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-Great Cultural Revolution
Newsom admits California has 'not made progress' on homeless crisis when pressed by Hannity: 'We own this'
Now this is a non-issue and won't detract from his campaign.
[FoxNews] A third of the US's entire homeless population and half of all unsheltered homeless people live in California.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2023 07:46 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Newsom offers surprising response to Trump indictment
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2023 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  "We lost with Kamala Harris. We lost that representation. It's important. It's historic."

Report: Pro-Abortion PAC to Spend over $10M to Boost Kamala Harris’s Image in 2024

Will Harris be returned to CA for the Feinstein slot?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2023 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  "We own this" meaning "It's not My fault!" Putz.
Posted by: magpie || 06/13/2023 9:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Depends on what you call progress. If your goal is to ruin California, you're well on your way.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2023 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Socialism has been marketing fake progress since the First Terror of the French Revolution, through the Holodomor, past the Great Leap Forward, by the War on Poverty and Killing Fields landing right into Newsom’s California under Tony Fauci’s Covid regime. The promise is always prosperity, but the delivery is always totalitarian control.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 12:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Hmmm, big urban encampments of vagrants of various flavors and lots of vacant commercial real estate - the obvious solution is to turn the empty malls and big box stores into indoor camps.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/13/2023 12:32 Comments || Top||

#7  It would be a daily stampede to get a spot in the food court.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 12:50 Comments || Top||

#8  It would be a daily stampede to get a spot in the food court.

Human stampedes, turf wars between gangs at varying scales. Being indoors, the environment would be dimly light and humid with dripping water everywhere. Pretty much like any street scene in "Blade Runner" which, by the way, was set in 2019 Los Angeles.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/13/2023 15:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Can't complete the prophecy if they don't first re-create the opening scene from Demolition Man.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/13/2023 16:21 Comments || Top||

#10  You get more of what you subsidize.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/13/2023 16:41 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Burisma Owner Allegedly Recorded Biden Bribe Convos As 'Insurance Policy' -- And FBI Covered Up: Grassley
Uh oh — someone’s gonna be in trouble!
[ZERO] According to the Washington Examiner, that foreign national is Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky.

Two of the recordings are allegedly between Joe Biden

"The 1023 produced to that House Committee redacted reference that the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them. Seventeen total recordings," Grassley said during a speech on the Senate floor.

"These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got into a tight spot. The 1023 also indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burisma employing Hunter Biden," he continued. "More than that, the FBI made Congress review a redacted unclassified document in a classified facility. That goes to show you the disrespect the FBI has for Congress."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2023 01:10 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Two of the recordings are allegedly between Joe Biden

"Well SOB."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2023 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Betcha they claim the recordings are faked.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2023 1:24 Comments || Top||

#3  If Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian interference", then why not a couple of recordings?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/13/2023 1:26 Comments || Top||

#4  NYP - Burisma boss in alleged Biden bribe scheme claims to have 15 taped conversations with Hunter, 2 with Joe: Grassley

WASHINGTON — The FBI source who reported President Biden’s alleged role in a bribery scheme said that a Ukrainian businessman claimed to keep as “insurance” 15 audio recordings of first son Hunter Biden and two of Joe Biden, a Republican senator revealed Monday.

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the staggering claim in a Senate floor speech after FBI Director Christopher Wray last week allowed House Oversight Committee members to see a redacted informant file about the claim that Hunter and then-Vice President Joe Biden received $5 million apiece to serve the interests of Burisma Holdings owner Mykola Zlochevsky.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2023 1:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Well maybe, just maybe, this corrupt shithole called Ukraine is playing the game they are good at.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/13/2023 1:54 Comments || Top||

#6  But, sorry, Chuck Grassley is just another do-nothing GOP'er. Next thing you know, he'll be on Hannity.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/13/2023 1:56 Comments || Top||

#7  They kept him on the payroll and did nothing with the info = coverup. Bill Barr will claim that he had no knowledge, but the guy was too well paid for him not to know.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 5:41 Comments || Top||

#8  A friend pointed out to me this morning "How can congress waste time on stuff like that when the have important things to do like look into the PGA/LIV merger?"

He was, of course, being sarcastic.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2023 8:33 Comments || Top||

#9  difficult to believe these recordings exist

the owner of the recordings could have sold them for $ millions and gotten amnesty and a nice life in a neutral country any time in the past few years but didn't
Posted by: lord garth || 06/13/2023 9:14 Comments || Top||

#10  I think the guy was on the FBI payroll and didn’t have to worry about getting shot. Either he got spooked, or figured that his tapes were worthless if Joe was removed before he cashed in.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 9:29 Comments || Top||

#11  /\ So there is an expiration date ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2023 9:30 Comments || Top||

#12  No Joe = no dough.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 9:38 Comments || Top||

#13  When can I hear these recordings on CBS?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2023 11:49 Comments || Top||

#14  So someone unknown is alleged to have stated that someone unknown (except to the trustworthy Washington Examiner) is alleged to have said he has tapes that "suggest" something and that Joe "may" have done something.

