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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Pippi Lectures US Congress on Alleged Climate Change
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] First they trotted out David Hogg to lecture us on the 2nd Amendment, now a 16-year-old from Sweden is lecturing us on non-existent global warming.

16-year-old Swedish ’Climate Change’ activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change...
appeared before US politicians on Wednesday to lecture the US on the climate hoax.

Meanwhile China and India continue to be the world’s biggest polluters because Climate Change legislation isn’t about the environment, it’s about a global scheme to redistribute wealth.

Thunberg has a myriad of mental health issues. She is autistic, has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and suffers from Asperger syndrome and the left is pushing her out onto the world stage and exploiting her.

"Please save your praise. We don’t want it," Thunberg said sputtered stuttered thundered. "Don’t invite us here to just tell us how inspiring we are without actually doing anything about it because it doesn’t lead to anything."

"If you want advice for what you should do, invite scientists, ask scientists for their expertise. We don’t want to be heard. We want the science to be heard."

Thunberg then blasted Congress and said: "I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry."

Clearly this child has no clue what she’s talking about, but the left is treating her like she’s the savior of the world.

Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pippi the Deranged Child
Kamala the Happy Hooker
Bolshie Bernie
Liz the Squawking Squaw
Sandy the Bug-Eyed Batty Bartender
Tlaib the Terror
Joe the Slow
Tex Kennedy the Brain-Dead
Marianne on MaryJane

Is this all a bad dream?

How the hell did our Republic manage to produce so many f---ing crazies at once?

It's like the complete inverse of the age of the Founding Fathers.
Posted by: Lex || 09/21/2019 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Please don't call her Pippi.
Pippi wasn't a clueless child manipulated by her parents.
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/21/2019 1:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Standard liberal response - they loved being insulted.

"Isn't she just adorable ? Oh Mark, let's have a retarded child ! Let's buy one !"

Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/21/2019 1:30 Comments || Top||

#4  You can have a kid like Greta - just use Ritalin.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/21/2019 4:05 Comments || Top||





#9  Shame on the left for exploiting kids with problems to prop up their "climate change God."

The good news for climate change adherents: The sun is expected to burn out in 5 billion years. That should stop the global warming aspect of climate change. No more iceberg melting and seas rising.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/21/2019 9:36 Comments || Top||

#10  What someone really should have done was reported her as an exploited child to CPS. They'd of been there in a flash, probably with a swat team.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/21/2019 10:45 Comments || Top||

#11  Go to Ace and take a look at that twit pic of her and Sideshow Bob (credit to commenter).

I mean, what 16 year old isn't in the habit of switching shirts with a, what, 23 year old? rich early stage heroin junky with....is that a Mortal Combat video game icon tattoo? well a bunch of stupid tats - and get this wearing a Mega-Corp advertisement shirt. What a loser.

Moooommmm! The bank didn't give me that job!

Ok dear, the manager is coming will be over for dinner tomorrow, I'll talk to xer.

But I don't want a job! I want to play guitar for our band Extinction Rebellion! This sucks, I'm going down to the dock with Captain Jack!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/21/2019 12:23 Comments || Top||

#12  I detest those who make fun of the retarded. It's the lowest of the low.

But this case I will allow it.

Make fun of Congress as much as you like.
Posted by: Regular joe || 09/21/2019 12:29 Comments || Top||

#13 
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/21/2019 12:34 Comments || Top||

#14  She's a cutie pie all right. Bet there's a lot of congressmen who'd like to get to testify behind closed doors.



Posted by: jpal || 09/21/2019 16:01 Comments || Top||

#15  Thunberg has a myriad of mental health issues. She is autistic, has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and suffers from Asperger syndrome

Is it the photography, or is she also mongoloid?
Posted by: Lex || 09/21/2019 20:27 Comments || Top||

#16  brilliant tactic. Anyone that challenges her knowledge or conclusions will look like a bully.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/21/2019 20:34 Comments || Top||

#17  No, I know morons, good, bad, and genetic. She is a programmed tool. If questioned like anyone should, who advocates the change in Western Lifestyle she recommends, she would fade and stutter like discharged robot, because she is
Posted by: Frank G || 09/21/2019 21:08 Comments || Top||

#18  It would be better not to attack a 16yo girl. Attack those who are (ab)using her.

Teenager have the right to be annoying, wrong or whatever.
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/21/2019 21:45 Comments || Top||

#19  In Norway she is not thought of highly.
Posted by: Dale || 09/21/2019 22:51 Comments || Top||

#20  Her behavior is extremely obnoxious.

