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--Tech & Moderator Notes
Today is "Giving Tuesday"
[Hat tip to The Epoch Times]

I may give a little to The Epoch Times, and Mrs. Bobby is lining up charities to feed the needy, and Toys for Tots.

I will also hit Fred's Tip Jar.

I am thankful I have the ability to give.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/01/2020 11:34 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hit Toys for Tots every year
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||

#2  So very much to be thankful for this year. I heard last night that the plan is to have all seniors and front line folks inoculated by the end of the year, and all who want it done by June, 2021. An ambitious plan, and one that puts Dr. Fauci in his place.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2020 15:42 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
LTG Flynn's Tribute to God, Family, and Sidney Powell
[Free Pressers] By Almighty God’s grace and with the love and courage of my wife Lori, the strength and fortitude of our families, and the inspiration of our friends and every single patriot who circled me with their prayers, wisdom, and kindness, I say thank you from the bottom of my heart.

For the first time in more than four years and because of my fearless attorney, Sidney Powell, the Guardian Angel of American Justice, and thousands of good people with endless energy rallying together on my behalf, I breathe freedom and liberty today.

We are a nation founded by leaders who fought tyranny and oppression to ensure that all American citizens be treated fairly and equally across this land. These constitutional and God-given rights should never be denied or disguised behind false prosecution or political persecution out of fear, hate, or an opposing voice. Those who scowl at the very core of our Republic and act from vengeance or revenge against one of us, threaten the safety and security of all of us.

Never again should any family or individual be so viciously targeted, maligned, smeared, and threatened such has been the experience of my family and I. Not you and your loved ones, not me nor President Trump, our First Lady, and the Trump children. Stand with me today in renouncing this betrayal of trust that has burdened our nation and proclaim with one united voice across this land that we will never again allow the rightful power of the citizens of this country to be uprooted, undercut, usurped, or held hostage by a coup against our nation, a duly elected President or any future president of these United States.

For over three decades, it has been my honor and privilege as a Soldier and public servant to fight for the rights of American citizens and for citizens of the world. I have fought alongside the bravest men and women on distant battlefields in the midst of the fire and fury of war. In this fight for my life and liberties on the battlefield of justice and truth, my faith in God and the love and support of my wife Lori have seen me through.
There's more at the link. Go be inspired.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/01/2020 08:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks Bobby.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 9:04 Comments || Top||


Sean Hannity Tells Sidney Powell Trump ‘Needs to Pardon His Whole Family and Himself' Before Leaving Office in January
[Mediaite] Sean Hannity urged President Donald Trump to issue blanket pardons for both himself and all of his family members before he leaves office in January, to protect them over any possible crimes that they committed during his four years in the Oval Office.

On the Monday edition of his radio show, Hannity complained to pro-Trump lawyer and election fraud conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell that the incoming Biden administration was being publicly encouraged to investigate and prosecute Trump for any criminal misconduct while he was president.

Six months ago, notably, Hannity offered his own vocal endorsement of Trump investigating his White House predecessor during an interview with Mediaite. In that discussion, he affirmed that he wanted the Trump Justice Department to probe both Obama and Biden about the so-called unmasking scandal — which turned out to be a huge nothingburger — and intimated that it was tantamount to a "criminal conspiracy."

Hannity kicked off his discussion with Powell by railing against the Russia election interference investigation conducted by the FBI and Special Counsel, and asked about Trump’s recent pardon of her client, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the president’s first national security advisor, who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

She called the move "bittersweet," noting that "not everybody can get a presidential pardon."

"Well that’s a good point," Hannity replied. "I watched [former Justice Department deputy and 2019 House impeachment adviser] Andrew Weissman come out and literally say Biden’s AG needs to go after Donald Trump. I’m like, the President out the door needs to pardon his whole family and himself because they want this witch-hunt to go on in perpetuity, they’re so full of rage and insanity against the President."

