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-War on Police-
Joe Biden Blames Law Enforcement for Fueling 'Distrust' in Police Week Statement Honoring the Fallen
[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...
blamed law enforcement for fueling "distrust" in minority communities in his proclamation declaring Peace Officers Memorial Day and "Police Week."

Peace Officers Memorial Day, May 15, honors all of the fallen law enforcement officers, as well as Police Week to remember all of the sacrifices from officials and their families across the country.

The president’s statement released Saturday expressed "gratitude for the selfless public servants who wear the badge," but included a lengthy paragraph raising concerns about the "distrust" that police had created.

Posted by: Fred || 05/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shysters hate cops.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 05/11/2021 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, but they're your law enforcement in multi-generational Donk controlled urban bastions. What's up with that? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/11/2021 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  What a flaming asshole. Insulting police at a ceremony designed to honor them
Posted by: Criger Thrusoque3393 || 05/11/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#4  His pandering is shameless.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/11/2021 11:57 Comments || Top||


Britain
Queen to Announce Voter ID Requirements in UK to Tackle Election Fraud
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2021 00:07 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Queen announces voter ID requirements? Oh, that it were that easy in the U.S.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/11/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||


#3  Don't want those refugees from Syria voting in your elections.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/11/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  'Asians', Abu.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/11/2021 14:08 Comments || Top||


Three More Years: Sadiq Khan Reelected as London Mayor, but Won by Smaller Majority
[Breitbart] London will have leftist Mayor Sadiq Khan in power for at least three more years after his victory was announced on Saturday evening, besting Conservative Party challenger Shaun Bailey.

Despite months of polling predicting a landslide victory for Labour Party’s Sadiq Khan in the London mayoral election, Mr Khan only edged out the relatively unknown London Assembly Member by a margin of 40 per cent to 35.3 per cent in the first round of London’s preferential voting system.

Although Khan failed to win an outright majority in the first round, he ultimately prevailed in the second round when second preference votes were counted. The Labour politician won 1,206,034 votes (55.2 per cent) to Bailey’s 977,601 votes, or 44.8 per cent, a majority of 208,533 votes.

While a comfortable majority, it was less than Khan’s 2016 results — which the BBC described on Sunday as the “record-setting vote total” of 1,310,143, which translated into 56.8 per cent and a 315,529-vote majority over his main rival, Conservative Zac Goldsmith.

The closer margin of the race further demonstrated the political problems facing the left-wing Labour Party, which saw a string of defeats throughout the country in this week’s elections, including another so-called ‘Red Wall’ seat of Hartlepool swinging to Boris Johnson’s Tory Party in a parliamentary by-election.

Shaun Bailey, for his part, took the opportunity of his concession speech to highlight the failures of Sadiq Khan’s tenure, in particular the spiralling problem of knife crime in the capital.

Bailey, who is of British Jamaican heritage, said to the Pakistani heritage Khan: “I hope you take this opportunity to focus on the fact that people who look like me are four times as likely to be murdered than people who look like you.”

During Khan’s time in office, crime has massively increased in Britain’s largest city, with over 100 homicides recorded in London for six years running. Since taking power, knife crime rose by over 50 per cent until the year leading up to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, according to data held by the House of Commons library.

During his first term, Mr Khan gave added focus to woke policing strategies, establishing the Online Hate Crime Hub to police speech on the internet in 2016. In 2019, it was reported that the £1.7 million unit, nicknamed the “Twitter Squad”, had investigated 1,612 cases during a two year period, yet merely secured six convictions.

Khan has also engaged in the war on British heritage. In the wake of the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain following the death of George Floyd in the United States, Khan established a Red Guard-style ‘Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm’ to target historical monuments and statues in London for review.

Khan rose to international attention during his term after engaging in a very public diplomatic spat with then-President of the United States Donald Trump.

Mr Trump branded the leftist mayor a “stone-cold loser” for his failure to tackle violent crime and terrorism in Britain’s largest city after Khan said in 2017 that the United Kingdom should cancel the American president’s state visit.

Khan had accused President Trump of using “xenophobia, racism, and ‘otherness’ as an electoral tactic” and later declared that Trump only cared about “White America”, saying that Trump’s election slogan of America First really meant “White America First”.