Anyone who is invited to make a case to the public needs to treat his or her hosts with the same degree of courtesy and respect as a guest invited to one's house would be expected to show.

She is also exploiting her age: 16 is too old to pull the temper-tantrum child routine ("I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry").

In 2 years she will be an adult, and will deserve all the opprobrium and disgust that will come her way.
Posted by: Lex || 09/21/2019 23:29 Comments || Top||

#21  I agree with EC. The more you crushed her with facts the bigger bully you'd appear. It's a no win, that is why she was programmed as is.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/21/2019 23:48 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Justin Trudeau stands exposed as phony like the ‘cancel culture’ left
[NYPOST] Justin Trudeau turns out to be even more of a vapid idiot than we’d thought. But what price will he pay for his idiocy? Canada’s ultraprogressive prime minister stands exposed as having donned black- or brownface at least three times in his younger years ‐ the most recent occasion apparently being in 2001, at age 29.

The first image to surface came from a private school’s "Arabian Nights" gala where Trudeau was also kitted out in turban and robe.

He apologized for that one Wednesday, then owned up to singing "Day O" in blackface at a high school talent show. (Apparently, no one was checking his old yearbooks until now.)

And Thursday, up popped an early ’90s video of Trudeau in blackface and an Afro wig.

He’s apologized: "I shouldn’t have done it. I should have known better, but I didn’t. And I’m really sorry."

Of course, he can’t claim that, bad as it looks now, people didn’t see donning blackface as such an invariably, horribly racist sin back then: Too much of the left spent too many days last year demanding Megyn Kelly’s scalp simply because she’d made that observation ‐ even though she never actually donned the offensive makeup.

She also apologized, on air and with tears ‐ but still lost her job.

Then again, the rules seem to be different for liberal sinners: Virginia’s Democratic governor and lieutenant gov both held on after their younger-days blackface photos surfaced.

To us, this is mainly just fresh proof that Trudeau is a phony ‐ a chameleon whose current perfect-PCness is a pose in pursuit of popularity and power. But is it worth his resignation? No. This scandal will simply be one more thing for Canadian voters to take into account in their coming elections, where polls already had him in trouble.

We can’t let "cancel culture" overtake all ‐ shaming people for past actions to the point that they get kicked off social media or, worse, lose their jobs.
Bullshit. Make em live by their own rules until they change them - for everyone. "Off with his head!" the Red Queen decrees
The greater sin is that many liberals use such tactics to get rid of those they don’t like, while fellow travelers get let off the hook. Will they be outraged equally and fairly, or turn such incidents into witch hunts? We already know the answer. You can win mercy when you generally say all the right (i.e., left) things and vote or govern accordingly. Otherwise ...

Better to stop getting hung up on every tweet, every ill-advised costume, every long-ago foolishness and instead focus on what’s important: Who a person is today.

Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When we do it it's OK, when The Other does the same thing it's not OK.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 09/21/2019 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Every white apologist is a phony. Or suicidal dumb.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/21/2019 1:46 Comments || Top||

#3  A pallid old pol of Harare
Wore all native garb on safari.
Oh boy, was he black!
Did that blunt teh attack
That would follow his blackface furore?

Sadly, it didn't. Might've fared better if he'd really gone native and affected... a Ferrari.
Posted by: Anginetle Elmoluter9778 || 09/21/2019 2:21 Comments || Top||

#4  "Brownface" doesn't make him a phony - except by his own rules. Viva Alinsky!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/21/2019 4:03 Comments || Top||


#6  Woke - See: Reaper Indoctrination
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2019 7:49 Comments || Top||

#7  The Salem Witch Trials accelerated when local farmers realized they could grab their neighbors' land by accusing them of bogus crimes, and letting hysteria take its course.

Stalin and Beria's secret police depended heavily on ordinary citizen informants, many of whom were motivated by simple envy and resentment and who denounced their neighbors to the NKVD in hopes of snagging their coveted urban apartments when they were dragged off to the gulag.

Today's wokey-jokey identity politics mob is motivated more than anything by a power grab, the desire to out a cloud over every powerful white male in order to snag his position when the mob brings him down - regardless of whether there's even a shred of evidence of the bogus crimes they accuse him of.

This is a power grab, pure and simple.

Posted by: Lex || 09/21/2019 8:05 Comments || Top||

#8  But what price will he pay for his idiocy?