"I assume the power of the pardon is absolute and that he should be able to pardon anybody that he wants to?" Hannity added.

"It is absolute it’s in the Constitution," Powell confirmed, adding a caveat that "I don’t know about his authority to pardon himself."

But she quickly added that such an act of self-exoneration for Trump and his family "should not be necessary."

That’s because Trump, she claimed in her fanciful version of events, is "going to get another four years in office to finish the job he started." She then went to list more baseless charges about "massive" election fraud.
Posted by: 746 || 12/01/2020 01:02 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The establishment's (Dems, Romney GOP, etc) first order of business will be to ensure that the 2016 upset can never be repeated.

They HAVE to neutralize Trump & allies as political players.

They HAVE to mete out exemplary punishment.

There's no guarantee pardons of this kind would be recognized as valid, and they wouldn't offer protection from state charges anyway.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 12/01/2020 3:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Not unlike the false claims and charges Trump has faced since his inauguration, I see plenty of circumstantial evidence of fraud, wrong doing and election rigging. I also see little if any indication that the DoJ, the congress, or anyone else is willing to undertake an investigation or attempt a remedy.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 3:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Of course there are really ignorant people in all the wrong places out there to make this play. This is exactly why Caesar cross the Rubicon with his legions. You literally create a 'are you willing to die on that hill' moment. Got to stop and think, are all those fake voters going to show up and defend your power or the other guys real ones to defend theirs?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/01/2020 6:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Does anyone think the left would let a person stop them from persecuting the Trump family?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/01/2020 7:32 Comments || Top||

#5  no
Posted by: Chris || 12/01/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  There is no doubt they will go after Trump. They will go after every family member, every business, every holding. They know that if they don't this will happen again. Their very existence depends on the death of Trump and all he stood for.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/01/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm not sure sure they'll go after Trump beyond attempts to undo his work, continue to misrepresent him, and slander him at every opportunity. Targeting him for prosecution will make him a lightning rod for resistance at a time when they are on pretty shakey ground.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/01/2020 10:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Congress is already calling for it. I don't think Biden has the balls to stop them. But we will see.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/01/2020 10:50 Comments || Top||

#9  The feral govt does not obey the law, so there is no law for anyone. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. We do not want to go there. But the Left is full of vitriol and hubris. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/01/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

#10  to protect them over any possible crimes that they committed during his four years in the Oval Office.

If they actually committed crimes, they deserve to have the book thrown at them, same as anyone else. Perhaps Mr. Hannity meant to say false accusations of crimes.

There is always big talk in Congress. But Congress couldn’t make it stick when they tried impeaching him last time, and Donald Trump the billionaire has very good lawyers on retainer, and next session the Democratic Party will have a much slimmer majority than they do now. So anything they try openly will be a chew toy for him.

And anything they try surreptitiously will be grist for Project Veritas’s undercover videographers and the reelection team collecting affidavits over the next four years.

All that does assume that in the end Joe Biden will be the one sworn in in January. Despite all the shrieking in the Democrat-supporting press and social media, that is not yet certain.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#11  #1 The establishment's (Dems, Romney GOP, etc) first order of business will be to ensure that the 2016 upset can never be repeated. They HAVE to neutralize Trump & allies as political players. They HAVE to mete out exemplary punishment.

Yes, exactly. These people are so frenzied in their hatred and loathing that they aren't capable of any kind of fact-based, rational opposition to this man. It is impossible to reason with them, to talk about consequences, or means and ends or greater and lesser evils.

They are insane. They actually believe that their illegal and horrifying behavior -- four years of nonstop lies, dirty tricks, and persecution -- is saving the Republic from Orange Adolf. In their twisted minds they play the role of von Stauffenberg.

Even people who call themselves "conservatives" are willing believe and say the most foolish things if by doing so they can put a stake through the Orange Nosferatu.

As Reagan said of the Soviets, these people "reserve the right to commit any crime and tell any lie."

