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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Now we know for sure that our judges and justices are abject cowards
[American Thinker] Several weeks ago, we worried that the judges and justices, state and federal, may not have the courage to take up the cases before them addressing the massive election fraud that took place November 3rd. Now we know that they are all cowards, the Constitution be damned.

Even the three SCOTUS justices Trump fought for were too terrified to do the right thing.

The intimidation tactics of the left — Antifa, BLM, and the campus fascists -- have worked. They have frightened each and every judge and justice, with the not surprising exceptions of Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, into disregarding Articles II and III of the Constitution.

The vote fraud that took place in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada was monstrous and long planned. Election laws were surreptitiously weakened by secret consent decrees (GA), mass mail-in ballots, Dominion vote machines programmed to flip votes, the creation of tens of thousands of fake ballots, illegal alien voting, illegal drop boxes, get-out-the-vote campaigns in Democrat-heavy districts paid for by the execrable Zuckerberg of Facebook infamy, the refusal to allow GOP observers, ballots trucked from one state to another.

The judges dismissed lawsuits in every court where one was filed by the Trump campaign or other plaintiffs, seemingly without even considering the details. The Supreme Court justices surely all know what took place; they can’t have missed all the hearings at which witnesses to fraud testified and signed affidavits as to the truth of what they observed. But the judges and justices were afraid. Now that the left seems to have successfully stolen the election, they will certainly do it again. They have the permission of the SCOTUS. Margot Cleveland does a masterful job explaining how cowardly the court’s dismissal was.

Every remotely sentient American by now knows that the Democrats cheated every conceivable way possible. Around 30% of Democrats reportedly do not believe the final result. Biden did little actual campaigning but knew his win was in the bag thanks to the combined forces of big tech (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter), the mainstream media that is the propaganda arm of the DNC, and all those Soros-installed state secretaries of state, AGs, and election officials willing to do the left’s and Soros’s bidding for a price.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 07:17 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mr. Trump's gift is ripping the mask off the oligarchy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I've never heard of a lawyer, after becoming a lawyer, picking up a weapon and fighting as an infantryman. Perhaps of the 1.3 million American lawyers there are one or two. If so, I stand corrected.
Posted by: b || 12/15/2020 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
—Aeschylus
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump has certainly exposed the fact that the political class coup was all but complete and Trumps efforts to clear it up were futile. They will make an example of Trump as to warn all others from fighting the Political elites. I suspect the supporters in office will get visits from the FBI and IRS until they are completely non effective.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  "I've never heard of a lawyer, after becoming a lawyer, picking up a weapon and fighting as an infantryman. Perhaps of the 1.3 million American lawyers there are one or two. If so, I stand corrected."
A notable exception would be Tom Cotton.
Posted by: Bradley || 12/15/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#6  One of the officers in my (IDF) reserve unit was a (very) criminal lawyer.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 11:16 Comments || Top||

#7  p.s. You might look up Kurt Schlichter.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Josh Mandel, two-term Ohio state treasurer. Got his JD, then spent eight years in the Marine Corps Reserves, not as a JAG but working his way up to sergeant with an intelligence specialty. Served two tours in Iraq.

His wife fell ill with something undefined in 2018 while he was running to replace Senator Sherrod Brown, so he stepped aeay from politics to take care of her. They were quietly divorced earlier this year. I hope by 2022 he will be ready to return to the fray — he would work happily with the growing contingent of conservative warrior-politicians, especially in Washington, DC.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2020 16:46 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ ME deployments were very rough on families. I tend to blame frequent calls home and email. I could hear the frustration while sitting in Morale and Welfare tents (MWR). Some of the conversations in the phone room were very sad. Suicides were another product of the calls and emails.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Any president taking office under these circumstances is illegitimate, just like the FBI. Call him "President Bastard".
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/15/2020 19:12 Comments || Top||

#11  Just make sure you say "DR. Mrs. Bastard"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/15/2020 20:17 Comments || Top||

#12  Which is why "they" went to such an extent to get rid of Trump (and "populism"): He is an outsider, not a part of the DC establishment or even the New York banker gang. "They" just weren't going to let it happen again.
Posted by: Clem || 12/15/2020 22:56 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Parramatta Wall down, Nader goes for the goal, scores - WINS
[NYP] It’s our gal Brooks!

