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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Girl Who Was Touched by Creeper Joe Biden on Camera Confirms he Groped Her and Pinched Her Nipple
[TrendingPolitics] Back in 2015, Joe Biden went viral after he was video taped groping Senator Steve Daines’ niece on C-Span while meeting with his family for his swearing-in ceremony.

The girl, Maria Piacesi who was only eight years old at the time, was filmed standing in front of the Vice President Biden as he ran his hands up and down her upper body.

The way she reacted to it tells you all.



Six years later, Maria Piacesi is finally speaking out. Citizen journalist Jonathan Pasetti recently shared screenshots of a conversation he had with Maria Piacesi on social media app Tik Tok where she admits that President Joe Biden pinched her nipple. The teenager has since deleted her comments however the screenshots still exist.

"Did Joe Biden pinch you?" asked Pasetti asked on Tik Tok.

"Yes," confirmed Maria Piacesi.

Pinching a young child in their breast area is considered molestation. Joe Biden is a molester.
Posted by: Woodrow || 08/05/2021 05:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/05/2021 6:30 Comments || Top||


#3  "But that all been litigated."__ Little Red Lying Hood Psaki
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/05/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Creepy old men giving out candy and touching young girls is no basis for a system of government.
Posted by: Grailet Speang1824 || 08/05/2021 10:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Video fixed in the article. You didn’t do anything wrong, Woodrow — sometimes, for reasons unknown to me, the article just needs to be opened for editing by a moderator, then closed again without doing anything to it.

Skidmark, thank you for posting a usable version in comments to hold us until that was done.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/05/2021 12:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Little Red Lying Hood

I'm totally gonna borrow that.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/05/2021 12:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Thank you TW. I always screw those incerts up.
Posted by: Woodrow || 08/05/2021 21:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Joe learned these techniques from his old buddy Corn Pop, and he honed his skills at the pool where he was lifeguard...
Posted by: Phains Wittlesbach5853 || 08/05/2021 21:25 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka dead at 72, sources say
[Politico h/t Insty] Adios Pendejo! Say hi to Hoffa
Trumka had served as president of the federation for more than a decade and has been a close ally of the Biden White House.

He died of what was believed to be a heart attack, a source familiar with the matter said. It was unclear when exactly it occurred, though it's believed to be either Wednesday evening or Thursday morning.

A third-generation coal miner, Trumka spent his career in the labor movement, serving as president of the United Mine Workers of America and as a member of the AFL-CIO’s executive counsel, as well as on various federation committees before being elected AFL-CIO president in 2009.

It was unclear whether Trumka was going to run for another term as AFL-CIO president or retire ahead of the federation’s convention that was originally scheduled for this fall.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/05/2021 12:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  May he burn in hell.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 08/05/2021 15:32 Comments || Top||

#2  ..for selling out his working class membership
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/05/2021 15:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Good riddance
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/05/2021 17:10 Comments || Top||

#4  As someone pointed out in the comments at ZH, the union comes out way ahead. All those years paying dues and he wasn't retired, so no pension payout.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/05/2021 17:40 Comments || Top||

#5  He'll be forgotten in a few years like the rest of us. Him though, possibly much sooner.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/05/2021 18:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Word is, he died in labor
Posted by: Frank G || 08/05/2021 20:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Word is, he died in labor

Yeow! You're just lucky Ghost of Pappy isn't around
Posted by: SteveS || 08/05/2021 20:53 Comments || Top||

#8  "It was unclear whether Trumka was going to run for another term..." Stop it! You're making me laugh to hard!
Posted by: magpie || 08/05/2021 21:46 Comments || Top||

#9  May Trumka have a statue dedicated in his honor...
It would only be fitting...
perpetually communing with winged creatures in nature...
Posted by: Harry Pelosi9011 || 08/05/2021 22:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Off the pile, from today, oddly...