Resignation would be just fine with me - it's well past time to make these SOB's pay the same price as Brendan Eich did.
Posted by: Raj || 09/21/2019 8:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Justin Trudeau turns out to be even more of a vapid idiot than we’d thought. But what price will he pay for his idiocy?

We've got a bunch of our own vapid lefty idiots running for office. Hopefully, none of them will win the presidency. If one of them should win, we will then have to ask: "What price will we pay for the idiocy?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/21/2019 9:17 Comments || Top||

#10  "What price will we pay for the idiocy?"

See: Obama, Barack
Posted by: Glotle Anginelet8973 || 09/21/2019 9:24 Comments || Top||

#11  "people didn’t see donning blackface as such an invariably, horribly racist sin back then"

That's close, but not it. Blackface used to mean something other than just darkening your skin for a costume. It was the intentional mocking black folks with specific minstrel show makeup. Now intent doesn't matter and even a super-dark tan is enough to get one branded a racist.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/21/2019 12:05 Comments || Top||

#12  "I shouldn’t have done it. I should have known better, but I didn’t. And I’m really sorry."

And then his eyebrows fell off.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/21/2019 12:42 Comments || Top||

#13  Unlike Justin Castro Trudeau, I remember how many times I've worn blackface.
Zero.
I've never got the point or the "humor"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/21/2019 12:46 Comments || Top||

#14  Pretty sure Fidel wore some kind of face makeup when he was fighting the the Batistas in the jungle. Maybe not blackface but still like father like son they say.
Posted by: jpal || 09/21/2019 18:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Next one out? Booker memo warns he may not be in 2020 race 'much longer'
[NBC} Shartacus: "Oh noes! Hold me T-Bone!" Sen. Cory Booker must raise nearly $2 million in the next 10 days or the presidential candidate has no "legitimate long-term path forward," according to a memo to staff from the campaign manager obtained by NBC News.

The struggling candidate's campaign manager, Addisu Demissie, warned that after weaker-than-expected fundraising in the early part of September, the campaign needs to rake in another $1.7 million before the last day of the financial quarter on Sept. 30.

"Without a fundraising surge to close out this quarter, we do not see a legitimate long-term path forward," Demissie wrote in the Saturday memo to staff and supporters. "The next 10 days will determine whether Cory Booker can stay in this race."
"Send money!"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/21/2019 12:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fartacus ran outta gas
Posted by: Lex || 09/21/2019 13:23 Comments || Top||

#2  But what will T-bone say?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/21/2019 13:34 Comments || Top||

#3  and then he'll get a shave.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/21/2019 14:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump getting the Biden corruption re-look in the Ukraine (note the enormous reaction, proof of how it scares them) leaves Pokeahontass and BernardotheCommunist as the likely contenders. Leftist loons Trump will destroy in the general election.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/21/2019 14:29 Comments || Top||

#5  sorry but my giveadam for any of the dems is busted
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/21/2019 19:32 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/21/2019 19:53 Comments || Top||


Whistleblower Complaint Now Looks Like Democrat Effort to Protect Joe Biden from Investigation
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] The mysterious "whistleblower" case now looks like a coordinated Democrat effort to block any investigation of presidential candidate Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
for corrupt pressure on Ukraine to drop the investigation of Burisma, an energy company operating in the country, on which his son Hunter Biden was a board member.

In March 2016, then Vice-President Joe Biden warned Ukraine that $1 billion in loan guarantees would be withheld by the U.S. unless they replaced Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor general who was investigating Hunter Biden. Ukraine did remove Shokin, and the prosecution was dropped. It looks like a clear case of a quid-pro-quo.

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
as things are starting to shake out, the current obfuscation to protect Joe Biden is President Trump asking Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelensky to take another look at the issues surrounding the former government’s decision to fire the Ukrainian prosecutor. This is presumably the call concerning to the whistleblower. To wit, democrats see this as Trump asking Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election.
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This could very well be so
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/21/2019 1:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually I just realize that this is the last link of the article.
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/21/2019 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, Biden threatened Ukraine with loss of $1 billion unless they fired the prosecutor investigating his son's company. We have him on tape bragging about it.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 09/21/2019 1:30 Comments || Top||

#4  I have to think that Trump seeking clarification of this matter now is in the interest of the Democrats. If there is a thare there that party should know about it and avoid nominating Biden. If there is nothing there they should know that and not let the Ukraine question affect the primaries.
It would be a disaster to the party if Biden is nominated and then the Ukraine issue heas up.
Posted by: Daniel || 09/21/2019 2:16 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Democrats are always defensive - cause they damn well know they're guilty.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/21/2019 3:56 Comments || Top||



#8  "How dare you expose our corruption!"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/21/2019 9:14 Comments || Top||

#9  What DID Hunter Biden actually do in Ukraine?
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/21/2019 17:40 Comments || Top||

#10  What DID Hunter Biden actually do in Ukraine?