They will never cease persecuting him until they put a stake through his heart or until he and Melania are found dead in their Mar a Lago bunker or both.
Posted by: Whuting the Florid6534 || 12/01/2020 11:33 Comments || Top||

#12  That statement is wrong in so many ways, hannity needs to stick at least five up his ass.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/01/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||


Liberals Want You Demoralized, So Don't Be
It's Kurt
[Townhall] The next guy who tells me his sad feelz are so intense over the election that he’s not going to vote in Georgia or anywhere else ever again cuz all is lost and blah blah blah is getting slapped.
Hear, hear!
Hard. I’m getting tired of loser talk, and I won’t have it.

This is for the benefit of the weak-hearts: Oh no, did you have a set-back? Did stuff not work out the way you wanted? Is it — gasp! — hard?

Too bad. Man up. Or woman up. Or genderfluid up. Just stop bawling like Brian Stelter over his cousins when he gets passed a bowl of mashed potatoes and get your head right. We’re in a fight. Fix your bayonets and follow me over the top.

Freedom, justice, and liberty aren't easy to win. If they were, everyone would have them. When the going gets tough, the tough don't act like a bunch of millennial college students sobbing over microaggressions – and when you find, to your horror as I just did, that Word recognizes and autocorrects "microaggressions," you don't take that as a sign of cultural defeat and just give up and put in your application for cultural serfdom.

Die on your feet before you live on your knees.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The steal does not demoralize me. The response of the Republican party does. If they let this stand, then there will never be a fair election again. The system, not voters, will pick winners and losers. I won't play that game. No money. No votes. No advocacy. I'll be done.

Golf, travel and scotch are way, way better than voting for the Mitt Romney's of the world. Plus RINOS won't need my vote anyway. Those will all be computer generated.
Posted by: Iblis || 12/01/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#2  I hear you, Iblis. Here's what Kurt says:

At Cannae, Hannibal slaughtered 80,000 Romans. And not just any Romans – lying dead in the dirt were the cream of Roman society. But did the Romans give up? Did they start talking about how Carthage cheated and now there was no hope and how they might as well ditch Jupiter and get on the Baal bus?

No.

They built another army. And then they fought. And eventually, they razed Carthage, sold everyone that they didn’t run through with a gladius to the highest bidder, and sowed the fields with salt.

See, that’s how hard people take care of business.


Besides, Trump hasn't given up yet.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/01/2020 15:23 Comments || Top||

#3  If they let this stand, then there will never be a fair election again.

Correct. Here's what will happen:

1. Cucks and squishes will say "never mind" and join hands with the cheaters - for the sake of "unity" and "healing."

2. Non-cuck party professionals will say, "Don't get mad -- get even" and figure out how to cheat more effectively than the Dems

3. The cheating & dirty tricks arms race will escalate.

4. Eventually this process will exhaust itself and the democratic electoral system will collapse.
Posted by: Shase Poodle3535 || 12/01/2020 21:04 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
NATO chief warns: ‘China is investing massively in new weapons'
[Washington Examiner] China’s growing military power holds potential dangers for the transatlantic alliance, according to NATO’s civilian chief.

"China is investing massively in new weapons," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday. "It is coming closer to us, from the Arctic to Africa, and by investing in our infrastructure."

That unease spurred the foreign ministers of the alliance to dedicate a session of their annual meeting, held virtually this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, to the rising communist power. The dialogue took place as Stoltenberg is orchestrating a NATO Reflection Group to identify the transatlantic alliance’s priorities over the next decade — an effort that Stoltenberg hopes will culminate in a visit from President-elect Joe Biden in the spring.

"That’s the best way for all allies’ heads of state and government to meet, to sit down," he said. "And at that summit, I will also put forward my proposals on how to continue to strengthen and continue to adapt NATO as an agile and strong alliance."