A shy little monochrome phoebe
Was she. Said he, "Kawai, habibi!"
Alighting, she sat,
Then adorably shat
On the head of Mohammed al-Chibi.
Posted by: Ulatle Splat5742 || 08/05/2021 23:56 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Secretary of Defense Austin to announce mandatory vaccine policy for all active duty military
[FOX] Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is expected Friday to announce a mandatory vaccine policy for all active-duty forces in the U.S. military.

The directive for all 1.3 million service members to get shots in their arms comes one day after President Biden urged all federal employees to get vaccinated.

Officials tell Fox News Austin will make his recommendation to the White House tomorrow, and the official announcement is expected Friday.

The decision comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a more than 64 percent spike in coronavirus cases nationwide over the last seven days.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...This will not end well.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/05/2021 4:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't there a federal law against forcing vaccines under EUA on active service military? Not that it matters to oligarchs like Austin or Biden.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 08/05/2021 8:43 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 Isn't there a federal law against forcing vaccines under EUA on active service military? Not that it matters to oligarchs like Austin or Biden. Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-08-05 08:43


Bubba,

There is most certainly such a law. What I think is going to happen is this: there have been hints for a few days now that at least one vaccine (IIRC the Pfizer) will be fully FDA certified by early next month. It's likely that whatever comes down from DOD will take that into account, which gives everybody about 30 days to get whatever vaccine they want, as long as they get one - but after that, they will have no legal reason to refuse. Troops can most certainly challenge it, and doubtless some will, but the DOD's response will be that there is a fully certified vaccine out there, and that's the one they're mandating.

God help us if the Pfizer vax suddenly starts exhibiting bad side effects at ANY point in the future.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/05/2021 9:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Apparently the law I referred to in the previous post has a major "gotcha". I copied this from an Instapundit post today:
Title 10 U.S. Code Sec. 1107(a) provides that the option to refuse an EUA product may be waived "if the President determines, in writing, that complying with such requirement is not in the interests of national security." Then pursuant to Dept. of Defense Instruction No. 6200.2 (issued 2/27/2008) the Secretary of Defense "may ask the President to grant a waiver of an option to refuse." Upon receipt of such request the President then may "waive the option to refuse for administration of the medical product to members of the armed forces."

This massive PDF has details.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 08/05/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Indeed, Pfizer is anticipating having FDA approval sometime in September. so do not expect the mandate to be taking effect until after approval is granted.
unfortunately, Pfizer is also the most difficult to transport and store, so this will lead to more issues in the supply chain. That difficulty makes one wonder if some of the Pfizer vaccination fails were because the vaccine was not stored and transported properly.
Posted by: Lemuel Gray4629 || 08/05/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||


Millions in federal money flowing to tissue bank that collects fetal 'heart, gonads, legs, brain': report
[FoxNews] The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has funneled at least $2.7 million into a University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) project that utilizes a tissue bank with organs from aborted fetuses, according to a release from Judicial Watch Tuesday.

The conservative nonprofit obtained hundreds of pages of public records requests, which detail Pitt's interest in harvesting fetal organs for a project known as the GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project, or GUDMAP. More money was requested by the university but it's unclear exactly how much it received.

Pitt's application specified that it sought to "develop a pipeline to the acquisition, quality control and distribution of human genitourinary [urinary and genital organs and functions] samples obtained throughout development (6-42 weeks gestation)." Forty-two weeks represents more than 10 months of pregnancy.

In 2015, Pitt told HHS that it has been "collecting fetal tissue for over 10 years … includ[ing] liver, heart, gonads, legs, brain, genitourinary tissues including kidneys, ureters and bladders."

It also revealed that the university sought a large number of minority fetuses, according to Judicial Watch — something Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden described as "racist."

The university told Fox News that the higher number of minorities resulted from an emphasis on those populations most impacted by kidney disease. "Projects funded by the National Institutes of Health must ensure appropriate inclusion of women and minorities," said David Seldin, assistant vice chancellor for news.