New York model Brooks Nader has won the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2019 Model Search, the magazine announced Wednesday, and will appear in the 2020 issue as their handpicked "rookie."

The Post spotted the down-to-earth Louisiana native’s star quality years ago. She was the bathing beauty in a 2017 story on the lengths New Yorkers will go to for a decent bath: "I’ll do anything for a bath. Like, anything," she said with a laugh at the time.

The 22-year-old’s climb to the top started last year, when she attended an open casting call in Miami. She eventually beat out more than 10,000 other applicants and was even "handpicked as favorite model applicant by the iconic Christie Brinkley," a statement from the mag says.

Once the finalists were named, fans of Sports Illustrated voted for their favorite. With a combination of those votes, editors’ choice picks and an evaluation, Nader was crowned the winner. Look for her in next year’s big issue
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 06:17 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Could Secession Succeed?
It's Kurt.
[Townhall] There’s an undeniable pleasure in imagining the blue states cut off from America and forced to fend for themselves without normal Americans to feed them, fuel them, and defend them from the kind of dirtbags they kiss up to in order to show us knuckle-dragging Jesus-folk what for. But secession is a terrible idea, for them, but more importantly, for us. And while I don’t think America will unravel anytime soon — though those of us who read real history instead of silly oppression studies dreck understand that all great civilizations do eventually collapse — it remains possible that our country could fall apart in the short-term. Heaven knows the idiots in our useless Establishment seem to be doing everything possible to make that happen. That thought itself should be enough to inspire you to get fighting for the Constitution, using its provisions twice as hard despite the election theft last month, while hedging your bets with a 5.56mm rainy day fund.

Yes, the irony is clear that a guy like me who drew the fussy, femmy ire of the cruise-shilling Fredocon hacks and their cheesy blogs over his best-selling books about America splitting into red and blue nations is saying "Secession no!" Yet I was never a supporter of a national divorce, as tempting as it is to walk out on the libs for a younger, hotter, and less annoying partner. My five conservative action novels are based in a world where the country is ripped in two by the Left, and the latest, "Crisis," takes place as this schism is happening. There's action and humor, and Eric Swalwell shows up – no, not with some Chi-Com hooker, but definitely with the pungency for which he is renown – but it all looks far too much like real life to be comfortable. My books are a warning, not a how-to manual.
I've almost finished re-reading the first four, and will move on to Crisis next.
In my books, the Democrats destroy our national bonds through a combination of corruption, arrogance, incompetence, malice, and a transcendent lack of wisdom. Unfortunately, subject to some unlikely electoral deus ex krakena, it appears that we will be subjected to an asterisk-marked Democrat president and an accompanying administration that epitomizes corruption, arrogance, incompetence, malice, and a transcendent lack of wisdom. So, that's scary.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 13:22 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, I don't know where the first five letters came from. Inion? Really?

But do read the whole thing!
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm in.
Posted by: Iblis || 12/15/2020 13:56 Comments || Top||

#3  I.N.I.O.N.:
= In Nomine Iesu Omnibus aut Nihil


= [vulgate] fer Chrissake, balls out!

= BRING IT ON
Posted by: Snakes Henbane8664 || 12/15/2020 14:42 Comments || Top||

#4  It was Opinion, you silly people. ;-) Fixed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2020 17:08 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd rather the blue cities left the USA. I love the USA and they don't. Let them go independent. They'll have open borders and hefty welfare states and minimal militaries. This will help draw the problem children out of the remaining states and ensure the new city-states are no threat.