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s team put an emphasis on China’s anti-satellite weaponry, which could be used to sever military communications in a conflict and cripple Western economies.

"China is very active in space, and there needs to be a lot of work in space to make sure that we have, hopefully, an ability to see where satellites are and determine what our deterrence and defense capabilities can be to assure that those cannot be used against us — against any of us," U.S. Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison said Monday. "That’s just one area."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 06:37 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Difficult to imagine where the capital is coming from that permits the Chinese to make such alarming investments in weapons.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm more concerned with their investment in American politicians.
Posted by: Matt || 12/01/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#3  The Chinese invested $400 million in Dominion Voting. Much better payoff than ICBMs.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/01/2020 13:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Cyber Security Expert: Dominion Was Connected to Internet on Election Day, Communicated Overseas
[American Greatness] Members of President Donald Trump’s legal team held a public hearing Monday with select members of Arizona’s legislature to gather and examine evidence of 2020 election irregularities and fraud in the state.

The point of the "fact-finding mission," led by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, was to collect evidence for Arizona lawmakers that would justify holding a special session to investigate further.

Giuliani’s first witness at the was officer retired U.S. Army Colonel Phil Waldron, a cybersecurity expert who spent half of his 30-year military career as a cavalry officer, conducting armed reconnaissance, and the last half of his career in information warfare.

Waldron stated that the common software in most of the automated systems operating in the United States today come from Smartmatic Voting Systems and are vulnerable to hackers or on-site manipulation.

Waldon said that his "white hat hackers" had witnessed Dominion communicating with overseas servers, directly contradicting fired Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Chris Krebs, who said the 2020 election was "the most secure in American history" and that "there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

He said his team used a reconnaissance tool to look at the Dominion voting network on November 3, confirming that the it was connected to the internet, and that "there were plenty of vulnerabilities" allowing hackers to "penetrate the system."

Waldon said his team observed "packet traffic" that went from the U.S. to Frankfurt, Germany, but wasn’t sure if the traffic was coming from Dominion, or another automated voting system.

He explained that "packet traffic" are "bits of information that are sent over the internet protocol from one point to another." An automated voting system company called Scytl is located in Germany.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 08:10 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Connected to overseas systems to what end? For what purpose ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  The thing to keep in mind is that the cyber-minute men and women aren't going away. So no matter how unpalatable to the emotionally unstable in our midst, when exactly would it be better to have it all come out?
Posted by: Cesare || 12/01/2020 9:52 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 to actual or mirrored servers to recieve, modify and inject back into real time election results from locations outside the US and jurisdiction of US laws.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/01/2020 14:16 Comments || Top||

#4  400 Million sent to Dominion a month before the election from UBS with a Chinese connection?

https://summit.news/2020/12/01/firm-that-owns-dominion-voting-systems-received-400-million-from-swiss-bank-with-connection-to-chinese-government-before-election/
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/01/2020 14:45 Comments || Top||

#5  He also pointed out that, even if the 'voting tallying' machines did not have a direct connection to the internet, the server they do connect to does. Someone else mentioned that they traced ethernet cables from the voting machines to a central 'server' which had an internet connection.
The best part was when the mathematician mentioned that there is no reason to use floating-point values (values where you have fractional values to the 'right' of the decimal point) for tallying unless you intend to cheat and use 'weighted race tallying' - tallying each Biden vote as 1.3 votes and each Trump vote as only 0.7 votes - effectively giving 30% of the Trump votes to Biden.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/01/2020 15:15 Comments || Top||

#6  ^In house that is called client/server.

There are all kinds of server configurations. Proxy server is the server that is LAN proxy for the client machines so they can have access to the internet.

If the IP address of the voting machines are 192.168.whatever.whatever then they are part of a local area network (LAN) in the building and considered the client, connected to the outside world through the web proxy server that has IP Adresses such as 158.234.23.89. If the voting machines have noon-192.168... IP Addresses they are directly connected to the Internet.