"They should also ensure distribution of the study reflects the population needed to accomplish the scientific goals of the study. Asked another way: Does the makeup of the study reflect the populations affected by the illness in question? In the case of the GUDMAP Tissue Hub, one of the goals is to support researchers looking for treatments and cures for kidney disease."

In a PureFlix interview last year, former university employee Lori Kelly discussed a federally funded project with researchers seeking to collect bladders and kidneys from babies as late as 24 weeks into pregnancy. Kelly said that as project manager, she worked to develop "a pull-down menu of baby body parts for researchers to choose from to submit to the tissue bank, so that we could send the body parts to them."

"And these researchers were all across the United States," she said, "from Florida to California." When asked, the University of Pittsburgh did not respond to Kelly's allegations earlier this year.

Both the university and its medical center have denied any wrongdoing.

Tuesday's revelation adds mounting scrutiny to a school that has already received attention for its use of fetal tissue.

"The University of Pittsburgh complies with rigorous regulatory and ethical oversight of fetal tissue research," Paul Supowitz, the university's vice chancellor, previously told lawmakers. "The researchers in this matter followed all applicable federal and state guidelines and regulations (with Pennsylvania having one of the most restrictive set of requirements in the nation), as well as strict protocols approved by the University. The University’s Institutional Review Board approved the acquisition of stem cells."

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has also maintained that it complies with federal law. It previously told Fox News: "NIH is committed to ensuring that research involving human fetal tissue is conducted responsibly and meets the

Earlier this year, Pennsylvania's state legislature held a hearing in which members discussed an experiment involving grafting fetal scalps, containing "full-thickness human skin," onto rodents.

That particular project utilized tissue from the university's human tissue bank. It was also supported by grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is led by top coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci. While it's unclear exactly how much federal money was spent on that project, it was funded through two large grants — one $1,498,642 and one $430,270.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Cravish Flomomp8461 || 08/05/2021 5:52 Comments || Top||


#3  This is all about research into how to make our elite ruling class immortal. There are also lots of tech oligarchs wanting to live forever and willing to spend big to see that goal accomplished - for themselves.

Vampires.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/05/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Nailed it !

Formal apologies to the late Dr. Josef Mengele surely must be forthcoming.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/05/2021 7:54 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/05/2021 8:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Pedophiles, cannibals & vampires are now our "top men".
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 08/05/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Fecking ghouls
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 08/05/2021 18:37 Comments || Top||

#8  They are attempting to find eternal life through science and knowledge of man. How interesting, and tragic.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/05/2021 18:45 Comments || Top||


So Apparently Some Of Twit's "fact-Checkers" Collect Government Paychecks
[G'WayPundit] Previously we reported on Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai was able to uncover Twitter’s "partner support portal."

Dr. Shiva discovered that Twitter built a special portal offered to certain governmental entities so that government officials can flag and delete content they dislike for any reason, as part of what they call their "Twitter Partner Status."
I haven't linked to Twit in over a year; what about you.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Never!!!
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 08/05/2021 6:17 Comments || Top||

#2  why not, cut out the middle man. government actually being efficient at something
Posted by: Retard Strength || 08/05/2021 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Govt makes a lot of legitimate use of twitter.

For example, tornado alerts.

Of course there is a lot of misuse also.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/05/2021 17:32 Comments || Top||


DHS Mayorkas Blames Trump for Biden's Record 2021 Migration Wave
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, he was - if he hadn't forced them to the limit of their cheating ability they wouldn't have had to import more future voters...
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/05/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Wait? Just a couple months ago they asserted that there was no crisis. If there was no crisis a couple months ago, when did Trump re-assume the presidency?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/05/2021 15:51 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'I don't want to hear a blip about COVID from you': Gov. DeSantis rages at Biden for criticizing Florida's pandemic response and demands HE secure the border and stop 'importing' the virus
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apparently DeSantis has a spine.
Posted by: Spoter B || 08/05/2021 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  yep
Posted by: Chris || 08/05/2021 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Actual, righteous rage. Refreshing.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/05/2021 2:30 Comments || Top||

#4  As I commented in a thread the other day, the contradictions are snowballing. The dems can't stop what they have started now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/05/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Elmailet Clonter4487 || 08/05/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Gov. DeSantis has a great point. The current regime abuses American citizens while giving carte blanche to illegals.