Advertise his surname and collect cash.
Posted by: Lex || 09/21/2019 23:43 Comments || Top||


Iowa or bust: Kamala Harris' last gambit to save presidential run
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
hit the panic button Thursday on her free-falling campaign, announcing an Iowa-or-bust strategy that she hopes will put her on an Obama-like glide to the nomination.

She also raised the stakes by vowing to quit the race if she can’t muster a win, place or show in the Hawkeye State’s leadoff caucuses Feb. 3.

"We want to make sure that we have a strong top-three finish," said Harris campaign manager Juan Rodriguez. "I think that will kind of continue to give us a slingshot to go into that early primary state calendar and then make sure that we’re also competitive heading into Super Tuesday."

The Harris campaign was front-loaded as the race appeared to narrow to a two-way contest between former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
of Massachusetts.

Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont, who has been vying for a spot among the top three candidates, shook up his campaign leadership in New Hampshire this week and recently fired his Iowa campaign manager.
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, you can't sleep your way to the top?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/21/2019 4:00 Comments || Top||

#2  She did not even manage to sleep her way to the middle as it was said of a C list actress.
Posted by: Clyde Dribble8052 || 09/21/2019 4:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Westward, Ho!
Posted by: Lex || 09/21/2019 7:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Wait. She's from California right? Don't they have a ban on travel to Iowa?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/21/2019 8:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Send her a new set of knee pads.
Posted by: SR-71 || 09/21/2019 9:11 Comments || Top||

#6  She’s dead Jim.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 09/21/2019 9:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Ah, Gambit - is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/21/2019 11:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe she can cornhole her way to the top.

And as CrazyFool makes clear, she'll have to do it without actually traveling to Iowa.
Posted by: charger || 09/21/2019 15:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Maybe she'll get a special permit to travel to Iowa by Any Twosome Newsom
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/21/2019 22:02 Comments || Top||


California’s Request for Federal Funding to Combat Homelessness Rejected
[AMGREATNESS] As the homelessness crisis in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, escalates, state officials requested increased federal funding to combat the issue, only to be rejected by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson
... a neurosurgeon who was under the delusion that being brilliant qualifies him to be president....
, as reported by ABC.

The request letter was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) and "mayors of the state’s 13 largest cities." The letter points out California’s recent increase in spending on welfare programs, and claims that the "[Trump] Administration has proposed significant cuts to public housing and programs like the Community Development Block Grant."

In a return letter signed by Secretary Carson, the Administration responded by pointing out that California "seeks federal dollars...from hardworking American taxpayers but fails to admit that your State and local policies have played a major role in the current crisis." Carson lists some of the state-based causes as being an "over-regulated housing market, its inefficient allocation of resources, and its policies that have weakened law enforcement."

Experts who spoke to ABC agree that "state and local policies...have led to the affordable housing shortage in California," while also admitting that simply spending more money "could take decades...to impact homelessness."

The dispute comes as President Trump has also threatened to hit California with environmental violations due to the pollution caused by the high rate of homelessness. State Democratic leaders have mostly shifted the blame onto the president with partisan attacks, further highlighting the vast political divide between the president and the heavily Democratic state.
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Federal government gave them money for a bullet train that they canceled and refused to reimburse the Feds. Let them use that money. Which no longer exists, misappropriated as well.

Summary: Carson is wise to not allow corrupt, bankrupt California Dems use the homelessness as a cash cow.
Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310 || 09/21/2019 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  You gotta hand it to Californians - turning sh*t in the street to gold.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/21/2019 4:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Give'm the small violin. When Texas was in severe drought the Obama administration rejected their request for federal disaster declaration.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2019 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  You created the problem, now you deal with it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/21/2019 12:26 Comments || Top||

#5  No way no how. Like foreign aid to a third world kleptocracy the money will disappear after the first few "show projects". It will be farmed out to every loyal political action group and then disappear.
Posted by: magpie || 09/21/2019 13:49 Comments || Top||


Seattle's proposed tax on Uber, Lyft rides would help fund affordable housing, streetcar. Honest.
[SEATTLEPI] A proposed tax on Uber and Lyft rides in Seattle could help fund affordable housing units and transportation projects in the city, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced this week.

