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-Great Cultural Revolution
Women Need Abortions To Fight Inflation, Dem Rep Says
[Free Beacon] Rep. Katie Porter (D., Calif.) on Wednesday said the record inflation under the Biden administration proves that women need abortion rights, because people "need to be in charge of how many mouths they're going to have to feed."

When asked by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell to compare how inflation and abortion shape the midterm elections, Porter said, "I don't think they compare, I think they actually reinforce each other."

"The fact that things like inflation can happen, and it becomes more expensive to feed your kids and to fuel your car is exactly why people need to be in charge of how many mouths they're going to have to feed," Porter said. "The fact that we're seeing this jump in expenses, that we're seeing people having to pay more in the grocery store, pay more at the pump, pay more for housing, is a reason that people are saying, ’I need to be able to make my own decisions about when and if to start a family.'"

A Wednesday Politico report revealed many Democratic lawmakers have sought to emphasize the abortion issue ahead of the midterm elections while they have struggled to address inflation, a vulnerability for the Biden administration and Democrats.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/13/2022 01:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  i'm not the smartest person that visits this site, but these people are absolutely fucking stupid.
Posted by: Chris || 05/13/2022 9:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Also in California, Newsom is already making political hay from the SCOTUS leak about Roe v Wade. An ad that aired last night criticized his rival in the 2022 gubernatorial race, Brian Dahle, for an anti-abortion stance while promising that Newsom will always support a woman's right to choose(to murder her baby).

When was that leak? Less than a week ago, wasn't it? Amazing how fast Newsom moved to capitalize on it. Almost as if he was all ready and waiting for it. That couldn't be, could it? Could it?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/13/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ This. 2020's base-rallyer was COVID-panic. 2022's is abortion.

The leaker is a left-wing law clerk (or a left-winger in the IT department that manages SCOTUS files and data).

Newsom waved the germy COVID mask last year to beat his recall challenge. He'll wave the bloody abortion hanger this year to win re-election. The man is spineless and evil but he's not stupid.
Posted by: Albemarle Ulease2342 || 05/13/2022 12:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Newsom is against the death penalty, yet he's all for killing babies without a fair trail?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 05/13/2022 20:25 Comments || Top||

#5  The only parental decision the leftists support is the aborting of their child.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/13/2022 22:17 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Judge orders Steele dossier firm Fusion GPS to turn over 22 emails to John Durham
[NYPOST] Special counsel John Durham scored a victory Thursday when a federal judge ordered the research firm behind the infamous "Steele dossier" to turn over nearly two dozen emails tied to its work with Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann.
Fusion GPS improperly withheld the 22 emails from Durham by claiming they were protected by attorney-client privilege and "work-product" privilege, Washington, DC, federal Judge Christopher Cooper ruled.

The move came at the request of Clinton’s 2016 campaign, according to the 11-page decision.

But the emails, which largely consist of internal communications between Fusion employees, aren’t protected from disclosure because they "appear not to have been written in anticipation of litigation but rather as part of ordinary media-relations work," Cooper said.

"It is clear that Fusion employees also interacted with the press as part of an affirmative media relations effort by the Clinton Campaign," he wrote.


Posted by: Fred || 05/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Unless of Durham can tie the Seth Rich Murder to this conspiracy. Isn't the statute of limitations by now up for the criminal activities done during the 2015-2016 election?

Maybe Adam $hit's name could be added. Given his extreme congressional LYING efforts.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/13/2022 17:36 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
More than 80 former Chuck Schumer staffers employed by Big Tech
[NYPOST] Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 46.43335 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
’s extensive ties to Big Tech firms have raised the specter that the powerful Democrat has put the brakes on much-sought antitrust legislation being pushed by his own party.

More than 80 former paid staffers of the longtime New York politician have leveraged their time with Schumer to secure prestigious jobs, working directly with companies including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple, according to data compiled for The Post.

The information was collected from publicly available filings of congressional staffers on LegiStorm — an online repository of data about congressional staffers and their compensation.

The analysis reviewed approximately 600 former paid Schumer staffers over the last 20 years and cross-referenced their employment history with other publicly available information — including lobbying registration, LinkedIn profiles and company websites — to determine their Big Tech ties.