Effects:

1. Overwhelming resources and a collapse of the U.S. economy.
2. Increasing the Dem voter base.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/05/2021 9:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Florida leads the nation's most recent spike in cases with 11,515 hospitalized in one day on Tuesday - a new record

The previous two days, FLA reported zero cases. I suspect no reporting on Sat & Sun, so the number reported by the media was actually the sum of three days.

Meanwhile, Florida is #26 in deaths per million. Texas is #25.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/05/2021 11:07 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Two of the Texas Democrats Leave D.C. to Vacation in Portugal
[Our Community] Two Democrat Texas state representatives still haven’t returned after fleeing the state to break legislative quorum for a vote on a Republican-backed election bill. Now, the two lawmakers are reportedly taking a vacation in Portugal, a new report says.

The Texas House Democratic Caucus on Tuesday could not account for State Reps. Julie Johnson (D-Farmers Branch) and Jessica González (D-Dallas), the Texas Tribune reported Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Texas Monthly reporter Jonathan Tilove tweeted, "Hi. Covering the TXDEMS in DC for @TexasMonthly. Can confirm @juliejohnsonTX and her wife & @jessicafortexas and her fiancé are in Portugal for a vacation they had been planning, with non-refundable tickets, for a year-and-a-half. Still participating in caucus meetings via ZOOM."

Hi. Covering the TXDEMS in DC for @TexasMonthly . Can confirm @juliejohnsonTX and her wife & @jessicafortexas and her fiancé are in Portugal for a vacation they had been planning, with non-refundable tickets, for a year-and-a-half. Still participating in caucus meetings via ZOOM.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/05/2021 06:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Planned in advance, eh? I think they should receive the same consideration Ted Cruz did a few months ago, flying off to Mexico with his family - shortly after the "Big Freeze'!!! The nerve!!!
Posted by: Bobby || 08/05/2021 10:56 Comments || Top||

#2  two lawmakers are reportedly taking a vacation in Portugal

Hope they've had their shots.

More municipalities under stricter lockdown rules
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/05/2021 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Pretty sure State Rep. Julie Johnson (D-Farmers Branch) is the front Sow in this photo:
Posted by: Frank G || 08/05/2021 11:28 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't think mama could even love that face
Posted by: Chris || 08/05/2021 15:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Comes off like a Mama Cass look-alike contest.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/05/2021 19:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah, bet you its a pan transgender lez-b-an dominatrix in the foreground, who moon-lights as a Texas Dem legislator during the weekdays & a RHINO sadomasochist on the weekends.
Posted by: Spegum Snore4018 || 08/05/2021 20:22 Comments || Top||


Austin Star Police Detective Accuses DA Jose Garza's Office of Criminal Witness Tampering in High-Profile Case
[PJ Media] Austin Police Department homicide Detective David Fugitt is a well-regarded veteran with APD and has worked more than 50 cases across about 18 years, solving all but about four of them. APD tends to place its most difficult cases under Fugitt due to his sterling record. Most recently, Fugitt has been the lead detective on the case of a shooting that happened in downtown Austin, Texas, in the summer of 2020.

On the night of July 25, 2020, a group of protesters illegally took over an intersection in downtown Austin. They approached a car as it was trying to make its way past the crowd through the intersection. One of the protesters, Garrett Foster, was carrying a loaded AK-47 rifle. As Foster approached the car in the darkness that night, apparently pointing the rifle at the driver, the driver, Army Sgt. Daniel Perry, fired his handgun in Foster’s direction from his car. Foster was killed.