Bombshell? Btw if you are in a high position you usually know your shit when getting bribed. You'd certainly wouldn't say anything that could get you in trouble because you will always assume that your conversations might be taped.

When Biden was VP he wasn't a dim bulb (yet)

Posted by: European Conservative || 06/13/2023 13:12 Comments || Top||

#15  Joe was always the, or one of the, dumbest Senators. Recently we found out also the most corruptible. That's why Obama's team picked him for VP.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 06/13/2023 14:02 Comments || Top||

#16  FBI now refusing to answer question by Ted Cruz about the document recently released and questions about the tape recordings. I listened to on of Biden discussing the firing of the Burisma investigator. It's very damning.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/13/2023 19:26 Comments || Top||

#17  When I saw his statement about extorting a foreign government to stop an anti-corruption probe that threatened cash to Soros, I knew he was as dumb as he sounded as VP.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 20:46 Comments || Top||


'This is PREPOSTEROUS!' Outraged CNN commentator slams DoJ for five year investigation into Hunter Biden over tax, money laundering and gun allegations: Says probe should have taken five weeks
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Elie Honig,
    ...grew up in New Jersey, the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, and rose to #2 in the Justice Department’s organized crime unit until he left in 2012 to do similar work for the great state of New Jersey for the next five years — so he knows about mobs. Its a bit disingenuous that he claims to be shocked about Biden misbehaviour at this stage of the game...
    a former Manhattan assistant US attorney who now works as senior legal analyst for CNN, on Monday spoke about the Hunter Biden investigation

  • Honig said he was shocked that it had taken the Justice Department five years to investigate the 53-year-old son of the president

  • Hunter Biden is accused of lying about his drug use on a 2018 gun permit application, and of potential tax fraud and influence peddling
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yet you will still vote demoncrat
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/13/2023 0:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Hunter’s strategy for keeping the investigation open perpetually - commit more crimes on a daily basis.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 5:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Will Mr. Jack Rubenstein please report to the white courtesy phone. Mr. Rubinstein, Mr. Jack Rubinstein.

Some "investigations" are really never satisfactorily resolved.

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2023 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The pat answer of the FBI is usually "We can't discuss ongoing investigations." This will probably go into perpetuity.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/13/2023 16:31 Comments || Top||


Republican Senator says foreign national at center of Biden bribery allegations has recordings of 17 phone calls with Joe and Hunter that he has kept as 'insurance policy'
[Daily Mailm where America gets its news]
  • The FD-1023 form allegedly proves President Biden was involved in a $5 million criminal bribery scheme

  • The foreign national kept the recordings 'as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got into a tight spot'

  • The 1023 form also indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burisma employing Hunter Biden, says Sen. Chuck Grassley

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Republican senator"....

That's where I stopped reading.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/13/2023 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  It is Grassley. I usually go through the roll call of the bad Dem bills looking for crossover betrayals. Grassley is not on the frequent flyers list.
The issue does make me ask this question: If the Ukrainians are bribing the Bidens, why not Lindsey Graham?
He certainly acts like he is bribed.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 6:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Lindsay is the guy they don't have to bribe because he's already all-in in hopes of being bribed in the future.

Needless to say, he isn't bright enough to understand it doesn't work that way...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2023 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  He’s made more trips to Ukraine than Hunter.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 9:22 Comments || Top||

#5  If the Ukrainians are bribing the Bidens

Burisma was created by Putin puppet Ukr Pres Yanucovitch and his Moscow affiliated oligarchs to consolidate Ukr gas exploration and smother it. We know that Hunter Biden and Devon Archer received over $4 million from Burisma (and $3 million from the Moscow mayor's wife for another scheme). Who got the other ~1 million?

One thing that puzzled me was that by withholding the $1 billion aid until the Ukrainian prosecutor was fired and the investigation into Burisma and Hunter was squashed, Joe Biden was hurting Ukraine clean up corruption and helping Russian interests keep a grip on Ukraine. Then the 2022 invasion comes and Joe flips to the Ukrainian gov side both in rhetoric and aid. Did Joe not realize where the money ultimately came from? Did his staff not advise him of the subtleties of Ukrainian power politics?
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 06/13/2023 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Joe’s subtlety is at the peanut butter and jelly level and sinking.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 12:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Where is Judge Roy Bean when we need him?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/13/2023 16:33 Comments || Top||


FWIW: Deep Dive in the LightBringers' Curious Financial Habits By A Private Investigator
[AmericanThinker] Does Obama pay for anything with his own money?