Durkan proposed the 51-cent tax on rideshares, on top of an existing city fee on Uber and Lyft of 24 cents per ride. The proposal would also require Seattle drivers be paid a minimum wage and get compensation for benefits and expenses effective July 2020.

But it is facing pushback from rideshare companies, which say the tax would raise prices for riders and hurt those in under-served communities.

Under the proposal, the city is predicting by the end of 2025, the new revenue will have resulted in $56 million to help fund the Center City Connector streetcar. More than $52 million generated would go toward building more than 500 housing units near transit, meant for people making between $15 and $25 per hour.

Another $17.75 million generated would go toward the creation of an independent Driver Resolution Center, to help provide an independent arbitration and appeals process for drivers. The center would also give education services on driver's rights.
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not Bee? Wow.
Posted by: Lex || 09/21/2019 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Seattle has no money sense.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/21/2019 7:34 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/21/2019 13:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Successful businesses? Tax 'em to death they didn't build that.
Posted by: jpal || 09/21/2019 17:09 Comments || Top||


Rep. Matt Gaetz Publicly Exposes Al Sharpton’s Lifetime of Racism, Bigotry and Prejudice
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] Wow. Representative Matt Gaetz delivered a thorough evisceration of civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
today that will long be remembered. Keep in mind that every Democrat candidate for President has kissed the ring of Sharpton in recent months. Oh, the backfire in this hearing was over-the-top. Chairman Nadler was so stressed out he couldn’t function.

The democrats on the House Judiciary Committee went absolutely bonkers and lost their minds as Gaetz continued to expose Sharpton’s history of bigotry and antisemitism. A whole new generation of younger viewers were treated to the history of Sharpton.
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California judge blocks law requiring Trump to submit tax returns to compete in state's 2020 primary
[FOXNEWS] A federal judge in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Thursday granted the Trump campaign’s request to block a new law that requires presidential and gubernatorial candidates to release five years of tax returns to run in the state’s primary elections.

The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, in July would have left the sitting president off of the ballot in California’s March 2020 primary unless he submitted five years’ worth of his tax returns by a Nov. 26 deadline, the Los Angeles Times reported. Under SB 27, Trump would be included on the general election ballot in November 2020. Opponents of the law argue depressed GOP voter turnout in the primary could discourage voters from showing up to vote for the president in the main race.

"We are encouraged that the federal court has tentatively concluded that a preliminary injunction should be granted. We look forward to the court’s written order," Trump's attorney, Jay Sukelow, said in a statement, according to The Hill. "It remains our position that the law is unconstitutional because states are not permitted to add additional requirements for candidates for president, and that the law violated citizens’ 1st Amendment right of association."

U.S. District Judge Morrison England Jr., who was appointed by President George W. Bush, said he would issue a final ruling by the end of the month. He said he handed down an initial order from the bench to prevent the "irreparable harm without temporary relief" for Trump and other candidates should the law go into effect, according to the Times.

Thursday’s hearing consolidated five separate lawsuits filed against the state in response to SB 27. But Trump was the most high-profile defendant. Some argue the law was politically motivated and was conjured up by Democrats who are leading a widespread push to force the president to turn over his tax returns.

"The elephant in the room is President Trump's tax returns ‐ that's what this is about," England said during the hearing in Sacramento. "But it does have implications that are far-reaching."

Trump's lawyers said SB 27 would unfairly force the president to give up his right to privacy. Trump has already complied with federal law by submitting an annual report that provides an overview of his finances. The Ethics in Government Act (EIGA), which was enacted in 1976, applies to a range of high-ranking federal officials, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The only requirements for President are written in the Constitution, be an American citizen over 35.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2019 7:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Just why is it I never see the phrase 'bill of attainder' when state bills are passed that are clearly aimed at one person? Drives me up a fu$kin' wall.
Posted by: Raj || 09/21/2019 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Pity as Trump could probably have gotten all of caliphornias inevitable dem electoral votes thrown out.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/21/2019 14:09 Comments || Top||


Still waiting for Dems to apologize to Kavanaugh
[NYPOST] It’s now been four days since The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

corrected ‐ er, retracted ‐ its attack against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Turns out the "new allegation" isn’t supported by the victim, a fact conveniently left out of the story.

And still Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
, Liz Warren, Beto O’Rourke;
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
, Julian Castro, Cory Spartacus Booker
U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone...
and Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
haven’t apologized or reversed their calls for Kavanaugh to be impeached.