Jose Garza was elected Travis County district attorney in the 2020 elections on a platform of prosecuting police officers. After coming into office, he reviewed Perry’s case and indicted him on a murder charge. The indictment came as a surprise, given the known facts of the case and Texas castle law.

Now, the lead detective in the Perry case is accusing District Attorney Garza of witness tampering in order to obtain the indictment. That detective is David Fugitt, the veteran APD officer known for solving so many cases. He has filed an affidavit in the case that clearly and unequivocally points the finger at Garza.

In the affidavit, which PJ Media has obtained, Detective Fugitt says:
Posted by: Spilet Slens1190 || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So presumably Garza's next step will be to file some kind of charges against Fugitt, and calling for the release of all those convicted using his testimony. That's the next play in the playbook, right?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/05/2021 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  ..and a motion to a new venue for the accused in the case.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/05/2021 15:44 Comments || Top||



Memo to Eric Adams: If elected mayor, ditch homeless czar Steven Banks
[NYPOST] Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
has floated the unsavory idea that should he win come November, he’ll likely keep some of Mayor Comrade 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. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
’s City Hall picks in place — including homeless czar Steven Banks, who he said has done "amazing things."

God help us. As head of the Department of Homeless Services, Banks has been a disaster. His budget has ballooned by the billions, with little to show for it except an ever-more-prominent street homeless population.

Oh, and a long series of scandals involving corrupt nonprofit shelter providers and terrible shelter conditions. An April survey of street homeless found that 77 percent had stayed in the shelter system at one point but won’t go back, citing safety reasons as well as city social workers’ overall incompetence.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's gun out of his hand......
the shelter population has soared, even as Banks has muscled new shelters into communities where they’re just not appropriate.

Banks’ biggest and most fundamental problem, however, is his refusal to take a tough-love approach. At all.

He spent his legal career fighting for homeless "rights" to occupy public spaces. In government, he’s refused to push for behavioral change; the pretense is that the only thing that makes someone homeless is a lack of housing.

If Banks were to stay on, New York City’s homeless horrors would only grow worse — bad as they already are. That will take a severe toll on the city. And on a Mayor Adams’ record.
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Want fewer people living on the streets? Cancel all the programs intended to "help" them -- make the leeches running those programs find productive work.

BTW -- do some digging; Cuomo cronies and relatives have high-paying jobs with lots of those "homeless charities", and those "charities" funnel cash into the Democrat party. It's a big money laundering and payoff scheme; it's not intended to help anyone.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/05/2021 18:48 Comments || Top||


Andrew Cuomo's eldercide was worse
[NYPOST] Although Gov. Cuomo’s "sexual misconduct and egregious mishandling of COVID-19 are both heinous," it shouldn’t be "controversial to assert killing the elderly through incompetence" is more "depraved," writes Robert Schmad at the Washington Examiner. Yet the media are "flipping the moral weight of the two wrongs." New calls for Cuomo’s resignation after the state attorney general’s report barely mention his nursing-home scandals. Still, at least he is facing "some kind of reckoning."

FROM THE LEFT: CHRIS CUOMO MUST GO, TOO
New York AG Letitia James released "a bombshell report Tuesday detailing multiple instances of sexual harassment" by Gov. Cuomo, yet, observes MSNBC columnist Laura Bassett, James also notes that "CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
anchor Chris Cuomo, the governor’s brother, was part of a small team of advisers who helped him respond to the allegations." Chris even went "so far as to draft a statement" for Andrew in February. The governor "should resign immediately or be impeached," but his brother, too, "should resign from covering politics or be fired." After all, "it’s extremely inappropriate and unethical for a journalist to advise and craft the statements of a politician, regardless of family relation." The two men have both "amassed massive power and influence, while betraying public trust." Both "must go."

Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That assumes reality still maters. It don't.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/05/2021 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Mighta been worse, but better to be sent up for being a sexist pig than for farking up a COVID response.

(sarc/OFF)

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/05/2021 4:27 Comments || Top||

#3  And they got Capone on income tax evasion. What ever works.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/05/2021 6:52 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Shons Angoluck7035 || 08/05/2021 8:15 Comments || Top||

#5  A full, honest investigation of the nursing home scandal might reveal things that the Dems do not want revealed. The suspicion is that it's so bad they are willing to throw one of their stars under the bus so they can sweep the bigger scandal under the rug while nobody's looking.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/05/2021 12:36 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm thinking Cuomo better have damn good security if he continues with his refusal to take the fall. Biden might look like a doddering old fool but he and his handlers are not playing tiddlywinks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/05/2021 12:42 Comments || Top||

#7  I recently read speculation that the Democratic Establishment is going after Governor Cuomo to keep him from running for president in 2024. Does that sound realistic?
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/05/2021 13:11 Comments || Top||

#8  BREAKING: NY Assembly gives Cuomo deadline to submit evidence against impeachment and removal

Maybe the kabuki is over?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/05/2021 13:13 Comments || Top||


DAs close in on Gov. Cuomo, launch criminal probes in Manhattan, Westchester
[NYPOST] Prosecutors in New York City, as well as Westchester and Nassau counties, said Wednesday they have launched separate criminal investigations into sexual harassment allegations made against Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo
...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out....
based on the findings in a report released by state Attorney General Letitia James.

The probes will apparently target Cuomo’s behavior at locations including his satellite office in Manhattan, his former home in Mount Kisco, where he lived with his then-girlfriend, celebrity chef Sandra Lee, and the site of the new Belmont Park Arena on Long Island.

A front man for outgoing Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said, "When our office learned yesterday that the Attorney General’s investigation of the Governor’s conduct was complete, our office contacted the Attorney General’s Office to begin requesting investigative materials in their possession pertaining to incidents that occurred in Manhattan."

Westchester DA Mimi Rocah also issued a statement saying, "As some of the Governor’s conduct described in the report occurred in Westchester County, we have formally requested investigative materials obtained by the AG’s Office."

Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  BFD - they can do whatever they want; he cannot be removed from office until he's impeached, and that ain't happening, because he's a Democrat with a face that just might replace this one.
Posted by: Raj || 08/05/2021 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Is AG James going to run for his office?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/05/2021 2:31 Comments || Top||



#5  Kabuki theater is very popular with the Donks.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/05/2021 7:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Cum-oh is a literal megalomaniac. After all the talk about Trump might have to be dynamited out of the White House by Marines, look for Cum-oh to make a scene that won't soon be forgotten if he is actually ousted from Albany. Think Budd Dwyer type scene.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/05/2021 7:52 Comments || Top||

#7  They're prepping the field for De Blasio.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 08/05/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||


#9  #7 - if they're that stoopid, they deserve the consequences. I suspect AG "Tish" James is running since last week. Probably no better than CumHo
Posted by: Frank G || 08/05/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#10  I will believe it when it happens
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 08/05/2021 15:35 Comments || Top||

#11  I don't get it. Cuomo was a Dem golden boy since forever. None of this stuff is new, so why are they making a run at him now? And to what end?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/05/2021 17:40 Comments || Top||

#12  Ask the ancient Roman question: Cui Bono?
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 08/05/2021 18:42 Comments || Top||


Biden ATF nominee Chipman failed to disclose Chinese state TV hit used as propaganda by the communist state
[FoxNews] President Biden's nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) failed to disclose to the Senate a media appearance on Chinese state TV, which may have been used as propaganda by the communist state to cover up a mass stabbing of children.