Despite Khan’s protests, Trump came to the UK twice: a working visit in July 2018 and a state visit in June 2019. During the state visit, Trump had claimed: “In London, you have stabbings all over. I read an article where everybody is being stabbed. They said your hospital is a sea of blood, all over the floors.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Pakis jokingly [or not?] include London in their list of important Pakistani cities in their correspondence.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/11/2021 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope the people who voted for this idiot get it good and hard.
Posted by: Pliny Shosh7916 || 05/11/2021 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  The umma has spoken.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/11/2021 7:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Khan made a lot of promises to improve public safety, hire more police, build more housing, etc.

why anyone believed him is a mystery

Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/11/2021 7:54 Comments || Top||


#6  Long don? Peculiar auto-correct substitution.
Posted by: Omaiter Sinatra6457 || 05/11/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Must be a lot of Muslims voting or the elections are rigged as here or both.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/11/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#8  His very own Dominion?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/11/2021 13:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Memos hint Zuckerberg to continue big spending on Georgia election workers, infrastructure
[Just The News] Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's multimillion dollar investment in the 2020 presidential election process may extend into this year or beyond, at least if Fulton County is any measure.

Georgia's largest county, which encompasses the blue-leaning city of Atlanta, received more than $6.3 million in private grants from the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to conduct elections during the 2020 pandemic, but recently reported it did not use all the money last year.

Now it would like to spend $858,667 in leftover proceeds in the future, according to county election officials' memos obtained by Just the News under the state's Freedom of Information Act.

CTCL, which got hundreds of millions from Zuckerberg and his wife to spend during the 2020 election, also hinted of bigger plans for the future in its after-action questionnaire for Fulton County.

"If your annual budget for elections permanently doubled, what would you be able to accomplish that you can't accomplish now?" the questionnaire asked.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2021 06:53 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did someone think what happened in Georgia was a 'one off'? These people must STAY bought !
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2021 6:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Sedition
Posted by: Hupomolet Elmomomble9704 || 05/11/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||


#4  Big returns on these dollars.
Posted by: Angstrom || 05/11/2021 16:31 Comments || Top||


Thank Tim Scott for answering the question 'Is America racist?'
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Thanks in part to Sen. Tim Scott, it looks like we have hit the peak of the "America is a systemically racist country" craze.

About 10 days ago, the South Carolina Republican, in response to President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.......
’s address to Congress, as well as the general tone and tenor of the times, made it clear that he did not believe that America is a racist country and that the notion of institutional or systemic racism is pretty much nonsense. He said plainly: "America is not a racist country."
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Posted by: Fred || 05/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


A hard-hitting ad about education hits leftists right in the ego
[AMERICANTHINKER] One of the constants about leftists is the sneering disdain they have for Southerners — and the deeper south one goes, the greater the leftists' disdain. As I know well, for many years, if you challenged anything about public education in a Northern state, things such as the constant lowering of standards or the abandonment of grammar — you would be met with the fact that more kids from blue states went to college than did kids from red states. Invariably, Mississippi or Alabama would be thrown out as Exhibit A to prove the pathetic weakness of education in those deep red states.

It was useless to point out that, of late, kids going to college aren't getting educated any more than they were in K—12. Instead, they're also getting indoctrinated. Where they once studied the greatest thinkers and writers of ancient and modern culture, they now do ridiculous things such as looking at pre-colonial America through the filter of sexuality and gender. Yes, that was a real assignment one of my children got at a prestigious little liberal arts college. Another of my children was told to think about biblical-era Jerusalem in terms of social justice.

Instead of expanding young minds, today's education is as reductionist as anything taught in a Chinese school during the Cultural Revolution. It's not about imparting knowledge; it's about imposing leftist shibboleths.

None of these arguments matters to leftists. They've got their mantra: the redder the state, the more stupid the people and, of course, the worse the schools in these states.

That's why an ad that appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune is so brilliant. Minneapolis is one of America's most woke, most blue, most arrogant cities — except that, as the ad states, its schools perform worse than schools in...wait for it...Mississippi.
Posted by: Fred || 05/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:



Philadelphia's Fall: A Microcosm of Democrat Devastation
[THEBLUESTATECONSERVATIVE] Large American cities, the vast majority of which are run entirely by Democrats, are deteriorating before our eyes; and the phenomenon is not due to the COVID pandemic. New York City is in rapid decay, reverting to its pre-Rudolph Giuliani condition as Mayor Bill DeBlasio is more concerned about wokeness and virtue-signaling than he is about effectively running the city’s government. In the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
and Los Angeles, homelessness is out of control, their treasuries are effectively broke, and residents have been fleeing in record numbers. And in Portland, Mayor Ted Wheeler
...Poindextrous lefty Dem mayor of Portland, Oregon. Allowed a year and a half of Antifa/BLM riots to destroy downtown sections of his city while playing catch and release with the perpetrators and hamstringing his police. He got reelected in the course of all that because the alternative was worse...
has stood by as riots have been ravaging the city for almost a year now, with empty hotels across the city as tourists stay away in droves.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Look at the other Blue cities and States as well to really get an idea of the devastation.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/11/2021 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  True, but they have 125% voter turnout.
Posted by: Omaiter Sinatra6457 || 05/11/2021 10:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember, this is the city whose elections are so fraudulent that a Philadelphia Elections Judge was convicted and sent to prison for stuffing ballots in exchange for cash
Posted by: Albemarle Gonque7248 || 05/11/2021 12:33 Comments || Top||


Now a *2nd* Forensic Audit is Being Requested, As Fate of Election Lawsuit in Michigan Hangs in Balance
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] As Arizona’s forensic audit runs into massive resistance in the courts and from the Department of Justice, another forensic audit is being requested as a lawsuit hangs in the balance in the State of Michigan. The fate of the one of the last election lawsuits in the country is set to be decided in court on Monday morning.