I'd also prefer Trump not create a new party, he currently owns the GOP and the NeverTrumpers should leave the party if they don't like it. I'm not going to let pseudo lefty hucksters claim the party of Abe Lincoln and Reagan.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/15/2020 17:20 Comments || Top||

#6  As always, Kurt Schlichter is worth reading in full.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2020 17:21 Comments || Top||

#7  The one factor that always seems to be left out of any talk about a split is "Will the world leave us alone while we have our family spat?". Hint: uh-uh.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/15/2020 18:54 Comments || Top||

#8  "Will the world leave us alone while we have our family spat?" When the cat's away the mice will most likely kill each other. They are already doing that anyway.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/15/2020 19:08 Comments || Top||

#9  My books are a warning, not a how-to manual. It wouldn't be the first time fiction became real.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/15/2020 19:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Will it work? Only if it is attempted.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/15/2020 20:18 Comments || Top||


When 2-year-olds are thrown off planes, you know America has changed
[WND] You may have seen the video of the family thrown off a United Airlines airplane because the 2-year-old daughter would not wear a mask. Though the family wore masks and the father promised to cover his daughter's face with a mask that he placed on her face, it made no difference. Though the child was completely asymptomatic, and though it is exceedingly rare for a child to transmit COVID-19 to an adult — that is why Sweden kept its schools open all spring and summer, with its students not wearing masks — the airline had its orders, and the flight attendant duly obeyed them.

As I watched the video, I wondered what the flight attendant thought. For example, did he think this was absurd, not to mention cruel? Did he know that 2-year-olds present virtually no health risk? Did he wonder why adults can sit without masks inches from other passengers while eating but a 2-year-old seated only next to family needed a mask?

Or did he think he was performing a noble service in kicking a family off an airplane because their 2-year-old wouldn't wear a mask?

I hope he thought he was enforcing an idiotic rule and had no choice. Then there is hope for him and for America. Otherwise, he's an irrational automaton, among the scariest people in any society.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 01:17 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When infants are killed in the womb or upon birth, you know America has changed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  US surpasses 300,000 COVID-19 deaths
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 2:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Grommet of Death rides again
Posted by: Omoluth Snomomble5367 || 12/15/2020 3:59 Comments || Top||

#4  In a population of about 360 million. It's not the Black Plague I was promised. That took about a quarter of Europe. It hasn't even been up there with the Spanish Flu. And the reporting? Up there with the vote count. Classifying those who died with the Covid along with those who died of Covid. It is a serious disease, people are dying. It's just turned into a 'Chicken Little' scenario for power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2020 5:44 Comments || Top||

#5  It's a plague of misleading stats.

Lockdown and masks don't work. They just make things worse by adding a false sense of security to those at risk and a false sense of panic and wealth destruction to those not at risk.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/15/2020 6:09 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 And if you scream it twice as louder, it'll be twice as true.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 6:24 Comments || Top||

#7  COVID-19

Season #1
Total Deaths up to 10-10-20 = 208,407

Peak was April 18th, 2020 = 17,095

Odds of getting infected were about 2.54%
Odds of dying IF infected were about 2.45%
Odds of dying in the USA Population of 342M were about 0.06093771929824561 of 1% base on most current data.

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Season #2
Deaths since 10-10-20 = 62,075

Season #2 Peak (SO FAR) 11-21-20 = 10,498
Which appears to be 7 to 14 days after the Elections and initial start of holiday shopping.
Followed by a decline the following weeks:
11/28/2020 8,893
12/5/2020 3,892
12/12/2020 515

Comparing the C-19 Infection cycle to the Flu

CDC FLU "TYPE" Virus Seasons typically (CDC-CONUS)
"The exact timing and duration of flu seasons can vary, but influenza activity often begins to increase in October. Most of the time flu activity peaks between December and February, although activity can last as late as May."

SOURCE OF EXTRAPOLATED DATA:

CDC C-19 DEATH DATA

CDC FLU SITE

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/15/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Suggestion:
Avoid using a Panic inducing CDC Running Total.

Looking at the CDC weekly figures yourself.

You should will see the C-19's initial arrival and spread, a typical growing infection cycle, then a decline with bumps here and there based on reporting issues, Social behavior,events and weather patterns.

As we see the CONUS 2020-2021 Cold season arrive and the C-19 being a virus loving colder weather. We will see an increase and another peak in its cycle, before its decline.

IF it follows a typical FLU/VIRUS Seasonal Pattern?
We could see Peak Death numbers in January 2021.

