commander, 40 Other Terrorists’ In Borno
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