Biden's ATF nominee David Chipman appeared on a Chinese state-run media network, China Global Television Network (CGTN), previously known as CCTN, in December 2012 to discuss the government's response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, one of the deadliest shootings in U.S. history that killed 28 people and injured two.

CGTN, which reaches 30 million households within the U.S., "is an arm of China’s propaganda machine. It is controlled by the Communist Party and serves as part of what Mr. Xi has called Beijing’s ‘publicity front.’" as described by the New York Times. In 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) required CGTN to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA.

According to DOJ, in order to protect the U.S. from covert foreign influence, FARA "requires certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute" to disclose periodic updates to the department.
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Home Front: Politix
Senator Introduces Legislation To Mandate Voter ID For States That Mandate Vaccine Passports
Playing hardball.
[ZH] After New York City announced that it will mandate vaccine passports for entry to events and even restaurants and gyms, a Republican Senator has introduced a bill that would make it mandatory for any state using a vaccine pass system to also use a voter ID system.
Dems are about to destroy one of the cornerstones of their long-term plan to cheat in every election.
Curiously though, anyone can still vote there without showing ID, a double standard exposed by Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, who has introduced a bill to mandate voter ID.

"If states that take federal money for elections feel the need to make residents verify a piece of information as private as their vaccination status just to return to normalcy, then they should have no problem requiring people to prove they are who they say they are when they go to vote," Cramer said in a statement.

Cramer added that the measure "would ensure that those states are consistent in their identification requirements and shine a light on those who hypocritically oppose voter ID laws but support vaccine passports."

When asked about the vaccine passport mandate in New York, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki expressed support, dismissing Peter Doocy’s point that many Americans are waiting for the FDA to fully approve vaccines or simply do not want the vaccine for religious or medical reasons.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rather see a bill prohibiting "passport".
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/05/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||


Trump gloats after newcomer and coal lobbyist Mike Carey wins crowded GOP 12-man primary in Ohio
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Donald Trump's candidate won in Ohio's 15th congressional district

  • Coal lobbyist Mike Carey beat 11 other candidates for GOP nomination

  • Carey was a little known contender until he earned Trump's endorsement

  • Other Republicans in that race had big name GOP backers

  • In Ohio's 11th Congressional district, Democrats went war

  • Shontel Brown, backed by Hillary Clinton and Rep. Jim Clyburn, beat a progressive favorite to win a crowded Dem primary in an Ohio House race

  • Nina Turner was liberal favorite of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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House Dem calls for course correction or GOP could win 2022 majority
[NYPOST] The House Democrat in charge of making sure the party retains control of the chamber after next year’s midterm elections is warning that a course correction is needed or they could find themselves the minority again — with current polling showing the Democrats would lose the majority if elections were held now.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told a closed-door lunch last week that if the midterms were held now, Republicans would win control of the House, Politico reported Tuesday.

Maloney (D-NY) advised the gathering that Democrats have to embrace and promote President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.......
’s agenda because it registers with swing voters.

"We are not afraid of this data ... We’re not trying to hide this," Tim Persico, executive director of the Maloney-chaired DCC, ​told Politico in an interview.

"If [Democrats] use it, we’re going to hold the House. That’s what this data tells us, but we gotta get in action," ​Persico said.

M​aloney, in an interview with NPR, said ​issues like climate change, infrastructure, the expanded child tax credits, immigration policies and election reforms will attract voters next fall.

"We’re making a bet on substance," Maloney said. "What’s the old saying — any jackass can kick down a barn, it takes a carpenter to build one. It’s harder to build it than to kick it down. And so we’re the party that’s going to build the future."

Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maloney (D-NY) advised the gathering that Democrats have to embrace and promote President Joe Biden’s agenda because it registers with swing voters.