The data comes as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in January to move The U.S. Internet Innovation and Choice Act and the Open Marketplace Apps Act forward — but await Schumer’s green light for a full Senate vote.
Posted by: Fred || 05/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So Schumer runs a personnel placement agency on the side.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/13/2022 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  or placing party agents.
Posted by: 3dc || 05/13/2022 5:09 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Yes, agents. 'Combined Federal Democratic Campaign' representatives.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/13/2022 6:43 Comments || Top||

#4  'Former' ? These people all seem to be paid from shell companies...
Posted by: magpie || 05/13/2022 17:11 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Florida press hides black Democrat's gay sex scandal
[DonSurber] Florida Politics broke a big story on Monday: a rising star in the Democrat Party faced accusations of groping and harassing an official at Florida A&M University. The rising star -- Ramon Alexander -- and the accuser -- Michael Johnson Jr. -- are both male. Alexander is married to Taniyah Alexander, a woman. They have two kids.

Alexander said the sex was consensual.

The man is next in line to be the Democrats' next leader in the House.

While it broke the story, Florida Politics asked others to go easy on Alexander. A confederacy of dunces followed and the rest of the media in Florida largely ignored the story.

The Tallahassee Democrat, the only newspaper to report on it, hid its story behind its subscribers only paywall.

'Tis a curious development.

One other outlet that did pick up on the story was The Advocate.

The Advocate reported, "According to Johnson, Alexander threatened his job over the treatment of Alexander’s brother-in-law, track coach Skye Dawson. While Alexander does not work at FAMU and Johnson has never worked for him, Johnson said Alexander threatened to use political relationships to have him terminated.

"A written complaint filed by Johnson states he was 'exposed to sexually offensive videos by someone affiliated with the defendant university, subjecting him to sexual harassment in the workplace.' Johnson told the Democrat that someone was Alexander.

"The state representative provided the newspaper with a statement confirming an adult consensual relationship with Johnson and publicly apologizing to his family."

Alexander said, "I am willing to acknowledge that I had a consensual, adult relationship with Mr. Johnson, but at no point was I ever his employer, an employee of FAMU, or involved in FAMU personnel decisions."

The state representative is an alumnus of FAMU and it is in his district.

The statewide media blackout of the sex scandal rebukes Big Media's claim that local journalism holds public officials accountable.

And where was the AP? This is a juicy little scandal with the novelty of involving homosexual activity. Don't tell me it is too local a story because AP is an organization that went to court and demanded to see 25,000 emails from Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin
... the babe libs love to hate ...
when she was governor. There was nothing untoward in any of the emails.

But now it cannot bother filing a rewrite of the Tallahassee Democrat story.
Posted by: Fred || 05/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gillum's melt-down in a Miami hotel room (male prostitute, meth, alcohol poisoning) didn't come out of thin air after he lost the governor's race to DeSantis by a whisker. It was part of an established pattern exacerbated by a bad political outcome for him.

Only different between Bath House and these "rising stars" is Bath House was a nance on a short leash because the deep state had so much invested in him.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/13/2022 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2 

OPEN QUESTION:
Should Politically Bias outlets that spew deliberately slanted misleading information to incite violent/physical civil disorder, be criminally charged as co-conspirators or accessories?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/13/2022 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ No, they should simply be held in custody indefinitely under Insurrection Act of 1807 (10 U.S.C. §§ 331-335).
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/13/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4 
^ #3.
Sounds like a viable solution.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/13/2022 8:33 Comments || Top||

#5  "He said he was a junior...I had no idea he was an adult!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/13/2022 10:45 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2022-05-13
  Violent protests all over Iran sparked by massive price increases.
Thu 2022-05-12
  Ukraine thwarts Russian battalion's river-crossing and destroys at least 58 vehicles
Wed 2022-05-11
  Camps Discovered in Russia House Thousands of Ukrainians Forcibly Removed From Homeland
Tue 2022-05-10
  Sri Lanka PM quits as violence kills 3, injures 150
Mon 2022-05-09
  At least 11 Egyptian soldiers killed in armed attack in Sinai
Sun 2022-05-08
  Islamic Emirate Announces Rules for Women’s Covering
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