There has to be WAN (Wide Area Network) of servers that voting locations throughout the state send all the vote tallies to which then gives the world the state totals and that is what you see scrolling across the screen.

The only reason servers would be outside the US is to manipulate and adjust votes and make that illegality harder to prosecute.

I have pinged servers in South Korea, France and London and can send data packets to them in real time (mili-seconds) across the world.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/01/2020 15:30 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ and that was before fiber optics which now do speed of light data transmissions between servers around the world.
Posted by: Glerese Elmavise9607 || 12/01/2020 15:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Ref #6: While my knowledge is way dated, I'd put my money on Ebbo's assessment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 15:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Like, hey, man, dis is the big man, Bill Barr. He say he ain't seen no "widespread" election sham. He da man, man.

Pit Bull Barr story
Posted by: Clem || 12/01/2020 16:18 Comments || Top||

#10  Actually 192.168.*.* as well as 10.*.*.* (and I think a few more) are considered 'private' subnets. Those IP addresses are not resolvable over the 'internet'. Thousands of companies probably use the 10.* subnet internally and route their 'internet' traffic thru a proxy which also has a static, public 'internet' address. Proxy's are also used to filter traffic. I know one company who's proxies intentionally act as a 'man in the middle' to be able to decrypt, examine, and re-encrypt SSL traffic. It was pain in the ass to work with.

Whatever. We don't know what type of protocol or protections they are using (if any). For all we know each voting machine is sending data, in plaintext, to the central server in Germany which tallys them all up, weights them, and sends out the 'real time' updates - in floating point which is how you get a 1.3 votes for a candidate and 0.7 for his opponent...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/01/2020 16:31 Comments || Top||


Mathematician Says Biden May have Received 130 Percent of the Democrat Vote in Maricopa County, AZ
[American Greatness] A scientist in the fields of pattern recognition in mathematical analysis, testified Monday that Biden may have received a weighted 130 percent of Democrat votes in Maricopa County, Arizona, to help him win the state.

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai is an Indian-American scientist, engineer, politician, and entrepreneur who holds four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including a Ph.D. in biological engineering.

Ayyadurai presented his findings via video to select members of Arizona’s legislature during a public hearing at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix. The event was put on by members of President Donald Trump’s legal team to gather and examine evidence of 2020 election irregularities and fraud in the state.

The point of the "fact-finding mission," led by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, was to collect evidence for Arizona lawmakers that could justify holding a special session to investigate further.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 08:08 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ayyadurai made a pretty fair argument that the only scenario that seemed to give the results was to dial the vote machine to 1.3 for Biden and 0.7 for Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/01/2020 9:09 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ What other reason or justification can be given for fractional digitization of voter results.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  The event was a waste of time, a 12 hour waste of time. In the middle of it our dumbass Governor certified the vote. As for Maricopa county??? Did the Maricopa county legislators show up for the hearing??? NOPE! Not a one. They could care less, they know it was a fraud, they are helping to perpetrate that fraud, and no one from the governor down cares.. This state is a loss to the California democrat plans to turn it blue.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/01/2020 10:17 Comments || Top||


How Liberals Can Destroy Football with COVID, and Why They'd Want To
[American Thinker] Scan the sports headlines, and it's not hard to see that the NFL and college football are increasingly in the crosshairs of the radical left's bid to take down America through COVID. And if recent history is any indication, Roger Goodell will soon fall all over himself to show that the NFL and he should be patted on the back by Dr. Fauci and the rest of the ruling class elites, in step with the leftist trends they all (wrongly) believe to be sweeping America.

Football has always been reviled by the left. It is quintessentially American: invented in this country; played by high-testosterone, masculine men; and operating almost entirely as a super-competitive meritocracy — i.e., the test of whether someone gets to play in the NFL is whether he can play, and play better than the other guy. In the NFL in 2020, there's no time to humor racism or any other "ism" in fielding a winning team; there's only the all-defining imperative priority to put the best players on the field and "coach 'em up" to play the game well.