NOTE:
My hope is the VAX does not have serious side effects, as it is now being induced into a real world environment with 5+ Billion variables.
The next Generation will tell.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/15/2020 7:22 Comments || Top||

#9  And Bill Gates is pushing to keep the same ineffective measures, mask & lockdown, for the next year and beyond.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/15/2020 7:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Masks not very effective study

Infectionwith SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%).
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 8:41 Comments || Top||

#11  From the original WND article: So, while the CDC is adamant children under the age of 2 must NOT wear a face mask, a child who just turned 2 constitutes a mortal danger to others on the plane – and must be ejected from the plane if she just won't cover her face.

Welcome to America 2020.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 8:43 Comments || Top||

#12  This story made my wife furious. She's declared United is dead to her and we will never fly United again.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/15/2020 10:43 Comments || Top||

#13  g(r)omgoru, can you explain why Japan and South Korea are having spikes despite both earning gold medals for their lockdowns?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/15/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||

#14  #13 You might want to look this up - before talking. Also look Japan & S. Korea stats: cases/million (1440 & 21) & deaths/million (865 & 12). The corresponding numbers for USA are 51,094 cases/million & 929 deaths/million (almost 1/1000).

p.s. If you look at stats of covid deaths by occupation, you might be surprised.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 11:09 Comments || Top||

#15  ^Domo arigato, TW.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||

#16  Jy is welkom beslis.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#17  ^Gomenasai.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 11:30 Comments || Top||

#18  2018 legal abortions were at 630,000. That's about the average every year. And we worry about COVID....
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2020 12:13 Comments || Top||

#19  I don't think one can catch an abortion.
Posted by: Clem || 12/15/2020 12:18 Comments || Top||

#20  The unborn do not seem to get a vote.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/15/2020 12:32 Comments || Top||

#21  ^ Perhaps they're Republican
Posted by: Frank G || 12/15/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#22  Grom, link goes to subscribe to read landing page. Can you give an Executive Summary.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/15/2020 12:56 Comments || Top||

#23  #22 Neither Japan nor S. Korea had mandated lockdowns. They did have masks & tracing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||


Economy
Wealth taxes are not the cure for rising debt
[Washington Examiner] Who is going to pay for all this? Governments across the West are up to their eyeballs in debt, and the economic crisis shows no sign of easing. Even when vaccination is widespread, the fiscal consequences of the lockdowns will last. Fewer people are working, and more people are claiming benefits, which means that governments are receiving less revenue while making more payments.

Where will the money come from? Left-wing politicians around the world are coalescing behind a single solution: a wealth tax. There is plenty of dough, they say, but it is stashed away in mansions and gold bars and racehorses and Picassos. A tax on assets, a one-off, to balance the books, would solve the problem without hurting ordinary people.

Lots of these politicians were, of course, calling for wealth taxes long before the lockdowns. Sen. Bernie Sanders liked to claim that seizing a proportion of the assets of the rich would "raise an estimated $4.35 trillion." Sen. Elizabeth Warren used to tell us that a 2% wealth tax would pay for universal child care, better schools, and free college tuition. Like everyone else, they have seized on the coronavirus as a vindication of whatever it was they happened to be banging on about before.

Still, the epidemic has given them a new impetus. Common threats, as this column keeps gloomily pointing out, make voters more collectivist, more authoritarian, more demanding of state intervention. Socialists around the world, including Thomas Piketty, are very excited about a report by a group of British academics, grandly titled the Wealth Tax Commission, which suggests that a 1% levy on assets above 500,000 pounds, or $665,000, would generate $346 billion. Argentina has become the first country to put the idea into practice, expropriating 3.5% of any assets above 200 million pesos, or $2.5 million.

Argentina’s Peronists, whose inability to learn from their mistakes verges on the heroic, say that the revenue will fund medical supplies, business relief, and social projects. In reality, though, there won’t be any revenue.