How long will it be before at least one of them shows the basic decency and fairness to take back the impeachment demand? We’re waiting.
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Alinsky them.
Time for a tsunami of defamation lawsuits against these shameless liars.
Posted by: Lex || 09/21/2019 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  They're Democrats. Basic decency isn't a job requirement
Posted by: Frank G || 09/21/2019 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  It is time to MoveOn™ to the next leftist talking point so move along, move along.
Posted by: magpie || 09/21/2019 10:16 Comments || Top||

#4  You wouldn't believe some of the stuff that comes out of MoveOn.org. My sister asked me to vote on an online petition about some issue related to her union job and their contract renewal. I did it and ever since I've been getting MoveOn propaganda daily. You should sign yourself up and see how they really think.
Posted by: jpal || 09/21/2019 17:26 Comments || Top||


Bill de Blasio finally gives up on presidential bid — but not on torturing New York
[NYPOST] Mayor Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...
has finally realized what the rest of the country did long ago: He has no chance of being president of the United States.

But that doesn’t mean he’s done torturing New York.

Oh, on the plus side, New Yorkers will no longer have to wince as their mayor abases himself before tiny "crowds" in New Hampshire and Iowa (though we will miss the awkward pictures of him and corndogs).

And (fingers crossed) those pathetic "We’re nearly there, send us $1 to help put us over the top" emails will stop, too.

Or maybe they won’t, since you have to expect de Blasio will rapidly turn his eye to some new side project that he’ll want cash for. His top goal, after all, is to maximize his income and his ambitions when term limits force him out at the end of 2021.

New York law doesn’t give him a golden parachute, so he’s determined to sew his own ‐ however many City Hall favors he has to sell to do it.

Ironically, Mayor Putz de Blasio dropped out the day after the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics announced new settlements with donors to his old Campaign for One New York nonprofit ‐ developers who got what they wanted from the city and in turn paid off the mayor’s pocket "charity," which funded his political ambitions.

When he shut down CONY in the course of dodging prosecution for his corrupt pay-to-play games, the mayor promised to stop taking money from groups or people with city business. Yet his now-done presidential campaign relied overwhelmingly on such donors ‐ particularly the Hotel Trades Council, which has won several City Hall favors.

But all that dirty money wasn’t enough to buy him success in the prez race. He dragged at below 1 percent in the polls, and proved unable to get even token $1 donations to meet the minimum needed to qualify for the Democratic debates.
Poliico: FEC finds fault with de Blasio's campaign finances
Now what? You know what he won’t do is pay any more attention to his day job than he absolutely has to ‐ after all, it was boredom with that work that left him chasing hopeless presidential dreams for months. Running the city will be left to his deputy mayors, agency heads and the permanent bureaucracy.

The only exception: whatever projects or people he can use as props to bolster his national progressive reputation ‐ that is, "ensuring that New York City remains the vanguard of progressivism," as he vowed in his NBC.com column on his withdrawal.

There’s a terrifying statement. What experiments will a bored and ambitious de Blasio foist upon us now?
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#2  He'll be back you can bet your grandmother's dentures on it. Billy knows he was born to be president and by god it's going to happen.
Posted by: jpal || 09/21/2019 17:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Dems Veto Red Flag Law for Gangbangers
[American Thinker] If Democrats were serious about using red flag laws to keep guns out if the hands of people who might use them to senselessly murder others and therefore are danger to society, and not just as a gun-control tool to disarm law-abiding citizens, then why did they kill an attempt to use compiled lists of known gang members, which many police departments and law enforcement agencies possess? Why did they kill a measure to red flag gang members? And if Beto O’Rourke is going to come and take our guns, particularly our AR-15s, is he going to start on the south side of Chicago?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/21/2019 04:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guns for Gangbangers. Ja ja!
Guns for law-abiding citizens.. Nein!
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/21/2019 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Darn. I would have expected this to be from the Babylon Bee.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/21/2019 7:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Donks need to obstruct stuff like this.
How can they have a government buy back program when the buyer has a long history of violence?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2019 7:57 Comments || Top||

#4  then why did they kill an attempt to use compiled lists of known gang members, which many police departments and law enforcement agencies possess?

I dunno, the left might want to contract their (gangbangers) services to take care of inconvenient political problems such as Seth R.?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/21/2019 9:40 Comments || Top||

#5  So they don't want to take away all guns, just those of the opposition.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/21/2019 11:07 Comments || Top||



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