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First debate shambles, Chris Wallace loses bigly
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
DNI declassifies document alleging Russian collusion hoax was Hillary Clinton's idea, Obama was briefed
[The Post Millennial] A letter has just emerged showing that the "Russia hoax," the accusations that Donald Trump was colluding with Russia to steal the election, was entirely the brainchild of Hillary Clinton, and that she briefed the Obama-Biden White House on her plans.

It was in 2016 that Clinton approved of a plan to create a scandal alleging that then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was involved with Vladimir Putin in "hacking the Democratic National Committee."

The letter, addressed to Senator Lindsey Graham, and signed by John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence for the Trump administration, is in reference to Graham's request for Intelligence Community (IC) information on the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation. Ratcliffe declassified the following information:

"In late July 2o16, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by typing him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee. The IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extend to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.

"According to handwritten noted, former Central Intelligence Agency Director Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the 'alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Amazing how much criminality is known by the inner circles but not revealed to the public.

Trump's intel chief declassifies 2016 claim that Russian spies 'knew Hillary Clinton was trying to stir up a scandal against Donald by linking him to DNC hack' despite Senate calling it 'disinformation'
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/30/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||

#3  What's all the fuss now? This has been available in open sources for nearly four years. I guess it has been ignored by the MSM/Dems in its continuous efforts to "Get Trump."
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/30/2020 17:25 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
'The Boys' Star Jack Quaid Says 'F**k Donald Trump'
[BREITBART] I love logical, intellectual argument.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You're not his type.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/30/2020 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  About as logical as most celebrity leftists.
Posted by: gorb || 09/30/2020 5:55 Comments || Top||

#3  The Donald gets all the sex he wants, but thank-you for the offer.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/30/2020 6:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Goose stepping to the party line, I see.

An actor? Who cares?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/30/2020 7:12 Comments || Top||

#5  I have said this likely a 1000's times in the last few years.

Any time one of these Celebrities start talking I JUST REMIND MYSELF, these are people that are paid to PRETEND or ACT out roles for the entertainment of others. They don't even know who they are inside.

BASIC RULES for Celebrities that go Political are:
1. Trying to rekindle faded Fan/industry interest.
2. Free media attention for promoting a new business venue.
3. Trying to get attention for a new gig or Role.
4. Trying to gain access to a "click".
5. Had a really bad last movie, or a TV show about to be renewed or canceled.
6. Broke or going broke and lase out for emotional support and deflection.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/30/2020 7:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Almost forgot
They are so simple minded. That it never occurred to them before making any abrasive Political Remarks, that they are likely flushing 30% to 50+% of their viewers, customers or fan base.


BTW: with C-19 having shutdown Movie and TV filming of 6+ months there are going to be a lot of Starving / Broke Actors in the 2020-21 Season.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/30/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||

#7  guy who plays dress up for a living says what?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 09/30/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

#8  No f'in clue who Jack Quaid is. And I think I'll keep it that way.
Posted by: Clem || 09/30/2020 8:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Who?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/30/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#10  And why should I care about what this professional liar says?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/30/2020 9:37 Comments || Top||

#11  By this time next year he'll be unemployed when his current gig ends because no restaurants will be around for him to wait tables at.
Posted by: Lumpy Slomoting3095 || 09/30/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||

#12  The Boys...ah. The Dollar Tree comic book show.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/30/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#13  A friend really liked that show, it was on my list of shows to catch up on when I have time. Not anymore.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/30/2020 10:43 Comments || Top||

#14  If he doesn't say this, the pictures are going to be released.

Always assume that there is kompromat on all these people.
Posted by: charger || 09/30/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||

#15  Wikipedia: JackHenry Quaid is an American actor. The son of actor Dennis Quaid and actress Meg Ryan, he made his acting debut with a minor role in the dystopian film The Hunger Games. Quaid went on to play the leading role of vigilante Hughie Campbell in the Prime Video superhero series The Boys (on Amazon - ed).

To paraphrase Family Guy, "Shut up Meg Jr.!"
Posted by: Uloter Ebbomolet9368 || 09/30/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#16  Jack, you are not very original. You are merely echoing what nearly everyone on the left has said every day since 2016.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/30/2020 17:16 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Pres. Trump spars with Chris Wallace in presidential debate: 'I guess I'm debating you, not him'
[Washington Examiner] President Trump sparred with debate moderator Chris Wallace early in Tuesday’s presidential debate on the topic of healthcare.

"First of all, I guess I’m debating you, not him," Trump told Wallace in response to a question about healthcare in which the Fox News anchor referred to Trump’s recent executive order on healthcare as "largely symbolic." "That’s OK. I’m not surprised."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/30/2020 07:36 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wallace was very partisan and slanted against Trump. Why did Fox use a rabid NeverTrumper for the "moderator"?
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 09/30/2020 12:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Wallichinski's stock is way down today. Look for him to be increasingly strident and bitter going forward.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/30/2020 12:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Best I've heard it put,

"All three participants played to their base."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/30/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 - because Shep "Drama Queen" Smith went to CNBC?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/30/2020 17:13 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Actually Trump still has a strong base. This was a surgical strike upon Biden's left supporters. Most people have made their minds up. This dampens enthusiasm for the Biden base. Trump supporters are going to vote in a massive red wave. Biden lost his temper("shut up"). Trump rolled on.
Posted by: Dale || 09/30/2020 17:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh, Biden was solid third place, no doubt about that.

