Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley received a warning call from a retired military buddy on election night 2020 as returns were coming in
'You’re surrounded by total incompetence,' the friend warned. 'There's fourth-rate people at the Pentagon. And you have fifth-rate people at the White House' Is he fighting all that incompetence, or standing at attention and saluting?
The friend wanted to impress upon Milley that he was 'an island unto yourself right now. You are not tethered. Your loyalty is to the Constitution' Which means what to him in this situation?
Milley's election night was chronicled in the new book, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker
It also said that Defense Secretary Mark Esper got an NBC News story killed because his firing could have 'worrisome repercussions' amid election turmoil
Esper had been on the chopping block with Trump since June when he refused to use the Insurrection Act on Black Lives Matter protesters
The authors write that it was Rudy Giuliani who encouraged Trump to announce himself the winner of the election before the full results were in
The journalists also wrote that Trump 'seemed to truly believe he had been winning,' before mail-in ballots put Biden ahead That’s “mail-in ballots”, because they were fake votes of various kinds. Had they been real they would have put Biden ahead, but they weren’t.
[PJMedia] With the heat rising, more illegal immigrants colonists are dying as they attempt to cross the border, usually of dehydration and sometimes of hypothermia.
Preliminary numbers obtained by Jaeson Jones, host of Tripwires & Triggers, tell us there have been 109 bodies of illegal immigrants colonists found in June, up from 61 in May. The stats come directly from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). That brings the total for fiscal year 2021 to 321 bodies discovered by CBP—and there are three months to go. No one has an estimate of how many others die and are never discovered.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
Illegal immigrants colonists frequently traverse through desert and ranchland to avoid detection by CBP. The Rio Grande Valley sector in southern Texas and Arizona’s Tucson sector account for most of the summer deaths, which generally spike in tandem with illegal crossing numbers. Over the past 20 years, the highest number of deaths recorded by CBP was 492, in fiscal year 2005, and the lowest was 251 deaths in 2015.
Deputy Sheriff Don White’s main focus in Brooks County, Texas, is to find the bodies of dead immigrants colonists. Brooks County is about 70 miles north of the U.S.—Mexico border. It’s also where a lot of bodies are found.
Sherriff White recovered 15 bodies in June. So far this year, the county has found 52, a substantive increase over 2020, when 34 bodies were recovered over the whole year.
"June was a cool month with lots of rain," Sheriff White told the Epoch Times on July 11. "July and August will be the worst for heat, and it’s quite possible that the 52 recoveries we have so far may dramatically increase."
White, who runs the nonprofit Remote Wildlands Search and Recovery, said the body count would be "considerably higher than it is now" if it wasn’t for the CBP EMTs’ quick response to 911 calls.
WAY TO GO, BIDEN
In May 2021, CBP conducted 7,084 rescues along the border. The agency has rescued 35 percent more illegal immigrants colonists thus far in the current fiscal year than in all of fiscal 2020.
From October 2020 to May 2021, Border Patrol snagged roughly 1 million illegal aliens, according to CBP.
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I was on a jobsite today and a twin-engine aircraft, on descent, flew overhead. The Mexican job-boss looked up and said "INS!" He, and the rest of the crew laughed heartily.
INS is a joke to too many people, and this encourages tragic and needless deaths.
Stacey Abrams & big in the same sentence? Redundant to the extreme!
[Townhall] - Georgia Republicans got a big win over Democrats in a special election for a state House seat on Tuesday night. Republican Devan Seabaugh defeated Democrat Priscilla Smith in the election for House District 34 with 63 percent of the vote.
Former Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), who recently launched a nonprofit organization aimed at registering and reaching voters, Greater Georgia, celebrated the GOP's win. Loeffler’s group played a major role in turning out Republican votes.