You keep telling yourselves whatever convinces you of that; my god, shades of the Stupid Party.
Posted by: Raj || 08/05/2021 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  That and lockdowns and mail-in voting counted by Dominion.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/05/2021 1:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Doesn't seem to dawn on the NPCs that if at least a handful were interested in keeping their office, to jump the reservation and form the Liberal Party. Given the paper thin majority that Nancy has, they could set themselves up like those little parties in Israel who can exploit their situation to protect their future employment with the electorate back home.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/05/2021 6:58 Comments || Top||

#4  election fraud will make things work out
Posted by: 746 || 08/05/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||

#5  IF the FAA doesn't let SpaceX test launch their rocket for "environmental" reasons... expect the Electric car and pro-space kids (mainly on the left) to desert the Communist er.. Democratic Party too.
Posted by: 3dc || 08/05/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6  GOPe brain trust is doing late nighters now to make sure they fail again.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/05/2021 10:51 Comments || Top||


Psaki says claims against Biden have been 'litigated' when pressed on probe
[NYPOST] White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
on Wednesday said that sexual harassment allegations against President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family......
have been "heavily litigated" when pressed on whether Biden’s accusers deserve an independent investigation as was afforded to women who accused Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo
...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out....
of harassment.

Biden has been accused of skinny-dipping in front of female Secret Service agents and his former Senate aide Tara Reade accused him of a 1993 sexual assault, The Post noted to Psaki at her daily press briefing. Many women went to the New York Times

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

and Washington Post during the 2020 campaign to say Biden’s unwanted touching upset them.

"Well first I would say, the president has been clear and outspoken about the importance of women being respected and having their voices heard and being allowed to tell their stories and people treating them with respect. That has long been his policy, continues to be his policy," Psaki said.

She added: "That was heavily litigated during the campaign. I understand you’re eager to come back to it, but I don’t have anything further other than to repeat that he has called for the governor to resign."
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sure we'll get to see the litigation papers about the same time the Senate committee in Arizona gets the voting machines.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/05/2021 6:59 Comments || Top||


#3  What does it matter...nothing has been 'real' about Biden since day one.
Posted by: Spegum Snore4018 || 08/05/2021 20:34 Comments || Top||

#4  What sort of gobbledygook is "heavily litigated"? Classic bafflegab.
Posted by: magpie || 08/05/2021 20:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Someone else called her: Little Red Lying Hood. good fit.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/05/2021 22:58 Comments || Top||


Sen. Hawley: Public schools must shape kids who love America and our founding
[NYPOST] Parents know something is wrong. It’s why they are showing up in droves at school-board meetings across the nation. They are sending a message. They don’t want their children taught that the true founding of America came in 1619, or that America is a systemically racist place, or that most Americans are ­oppressors. They don’t want their children taught lies. And they are right. Sometimes, these lies go by the name "Critical Race Theory

...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense...
," a pet project of the left that ­began, as many bad ideas do, in the academy and has spread in recent years across corporate America and into school curricula. Sometimes the lies are called "anti-racism."

Whatever the label, the central principles are the same. These doctrines teach that American society is structurally oppressive, that our culture is shot through with racism and other forms of bigotry, and that most Americans are complicit in racial oppression, knowingly or not.

The radical claims of critical race theory have become an ­article of faith for many on the left, but they bear little resemblance to our actual history.

Let’s be clear. This isn’t a ­nation of oppressors. This is a nation of liberators. This is the country founded on the worth and dignity of every individual. This is the country that gave working people the right to vote. This is the country that freed the slaves. This is the ­nation that has brought more good to the planet than any other people in history.

And it is time we defend that being taught in school. Critical race theory in any guise is a toxin. It poisons the bloodstream of our national life and drives Americans further apart. Sometimes, it seems that this is just what its advocates want: ­division, anger, hatred. But that isn’t what America needs. America needs the truth, ­because it’s the truth about our history and our purpose that unites us as a nation.



Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In the old days it was call 'civics' not communism 101. Got to kill time with something when you can't get them to actually attain competence in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/05/2021 7:01 Comments || Top||



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