Whatever he was, he wasn't a fighter last night, and Wallace's performance only amplified that.

He looked hesitant, he squished on the GND, he squished on Antifa, and his monologues came off as recited and void of idea or passion - again Wallace's performance amplifying that.

Prepared zingers were fumbled and/or ill timed. Prepared monologues came out jumbled and confusing.

And the pasty look didn't help at all.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/30/2020 18:19 Comments || Top||

#7  *contacts in my book who normally dog pile on Trump are taking a much more neutral, "Well that was an embarrassing muddle." when normally it would be more like, "That Drumph just can't keep shut for even a minute!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/30/2020 18:48 Comments || Top||


Chaos reigns in first Trump-Biden debate
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/30/2020 03:29 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gangsta rap versus mumble rap. Trump has often been accused of having delusions of grandeur. Biden, by contrast, clearly has delusions of mediocrity.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 09/30/2020 4:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump knew Biden and the moderator were controlling leftists so there was no way he was going to follow the rules or allow them to control the debate. Biden lied about his son all night.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 09/30/2020 4:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Dinesh "Like a disadvantaged fighter who is given a “handicap” to make it fair, Biden tonight had a handicap, and his name was Chris Wallace". Biden just repeated old media talking points. What was it 47 years of nothing.
Posted by: Dale || 09/30/2020 4:13 Comments || Top||

#4  What made the debate a disaster is simple. Wallace kept wanting 1) Biden to spew lies without Trump interrupting him and then 2) completely change the topic without allowing Trump to refute what Biden just said about him.

Trump wasn't about to play along with that crap no matter how many times Wallace kept scolding Trump.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 09/30/2020 4:22 Comments || Top||

#5  The interesting bit is the Hispanic Channel Telemundo showed a poll of Trump winning the debate with Hispanic viewers of %66 to %34 the strongest polling either way of any group.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/30/2020 6:23 Comments || Top||

#6  I loved the look on Biden's face after Trump mentioned LTG Flynn and the shenanigans surrounding it.
Posted by: Clem || 09/30/2020 6:51 Comments || Top||

#7  What I saw was a match-up between a street fighter and a perfumed prince, moderated by the prince's consigliere.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/30/2020 12:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Did Biden wear a wire?

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/30/2020 13:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Trump played him well. Biden turned away from the left. Those loyal to Trump still are. This was a surgical job cutting away at Biden's voters. Hence media suggestion no more debates with Trump.
Posted by: Dale || 09/30/2020 17:23 Comments || Top||

#10  wow, it sure looks like an electronic device. Low power transmitter with receiver power pack to let him use a microscopic earpiece? Since today he seems once again to be a drooling moron, was he juiced and implanted? All his responses seemed canned and long used talking points, perhaps the time in prep was teaching him phrases from memory t be triggered by someone. You have to wonder if Trump had people looking to capture signals?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/30/2020 17:25 Comments || Top||

#11  God help me, I am listening to the rerun and at up to the 5.50 mark it's pretty civil, then Biden drops this absolute clanger while discussing pre-existing conditions. He specifies pregnancy and says - incredibly - "they can charge more for a woman than for a man for the exact same procedure". WTAF? Is this some of this "individual with a cervix" crap or is he just that addle-pated.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 09/30/2020 18:05 Comments || Top||


More absentee ballot hilarity in Noo Yawk
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trying to make it look like conservatives are committing voter fraud, too?
Posted by: gorb || 09/30/2020 5:51 Comments || Top||

#2  I would assume that New Yorkers that have left the city due to COVID are voting absentee.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/30/2020 18:54 Comments || Top||


NYGovCuomo says he has offered @NYCMayor to bring in the National Guard to assist with trash pickup
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Take out that Wilhelmine trash first
Posted by: Gruth Hupaimble1741 || 09/30/2020 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Tell the Truth now! How do you get Union workers to enter a war zone?
Posted by: magpie || 09/30/2020 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  ...draft them into the state militia, activate them, order them in, if they refuse, courts martial them.

[What the French once did when faced with a strike of union railroad workers]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/30/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#4  So that's the purpose of the National Guard now?

Figures a Dem would have them do this.
Posted by: charger || 09/30/2020 11:22 Comments || Top||

#5  $10 sez DeBlasio will decline / refuse this offer, or just ignore it. Either way, I'm w/ charger - this is NOT the purpose of the National Guard.
Posted by: Raj || 09/30/2020 11:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Dems want to clean the planet but can’t keep a city clean that they govern.