"A Monday hearing will determine the fate of one of the last active lawsuits challenging the validity of the 2020 election," the Traverse Eagle local publication reported. "A 13th Circuit Court judge is scheduled to hear arguments on a defense request to dismiss an Antrim County election-related lawsuit —a move opposed by the plaintiff who, court records show, is instead seeking to expand the case."

"The case in Antrim County is among the few yet to be adjudicated, records show," the report continued.

A joint motion requesting Judge Kevin Elsenheimer dismiss the lawsuit has been filed by Assistant Michigan Attorney General Erik Grill , who represents intervener Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and attorney Haider Kazim, who is representing defendant Antrim County.

The joint motion seeks to have the lawsuit dismissed for lack of standing. The judge has already allowed the complainant, Bailey and his attorney, Matthew DePerno, to have a third party conduct a forensic examination of the county’s Dominion Voting Systems equipment. That audit was conducted earlier by Allied Security Operations Group, a Dallas-based firm that concluded the voting machine equipment was fraught with errors.

"The Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results," the audit report stated. "The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud. Based on our study, we conclude that The Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified..."

Antrim County had been the site of a detected error that flipped votes from Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
to Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
. The error was detected and corrected before the 2020 election results could be certified.

"Bailey continues to argue the county violated his constitutional rights after an error by County Clerk Sheryl Guy caused about 2,000 votes cast for then-President Donald Trump, to be initially — and mistakenly — tallied for then-challenger Joe Biden," the Traverse Eagle reported.

"Guy, a Republican, corrected her office’s vote tally errors prior to the state’s certification of the county’s November election results, and records show Trump won Antrim County by a large margin, receiving 9,748 votes to Biden’s 5,960 votes," the report continued.

Matthew DePerno has also requested election data from other counties, which the judge rejected as a "fishing expedition." DePerno filed another motion on May 4 seeking to add Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy, state Bureau of Elections Director Jonathan Brater, and Election Source, a Dominion subcontractor, to the lawsuit as defendants, the report continued.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño...
a forensic audit of Antrim County has now been proposed and will be under discussion at a meeting in June.

"In the more than seven hour meeting, commissioners also discussed whether they have the authority to conduct their own audit, forensic accounting or hand recount of the county’s 2020 election results," the Traverse Eagle noted. "They don’t — state law says only the Secretary of State can conduct and audit elections in Michigan."
Posted by: Fred || 05/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

If the Voting machine cannot be secured to prevent tampering by ANY person(s), political party, or hostile country prior to or during the voting and tabulation process. Then it simply must be rejected.

I would strongly support an Open Source (public) code requirement. Given the ability to implant hidden processing routines in IC's with MILLIONS of circuits and app's with 1,000's ++ lines of code.

* 100% of any voting system MUST be built and programmed only by USA owned companies, on US Soil.

* make it a Federal Crime with a mandatory 30 year prison sentence for anyone.... Poll worker, Tech, politician to CEO involved in manipulating the voting process.

KISS end to end.

Because, clearly our USA 1960's voting process needs to be adapted to the 21st century technology and must be 100% properly secured and trusted by the citizenry above all else.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/11/2021 6:46 Comments || Top||


#3  unforetunately the voting machines aren't the only problem, maybe not even the most important problem

this is especially so in States where witnesses sign the mail in ballot envelop

the problem is illegal coaching, for example, in GA the witnesses, perhaps not realizing the problem, will coach the voter on how to vote while the ballot is open and visible to the coaches. This is illegal but to the coaches, it seems that they are just 'helping'.

You can't discover this in an audit. The only way to reduce this, you won't be able to eliminate it, is to require an ID, maybe two IDs but eliminate the witness signature.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/11/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Here we go again with lack of standing. Any voter whose vote might have been effectively canceled by fraud has standing in a case like this. Anybody who argues otherwise is hiding something and I think we all have a good idea what.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/11/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't care where the paper ballots or pencils originate as long as they have a clear chain of custody through the process.

Electronics are for the birds when it comes to elections.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/11/2021 14:37 Comments || Top||



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