Since 1990, a dozen European countries have scrapped their wealth taxes on the grounds that the net impact was negative. The basic problem is that the rich don’t sit around waiting to be taxed. They find ways to shift their assets, or themselves, if necessary, to friendlier tax jurisdictions, leaving the rest of us to pick up their share of the tab. In the meantime, saving and investing are disincentivized, bad news at any time but calamitous when we are trying to recover from an epochal recession. As the Manhattan Institute puts it, "Of all the possible types of ways to collect revenue, wealth taxes are the least desirable."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/15/2020 06:35 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Once again, NYC is showing flyover country the way forward.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/15/2020 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Wealth taxes are the mechanism politicians use to work the graft by rising taxes but putting unending loopholes paid for by the rich to politicians into writing them into the laws. And you wonder why all the corruption abounds?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3  our left scream wealth taxes, its all a ruse to get the left vote. After all they know the left has a large base of very wealthy that they do not want to alienate. Then one day some idiot in NY decided to do what he promised. The outcome was not as planned, a mass exodus of the state and city where the tax originated. Who would have thunk… Now we have national leaders spouting the same. Watch the dollars leave the country, watch the wealth leave the country, then watch the left go after the middle class even stronger. This is how it works, always has, always will.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2020 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Forget your idiotic wealth tax fantasies and just enforce the fucking antitrust laws, you morons.
Posted by: Chating Splat5550 || 12/15/2020 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5  A few years ago someone did a mental exercise that showed that seizing the wealth of the richest people in the country could, indeed, fund the federal government. For ONE year. After that ...
The problem with the concept of a massive wealth tax is that these people do not keep their wealth in a swimming pool of cash, like Scrooge McDuck did. Much of their wealth is in stocks, bonds, real estate, and other non liquid assets. To seize them the government would have to take all of their stock and turn them into cash. Of course, if they seized all of Jeff Bezos's Amazon stock, they would have to sell it. Which would crash the market for Amazon stock ...
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/15/2020 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  This would end up just like the "Powerball will fund our schools" lie. The money that went to the schools from the lottery only offset the cuts at an equal value. The schools saw no real gain, just a different funding source. If you give congress $4 trillion in cash, you can bet your life they will spend it all and not fix any deficit...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2020 12:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Funny how gum'ments of all levels never look at their spending. Same old story...tax the "rich".

One reason why some say China will be the world's economic power within 2-3 decades. This country is committing suicide--economically, politically, and socially.
Posted by: Clem || 12/15/2020 12:24 Comments || Top||

#8  If I remember correctly , they put a tax on yachts because only the wealthy could afford them. They put the people who built the yachts out of work and lost the benefits of their payroll taxes, and the wealthy who wanted yachts bought their yachts at overseas tax havens and thus government critters never collected the tax on the yachts.
Posted by: Phinetch Wherese4624 || 12/15/2020 18:41 Comments || Top||

#9  putting unending loopholes paid for by the rich to politicians into writing them into the laws That is a good operating definition of "rent-seeking" It has been going on since governments were instituted by men. Also look up the "Iron Law of Bureaucracy".
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/15/2020 19:34 Comments || Top||

#10  The US National Debt long ago escaped the "bonds of earth". It can never be repaid, unless a solid gold meteorite slams down on a joint session of Congress and takes out the entire District of Columbia.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/15/2020 19:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The view from the other side: Donald Trump's defeat is good. Why does it feel so bad?
[MSN] Today should be a celebratory day. The Electoral College will gather in state legislatures across the country and cast its votes, and Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
will officially be designated the next president of the United States. The system, such as it is, is still working despite dozens of junk lawsuits, multiple attempts to undermine the will of the voters, and endless falsehoods from the loser of the presidential election. We're not an authoritarian country, yet.

But it doesn't feel great, does it?
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because guilt always feels bad.
(unless you're psychotic)
Posted by: Clem Thuger4643 || 12/15/2020 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Clem || 12/15/2020 0:37 Comments || Top||

#3  It feels so bad because you know inside that you sold your freedom for a few pieces of silver - only its not exactly silver...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/15/2020 1:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Same reason only a certain type of person gets a kick out of owning a counterfeit Rolex or knockoff Gucci handbag, chapo...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/15/2020 4:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Cheating always comes with remorse. To know your part of the ending of the greatest nation on earth, just to satisfy a temper tantrum, is not good for the soul...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Right, we just need to surrender to the lies and cynicism of Dems/media/Soros and their cronies.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#7  It feels bad because they know they cheated but also because CNN has now admitted the virus came from China (a year late) and the existence of the Hunter Biden laptop is now being reported after a year of it being ignored or played off as a dirty trick lie. Many on the left now know they've been lied to on a few big issues and are starting to realize their world might be built on a foundation of such lies.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/15/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh how the left cheered when they killed the senate filibuster on judicial nominees and then griped when the results of that decision stung.