Pick up the trash and dump at the Mayor’s home or on top of the BLM painted on the street and suddenly resources will be available to pick it.
Posted by: Airandee || 09/30/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#7  The only trash the National Guard should go around picking up are Democrats.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 09/30/2020 11:46 Comments || Top||

#8  it is NOT the job of the military to pick up trash.

it IS the job of the mayor to ensure that services the citizens are paying for via taxes are being completed.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 09/30/2020 11:46 Comments || Top||


Biden's Texas Political Director Implicated in Massive Mail-In Ballot Harvesting Scheme in Harris County
[AMGREATNESS] A Biden Campaign operative in Texas is attempting to rig the 2020 election with the help of others in a massive ballot harvesting scheme, according to two private Sherlocks who testified under oath that they have "video evidence, documentation and witnesses" to prove it. With the help of mass mail-in ballots, the illegal ballot harvesting operation could harvest 700,000 ballots, one Harris County Democrat operative allegedly bragged.

The Sherlocks—a former FBI agent and former police officer—claim that Biden’s Texas Political Director Dallas Jones and his cohorts have been "hoarding mail-in and absentee ballots" and ordering operatives to fill them out for people in Harris County illegally, "including dead people, homeless people, and nursing home residents in the 2020 presidential election," Patrick Howley of the National File reported.

While law enforcement agencies are reportedly investigating these potential crimes, nothing will be done about it until "well after the November 3, 2020 election" the former FBI agent said.

Dallas Jones was appointed the Biden campaign’s Texas Political Director in late August.
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


GOP Senators Craft Bill to Prevent Biological Males from Competing in Female Sports
[BREITBART] Senators Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), James Lankford (R-OK), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) recently introduced a bill that will protect female athletes of all ages from being forced to complete against biological men.The issue has galvanized an unlikely coalition of women, from feminists to pro-family, pro-life advocates, who have teamed up with female athletes fighting against the transgender movement that believes "gender identity" and not biological sex should be the standard for competition in sports.

The bill also is tied to Title IX, the federal statute that prevents discrimination against women in sports because of their biological sex.

The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act would "make it a violation of Title IX for a school that receives federal education funds to permit a biological male to participate in a sports program designated for women and girls."
Posted by: Fred || 09/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why don't we just have sports?

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/30/2020 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Why can't the Senate worry about more important things like steroid use in baseball. /sarc
Posted by: Clem || 09/30/2020 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Sports becomes politicized by the Left ... the State controls all!
Posted by: magpie || 09/30/2020 9:56 Comments || Top||


Government
Michelle Malkin: Minnesota Rep. Seeing Ilhan Omar Voter Fraud Went to FBI But Due to Languid Response Contacted Project Veritas
[GatewayPundit] Michelle Malkin reported last night that the Minnesota Representative who uncovered the voter fraud scheme went to the FBI first but because of their "languid" response,decided to go to Project Veritas.

ICYMI — @stevedraz, the driving force in Minnesota state legislature on @ilhan-related investigations of campaign finance, immigration, tax & election fraud, tells me how he shared #ballotharvesting info w/languid FBI before enlisting @project_veritas to ACT==> https://t.co/yLuYBPjWZg

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 29, 2020
Posted by: Uloter Ebbomolet9368 || 09/30/2020 08:49 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Full interview: Minnesota GOP Rep. Steve Drazkowski exposes Ilhan Omar-tied election fraud
Posted by: Uloter Ebbomolet9368 || 09/30/2020 12:56 Comments || Top||

#2  #DefundTheFBI
Posted by: charger || 09/30/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||

#3  The FBI needs to be completely rebuilt. Anyone over a GS-13 level fired and all other agents re-interview after looking at their history.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/30/2020 14:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Wray is not the guy to overhaul the FBI. Get a reformer in there after Nov. 3rd. In the mean time Omar needs to be investigated for various crimes and charged where appropriate.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/30/2020 17:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Jail time followed by deportation
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 09/30/2020 22:47 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2020-09-30
  First debate shambles, Chris Wallace loses bigly
Tue 2020-09-29
  US moves its embassy from Baghdad to Erbil
Mon 2020-09-28
  U.S. Plans 'Full Withdrawal' From Iraqi Embassy
Sun 2020-09-27
  Azerbaijan launched a missile and aerial attack against Artsakh and Stepanakert Armenia
Sat 2020-09-26
  BLM protester in Los Angeles who shut down the road with a large mob got hit by a truck
Fri 2020-09-25
  LNA Kills ISIS 'Emir' in Southern Libya
Thu 2020-09-24
  Louisville: Two police officers shot
Wed 2020-09-23
  Canadian woman charged for sending ricin to President Trump & law enforcement agencies in Texas was previously deported
Tue 2020-09-22
  Twenty-Five Afghan policemen dead after attempt to break Taliban siege in Uruzgan
Mon 2020-09-21
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targets federal funds
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  Concentrated, Deadly Ricin Sent to White House, Addressed to President Trump
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