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Electric chair routinely used on staff discovered in Amy Klobuchar's senate office
[GenesiusTkmes] It’s a rather poorly kept secret that Senator Amy Klobuchar has been downright abusive to her staff for years. Her constant berating, temper tantrums, outrageous demands, and demeaning put-downs are legion. The Minnesota nice moniker that her campaign has put forth is exactly the opposite of her abusive nature and has been replaced by Minneapolis Maniac and The St. Paul Satan.

Initial reports found that when staff had failed to bring her coffee in the morning she would first berate them and when alone with them on the road would push them out the car door as they were speeding along. A few staffers complained about this but most were killed instantly so not much came of this.

The Electric Chair was only discovered because when in use, the Eastern Seaboard would go dark. In addition, the burn units in local hospitals were so full that many beds had to be placed inside the frozen vegetable sections of local Piggly Wiggly's. Luckily for Amy, all the staffers from the Biden, Warren, and Buttigieg campaigns have jumped ship and joined the Klobuchar campaign. Unfortunately, Bloomberg has offered those staffers $100,000,000 each to join his campaign forcing Amy to drive to Home Depot every morning to obtain fresh faces as some staffers leaving her office no longer had theirs.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If one were forced to go home to that every night, there would only be one alternative.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/07/2020 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  harridan, noun - See entry Amy Klobuchar
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/07/2020 14:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Never did understand why she ran. A singular side-mouth-talking uninspired unpleasant Senator. Eating a salad with a comb?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/07/2020 16:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Opinion: If Americans Aren't Sexist, Then How Come They Refuse To Elect The Most Unlikable Women On The Planet?
[Babylon Bee] The Elizabeth Warren campaign has ended, her ambition to be the first woman president done in by the same thing that sunk Hillary Clinton: sexism. Many claim America isn't sexist, but then how come they refuse to vote for the most unlikable women on the planet?

Yes, people often say they're willing to vote for a woman. But if they won't cast a vote for some of the most unlikable women on the entire planet, will they really vote for any women ever?

Many have claimed they want someone who is a woman, qualified, honest, and likable, but when they're given a choice of someone who is one out of four, we see that sexism still rules, as they vote for a man instead. "I just want someone who doesn't make my skin crawl when I think of her," they say, placing, once again, impossible standards on the most horrible women in human society.
*snort*
In 2016, people had Hillary Clinton, someone so politically maladroit she barely seemed human, one of the most blatantly dishonest people anyone had ever seen, and someone people only ever heard of because of who her husband is. But she was a woman. And that just wasn't good enough. And now we had Elizabeth Warren, an off-putting, nakedly political hack who lied about her heritage and has a bunch of unworkable plans with price tags beyond human comprehension. Though she may only be 1/1024th Native American, she is 99.9% woman. Still, people said they wanted more. Like anything more.

No.

Instead, we must continue to elevate the most terrible women in this country until people finally elect one and prove they don't hate women. This country can never, ever give in to sexism and put forward a female candidate people might actually like. Then the misogynists will win.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/07/2020 09:05 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They're holding out for a trans-woman?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/07/2020 14:14 Comments || Top||


The Democratic Party Is Wounded and Dangerous
[American Thinker] - Beware the wounded animal. In pain and desperation, it will do violent things. It seems to me no coincidence that Joe Biden's big win on Super Tuesday was followed by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer threatening conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Joe Biden is hardly Lancelot to President Trump's dragon. The Democrats and the Deep State needed a first-class warrior; instead, their best option is a walking advertisement for Alzheimer's awareness. In his best days, Joe Biden was the political equivalent of Jack McCall, shooting his adversaries in the back. When he wasn't using his position of power for financial gain or stealing other people's words, he was helping his family line their own pockets. Today, he's a disoriented and stumbling shell of an unimportant political hack who looks on in confusion while his wife does his fighting for him.

...I'm not saying President Trump's re-election is in the bag. Far from it. We've never seen such an array of villains acting in concert to take down an American president. The Democratic Party has most of the permanent bureaucratic Deep State (as well as stealthy anti-Trump Republicans), Wall Street, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, cosmopolitan Europe, global warming doomsayers, the Middle East's worst terrorists, and domestic Antifa terrorists here at home all actively working to dislodge President Trump from the White House. In the past, the chiefs of our intelligence agencies and clandestine services retired into relative obscurity, cognizant that duty commanded their silent withdrawal into the pages of history. After orchestrating a coup against the American president, however, it is not unusual to see the former heads of Obama's CIA, FBI, and NSC all tirelessly justifying their criminal acts on cable news each night. The corporate news media and institutional government have spent years trying to gin up enough hysteria in the nation that mock beheadings of the president and ritual re-enactments of his assassination during summer theater might lead the American people to clamor for the real thing.

...So, no, the 2020 election will not be over until all the votes have been counted on November 3, and it becomes clear that we have successfully preserved Western civilization for at least a little while longer from this most recent manifestation of Vienna's bloody 1683 siege. All I am saying is that Joe Biden was never meant to be the establishment's champion for resurrecting their oligarchic power. They wanted a formidable presidential nominee, someone who could check all the right identity politics boxes while stringing words together that were substantively meaningless while singularly inspiring. Instead, they're settling for a politician past his expiration date who sounds less crème de la crème and more soused in crème de menthe. The Democratic Party may depend on dead voters to win elections, but running dead candidates is another thing altogether.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/07/2020 02:41 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ooooops.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/07/2020 2:46 Comments || Top||

#2  They wanted a formidable presidential nominee, someone who could check all the right identity politics boxes while stringing words together that were substantively meaningless while singularly inspiring.