A memoir is a history of one's past. Mine includes attempts to reveal who Barack Obama really is — or isn't. I recently published my memoir at the age of eighty-one years: The Rubbish Hauler's Wife versus Barack Obama.

I have been chasing Obama since 2009, when I uncovered, while working as a licensed private investigator, that he has used a phony CT Social Security number his entire adult life. I was undaunted when my lawsuit to keep him off the Ohio presidential ballot in 2012 was dismissed, even though it is illegal to use a false Social Security number.

My book contains other investigations, but I found more juicy information about Obama to include, especially about the alleged purchase of the Magnum P.I. property on Oahu.

I note specifically: Hawaii television station KHON2 announced on March 19, 2015 that Marty Nesbitt bought the Waimanalo property, made famous in the television show Magnum P.I. for $8.7 million and that he is the "sole investor."

Nesbitt said that Obama was not a party to the transaction. It was listed then under Waimanalo Paradise LLC and still is. There was no sale to Obama.

But the news media informed us incorrectly in August 2022 that Obama had purchased that estate. The original 9,000–sq. ft. house was razed and will be replaced by three houses. The repair of a hundred-year-old seawall on the property, slipped through with the help of a legal loophole, has Hawaiians outraged. They said it affected their beaches and the environment.

The papers for the property at 41-505 Kalanianaole Hwy. were signed by Judy Grimanis, Nesbitt's assistant, who previously worked for Penny Priztker. Priztker, whose brother is now Governor of Illinois, was a prominent Obama fundraiser and U.S. secretary of commerce under Obama.
Et cetera.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Took avoidance lessons from Epstein.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2023 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Sort of like his library.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 11:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Some people say Baraq is pulling Joe's strings but I always wondered who was pulling Baraq's strings.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2023 11:59 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ His parental lineage and associations were long monitored by both British and US intelligence. An ideal recruit, he was or is a Klingon 'made man.' Of course he would obviously never soil himself with a British connection. The perfect split ethnicity for societal division and change needed for our own Deep State.

Just my guess, after some extensive observation and study.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2023 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  As the saying goes, the Dems are as Thick as Thieves.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/13/2023 16:24 Comments || Top||

#6  I think part of maintaining the communist mindset is to live with the illusion that there is no such thing as that icky stuff called money.

Not saying that all good communists don't actually obsess about it more that the average person.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2023 16:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
"He's Always Been A .... ": Rogan Rips Biden Over Lifetime Of Lies, Shady Ties To Ukraine And China
[ZERO] Joe Rogan didn't hold back during a recent podcast, calling President Joe Biden a '****' for a career full of lies and international corruption. Rogan also condemned the establishment for holding former President Trump to a different standard.

Rogan was replying to guest Theo Von, who suggested that the president's handlers are to more blame for the sad, decrepit, national embarrassment Biden projects.

"It’s not cool to old people to do that to them," said Von, to which Rogan agreed - but argued that Biden is lucid enough to understand what's going on.

"He kind of does, and he’s kind of a cunt ... He's always been a cunt, though. You go back and listen to that guy lying about his education record and lying about his accomplishments and — like, he’s always been a problem."

"All the f------g stuff with his son and the ties to Ukraine and China and the money. The family, they got paid millions of dollars and everyone was trying to obscure it because, ’Well, better than Trump. Better than Trump,’" Rogan told comedian Theo Von, adding that he "can't take it anymore."

"If that guy was a Republican, they would be up his ass with a microscope."

"I mean, it’s wild stuff, man. They even got the FBI involved in telling Twitter to censor the information about the laptop. It’s crazy," Rogan continued, adding: "The media is overwhelmingly left-leaning, and if you have a left-leaning politician or a left-wing Democratic politician, and then you have this media that essentially works to support that person."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2023 01:20 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And in the end, many will vote for him again.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 6:47 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ many will be recorded as having voted for him
Posted by: Frank G || 06/13/2023 7:29 Comments || Top||

#3  81 million votes my ass...Kari Lake music video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TvCSwh4Tu0
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/13/2023 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Biden’s campaign will be ratio’d.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 12:24 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Will fractional voting results make a comeback ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2023 12:26 Comments || Top||

#6  A voting system pioneered on Whose Line Is It Anyway.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 12:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Ima thinking we've got a horse race between Hillary and Joe.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/13/2023 16:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Tucker just hosed down a bunch of fools with lighter fluid on Twitter. I never watched his show much. Now I wait all day to see who he flames.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/13/2023 19:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Tonight was well done
Posted by: Frank G || 06/13/2023 21:36 Comments || Top||



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