Maybe the remorse today is not about the cheating required to throw Trump out of office but the inevitable results of sky high deficits, $5 a gallon gas, high unemployment... and the notion of a child psychologist showing up when they dial 911 for a home invasion.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/15/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#9  "Ok, we beat Trump. Now wat do we do about covid, and China, and economy?"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||

#10  I think this reporter doesn't have what it takes to be a part of the main stream media.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/15/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||

#11  To believe the numbers is to believe the old white man is a better campaigner than Obama and a better candidate than Hillary!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/15/2020 11:46 Comments || Top||

#12  This clownshow is starting to resemble the verdict in the OH Simpson trial. "Glove don't fit!"

Doesn't matter how much evidence there is. The original sin must be purged, even if it means telling the nation that the sun revolves around the earth.
Posted by: Clem Elmetle3292 || 12/15/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#13  "Ok, we beat Trump. Now wat do we do about covid, and China, and economy?"

Whatever Xi Jinping says.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/15/2020 12:52 Comments || Top||

#14  It'll be interesting to see how Biden's economy does. I'm sure he'll blame Trumps reaction to Covid for economic flailings as his policies kill that upwards trajectory.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/15/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#15  Yeah, but what's Kamala gonna do?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/15/2020 13:05 Comments || Top||

#16  Whatever Xi Jinping says.
Well, IMO, that's actually better than whatever Joe & Kamala might come up with.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||


Republican attorneys general set their sights on checking Joe Biden and Kamala Harris over next four years
[WashingtonExaminer] A little-celebrated victory was overlooked by the press in last month’s election results when Republicans held onto their 26-member majority in state attorneys general offices across the country.

"We kept all five incumbent seats, despite the fact that, in October, Democrats were claiming they were going to take up at least three seats," said Adam Piper, the executive director of the Republican Attorneys General Association in an interview with the Washington Examiner.

A state attorney general is that state’s top lawyer. Their responsibilities are broad, from investigating criminal operations, protecting seniors from scams, monitoring larger mergers that may overstep anti-trust laws, as well as investigating public corruption, and defending a state if it is sued.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As Piper sees it, Republican attorneys general are the one thing that will defend the country during the Biden-Harris administration.

Well... not exactly the only thing.
You do remember the 2nd Amendment, don't you? Capisce?
Posted by: Gleaper Protector of the Ostrogoths4192 || 12/15/2020 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  So what! They will do nothing, like they did nothing over Hillary or Bill for that matter. They revel in their party, so what. An ass is still an ass, even in an elephants costume. Barr was a great example of someone that had it all, and pissed it away. Don't rock the boat, don't move or change a thing, just sit still and watch this great American ship sink.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2020 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  The funny thing is the reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop all of a sudden seems a way to get Biden to step down so Harris can step up. Quicker than expected but predicted none-the-less.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/15/2020 11:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Wouldn't Kamala prefer Joe to figurhead for two years - that's way she gets + 8?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#5  If the Dems get eight (or more) years in the White House, then I'll go to Spain like that bovine Amy Shumer. Oh, wait, she didn't go. That's right.
Posted by: Clem || 12/15/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Grom, Kamala won't survive an election and she knows it. She had to quit the Dem primaries after only a few days she was so unpopular with the left. They couldn't steal enough votes to get her elected in 2024.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/15/2020 13:01 Comments || Top||

#7  ^We knew Biden couldn't win.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2020 13:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Biden is far more popular than Kamala.
But good point.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/15/2020 17:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Great work is being done behind the signs to create an animatronic version of Joe Bastard. Maybe it's already been done.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/15/2020 19:31 Comments || Top||



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