That was El Bozo, they got what they wanted but couldn't consolidate it by coronating the Hilda-Beast.

To me this just shows how close we came to disaster and how fragile our republic is.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/07/2020 7:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Moved
Posted by: Frank G || 03/07/2020 7:42 Comments || Top||

#4  ..So, no, the 2020 election will not be over until all the votes have been counted on November 3,


He's an optimist.

Remember 2000?
Posted by: charger || 03/07/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Gracias
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/07/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Joe Biden was never meant to be the establishment's champion
And I don't believe he will be - I expect him to win the nomination (clearly lots of levers are being pulled to make that happen), but I think he will be replaced at the last minute by the Dem powers when he steps aside because he is 'sick.' His replacement? Best guess is Hillary - she would have won last time if she had not had to campaign, so this plan would let her run without campaigning.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/07/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 Yes, outcomes are all that matter to the Dems, not any rules or norms.
Posted by: charger || 03/07/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Ohhhh, I feel like the crying will be more than double when she loses again.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/07/2020 11:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Yup, Biden is going to step aside at at "brokered convention" and it will be either Bloomberg or Hillary. Or Bloomberg/Hillary.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 03/07/2020 11:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Perhaps Bloomburg/Biden or Hillary/Biden. Biden would be satisfied with the VP position where he has enough power to sniff and grope little girls and women freely, but not have to actually be responsible for anything.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/07/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#11  It's a gang of crooks and grifters and it's beginning to show. Clinton and Obama were crooks but they were charismatic crooks. That kind of charisma combined with the brains and stamina to run a presidential campaign is a rare commodity. Joe has none of it and Hillary has all the charisma of a rattlesnake. The only one in the bunch who has it is Bernie. He's honest too. He'll tell you straight up that he's gonna rip you off.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/07/2020 12:53 Comments || Top||


D'Souza: The Clinical Nut (Biden) vs. the Ideological Nut (Sanders)
[Red State] Dinesh D’Souza is an Indian-born author and documentary filmmaker. He wrote one of my favorite political books, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, which details how the fascist ideology of the modern Left (including the Democrat Party) was lifted from the Nazis (and vice versa). You will also learn a great deal from watching his documentaries, too, as they are first-rate:

  • America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)
  • Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)
  • Death of a Nation (2018)

    He is an unabashed pro-American conservative who loves and supports his adopted country. He was targeted during the Obama regime for his political conservatism for making an illegal political contribution of $20,000 to a friend, to which he plead guilty and was sentenced to five years’ probation, eight months in a halfway house, and a $30,000 fine. Contrast his case to that of the Obama campaign, which was fined $375,000 for $1.8 million in campaign finance violations in 2013 (five years after the violations in 2008, and of course, AFTER the 2012 election). However, no one connected with the Obama campaign was held personally responsible. Compare and contrast the two outcomes!

    Fortunately, in concert with his ongoing concerns about the unfairness of the criminal justice system, as evinced by recent pardons and sentence commutations of people like Rod Blagojevich and Alice Marie Johnson, President Trump granted D’Souza a full pardon in 2018.

    That’s great, and D’Souza is now back in the political fray in support of President Trump, constitutional conservatives and the US Constitution, with regular appearances on Fox News and a new book in the offing. This week, he was interviewed by Laura Ingraham and made a very interesting contrast between the Democrat septuagenarians who are vying for the Democrat presidential nomination. Here is some of the Q&A:
  • Posted by: Besoeker || 03/07/2020 02:22 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


    Joe Biden: Not a Socialist, Just a Scoundrel
    [NATIONALREVIEW] Poor Bernie Sanders
    ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
    ! The youth vote failed to show up for him. The youth vote always fails to show up ‐ it will break your heart every time. Senator Sanders didn’t lose to Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
    ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
    ‐ he lost to Tinder, weed, and The Resident. The kids were doing themselves a favor ‐ young people have more of a future for Senator Sanders and his coterie of socialist dingbat malefactors to ruin.
    Continued on Page 49
    Posted by: || 03/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Williamson: knew it.
    Poor man's Schlichter, with less adrenaline (and wit).
    Posted by: Lex || 03/07/2020 0:51 Comments || Top||

    #2  Excoriating. I hope this guy passes over me ...
    Posted by: Beau || 03/07/2020 2:11 Comments || Top||

    #3  In another year or so, Joe won't be able to order lunch without assistance.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/07/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

    #4  It won't be long before his VP takes over.
    Posted by: gorb || 03/07/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

    #5  Is scoundrel a synonym for crook?
    Posted by: JohnQC || 03/07/2020 13:01 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Culture Wars
    MOLLIE H: Media are Lying Again-- Pretending Schumer's Mafioso Threats No Different From Kavanaugh's Pleas Not to Harm The Nation
    [TheFederalist]
    Posted by: Lex || 03/07/2020 12:36 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:



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