All of those attributes of the sport are precisely why it has been so popular in America; it has been aligned with American cultural norms and preferences for decades. The sport's popularity is in fact proof that America as a whole is not racist — systemically or otherwise. Americans don't root for their team or watch the NFL in huge numbers based on a team's compliance with racial hiring quotas; they root and watch because they appreciate the best playing the best using talents that most of us don't have, and deciding on a level playing field who wins a competitive game and who loses.

That's the essence of free people — players and fans and owners and broadcasters and advertisers — enjoying free markets. And that's what the left hates.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 07:01 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's associated with maleness and "the patriarchy," so it must he expunged...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/01/2020 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Not sure how the Left can hate the National Felons League and all of its PC-ness and minority-heavy make-up. And the Rooney Rule.
Posted by: Clem || 12/01/2020 7:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Newsflash, football killed itself by lethal injection of leftist politics.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 12/01/2020 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Bob spikes it! We still have this.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 7:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Not sure how the Left can hate the National Felons League and all of its PC-ness and minority-heavy make-up. And the Rooney Rule.

Same way pro-BLM signs in the window didn't prevent businesses from being looted, vandalized and burned.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/01/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#6  BLM'ers knew those signs were b.s. The National Felons League are more "sincere".

Imagine, women in the front office now, on the pitch as referees, even as coaches on the sidelines.

I guess its a time-old tradition: the Left (and others) hate success.

Pro sports is less and less and less a part of my life. Even the NHL joined the PC fray.
Posted by: Clem || 12/01/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Newsflash, football killed itself by lethal injection of leftist politics.

Yep - it happened entirely on Roger Goodell's watch. I've never seen a CEO type get rolled so easily by the left.

Come to think of it, has anyone seen Goodell and MA Gov. Charlie Baker in the same room at the same time? It would explain a lot.
Posted by: Raj || 12/01/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Bob spikes it! We still have this.
At least until they flood the sport with trans like they are doing with track and field, swimming, etc...

Rugby anyone? From a bumper sticker: "Rugby players have balls of steel."
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/01/2020 8:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Go BLACKS !
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 8:30 Comments || Top||

#10  I recall nearly 30 years ago, Rush Limbaugh said the left wants to destroy football.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/01/2020 8:46 Comments || Top||

#11  The NFL has been in a rush to destroy itself for about a decade now.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/01/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#12  Look around, football? yes. But anything of tradition that involves and encourages participatory social cohesion. Well, along with destroying small business and any semblance of social order. Why would anybody do such a thing?
Posted by: Cesare || 12/01/2020 9:59 Comments || Top||

#13  Its not about the left folks. Its about the middle class. There is an effort to remove the middle class, and its working. COVID has closed most small businesses, projections are that over a third will not return. This causes a rift in the middle class, you either have a good paying job with a large company or you slide out of the middle class. Everything that the middle class enjoys, brew pubs, eating out with friends, football, basketball, all the local sports like softball are all gone. Once the middle class is destroyed we as a republic are through. There will be the upper class, and the sheep. But keep wearing your mask, stay at home, give all your rights away for security, and sit idle while the key to our republic - fair elections- is stolen. So again its not the left, its the global elites, in both parties that are driving this.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/01/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||

#14  Broken link.
Posted by: Jaiger Sleath7993 || 12/01/2020 16:52 Comments || Top||

#15  Link fixed. Thank you for the heads up, Jaiger Sleath7993.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2020 20:09 Comments || Top||

#16  I remember an article a few years back (10? summavabich)

About someone who used to go to Patriots games back in the day. All grown up, he went to a game, and cheered.

Said he got the stink eye from the regulars who viewed it as more an event, like cheering during a movie and getting shushed.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/01/2020 22:10 Comments || Top||

#17  National Felons League can go under for all I care. From what I understand, Super Bowl viewership has been declining (include me in that). And over-exposure can't help. Now three scheduled games on Thanksgiving...a game on Thursday...Sunday night. But go ahead and play games every night. I don't care.
Posted by: Clem || 12/01/2020 22:44 Comments || Top||


'Freedom Force' Fighter and Former NFL Star Burgess Owens: 'The Left Hates Business Owners'
[Red State] On Sunday, Burgess Owens joined Fox & Friends Weekend to talk about freedom and forces, and along the way he poured quite a concrete comment: The Left hates business owners.

The newly elected Utah representative — and former NFL player — appeared as part of the new "Freedom Force," a reported GOP counterpart to AOC and the gang’s "Squad."

Burgess’s message: Freedom Force will protect businesses and those who toil at them.

And here’s a colossal claim — on the Far Left flank, there’s hatred for owners of American enterprise:
"So...if you wonder why they’re shutting down things right now — because no matter who you are, Democrat, independent, or Republicans, the Left hates business owners because it empowers the middle class."

It’s certainly not a stretch to say there’s overt opposition to business ownership. Despite dreamy assertions among the woke, socialism is not a system where you as a low-wage worker suddenly become one of many CEOs. It is, rather, a system in which business ownership is banned — all products and means of production are instead forcibly taken by the biggest business of all: Government.

In other words, if you own a business and say you’re a socialist, either:
As the erstwhile Oakland Raider sees it, owning a business is a cornerstone of liberty in the United States:
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 06:52 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Small, privately owned, no real global impact, generally under the radar of gov't hiring mandates, of course the left hates small businesses.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 6:57 Comments || Top||

#2  The Left hates everyone who disagrees with them and who impedes their march towards Marxism.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/01/2020 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  The Left hates everyone who disagrees with them and who impedes their march towards Marxism.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/01/2020 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Well yeah. Small and medium sized businesses are the core of American conservatism. Of course they want them destroyed.
Posted by: Jaiger Sleath7993 || 12/01/2020 16:51 Comments || Top||


Lt. Gen. Flynn Says China Backs Democrat Party's Election Efforts
[OAN] According to Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the Chinese Communist Party is supporting the Democrat Party’s effort to steal the election from President Trump.

In an interview Sunday, Flynn said common warfare tactics used by the Chinese military, namely information control and manipulation, have been employed in this election. He noted this is part of Mainland China’s advancing of its plan to become the only superpower in the world.

In order to achieve that, Flynn said Beijing would need to remove President Trump.

"Their sort of plan was by about the middle of this century that we are in right now and I believe during the last 2016 election when they didn’t get the candidate that they needed and the kind of ideology that they saw American moving toward, they were not going to allow 2020 to happen," he explained.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 06:28 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  We would most likely know this in our country if we had a MSM worth a damn. Our 4th estate has become a 5th column (I use this def: a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country).
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/01/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  The DS is going to have to do something about Flynn. He knows how the plumbing is routed. He's obviously not going to roll over and slip away quietly into the night.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 8:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Gen. Flynn must present an existential threat to the Left; otherwise they would not try as hard as they have to destroy him.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/01/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#4  MSM is openly helping the CCP.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/01/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  If verified, it could be even uglier that I thought:

HOLY COW! The Plot Thickens: Dominion Ownership was elusive and now seems like Communist China owns them! What the hell? Lin Wood says it all…
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/01/2020 20:03 Comments || Top||


LTG Flynn Interview (video)
[Bannedvideo] In his first interview since receiving a full pardon from President Trump, Michael Flynn outlined to WVW-TV hosts Lt. General McInerney and conservative activist Mary Fanning on Saturday the legal path to victory laid out before President Trump.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I like the idea of bannedvideo as a response to YouBoob but it seems they need more bandwidth.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/01/2020 12:10 Comments || Top||



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