"I congratulate Representative-elect Devan Seabaugh on his hard-earned — and much-deserved — victory in State House District 34 as a champion for pro-growth, conservative values under the Gold Dome," said Loeffler. "From the outset of this special election, Greater Georgia began organizing a mass-mobilization effort to help build awareness and get out the vote. Between our registration and voter outreach efforts, we engaged thousands of voters to help successfully defend this seat."
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While Republicans saw major turnout and success, failed 2018 gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and her organization, Fair Fight, were handed a loss on Tuesday night.
Just a little thin on the Stacey Abrams angle; I was expecting something with much more heft...
[GatewayPundit] On Monday night Garland Favorito, the founder of the election integrity group VoterGA, announced he will hold a press conference on Tuesday morning.
VoterGA will review highlights of its amended ballot inspection complaint and provide proof that election fraud occurred in the November 2020 election.
The press conference will start at 10:30 AM Eastern.
On Tuesday morning VoterGA sent out a statement of their findings before the press conference.
The voter integrity group found that the Fulton County Georgia recount included a 60% error reporting rate.
VoterGA also found THOUSANDS of fraudulent Biden ballots.
The press release:
New Evidence Reveals GA Audit Fraud and Massive Errors
ATLANTA GA – Petitioners in a lawsuit organized by VoterGA to inspect Fulton County ballots have added stunning claims in their amended complaint and provided new evidence from public records that show Fulton County’s hand count audit of the November 3 rd 2020 election was riddled with massive errors and provable fraud.
Most new allegations and evidence are based on a VoterGA data team’s analysis of Fulton’s November 2020 mail-in ballot images made public after petitioners won a court order on April 13th and VoterGA lobbying efforts led the Georgia General Assembly to make all images public under Open Records Requests beginning March 25th.
The team’s analysis revealed that 923 of 1539 mail-in ballot batch files contained votes incorrectly reported in Fulton’s official November 3rd 2020 results. These inaccuracies are due to discrepancies in votes for Donald Trump, Joe Biden and total votes cast compared to their reported audit totals for respective batches. Thus, the error reporting rate in Fulton’s hand count audit is a whopping 60%.
One type of error discovered involved duplicate results reporting for batches of ballots. The team found at least 36 batches of mail-in ballots with 4,255 total extra votes were redundantly added into Fulton Co. audit results for the November election. These illicit votes include 3,390 extra votes for Joe Biden, 865 extra votes for Donald Trump and 43 extra votes for Jo Jorgenson.
But it is not simply a case of errors. The VoterGA team found 7 falsified audit tally sheets containing fabricated vote totals for their respective batches. For example, a batch containing 59 actual ballot images for Joe Biden, 42 for Donald Trump and 0 for Jo Jorgenson was reported as 100 for Biden and 0 for Trump. The seven batches of ballot images with 554 votes for Joe Biden, 140 votes for Donald Trump and 11 votes for Jo Jorgenson had tally sheets in the audit falsified to show 850 votes for Biden, 0 votes for Trump and 0 votes for Jorgenson.
Fulton Co. failed to include over 100,000 tally sheets, including more than 50,000 from mail-in ballots, when the results were originally published for the full hand count audit conducted by the office of the Secretary of State for the November 3rd 2020 election. Those tally sheets remained missing until late February when the county supplemented their original audit results.
Petitioners contend that Fulton County did not provide drop box transfer forms for at least three pickup days when obligated to do so via an Open Records Request. Those missing forms are still
needed to provide chain of custody proof for about 5,000 ballots.
The VoterGA data team also found over 200 Fulton County mail-in ballot images containing votes not included in the hand count audit results for the November election. All these anomalies are now included in the Fulton County ballot inspection lawsuit as additional counts of how the Equal Protection and Due Process Constitutional rights of Georgia voters were violated.
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Jim Hoft (GP) is a curious dude. Gay, but Republican and Conservative. Prone to hyperbolic articles that don't pan out, but also gets real news that is nearly "bombshell" status and not published elsewhere.
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The Gateway Pundit article is built around the VoterGA press release., which would have been sent to far more addresses than just his. But the mainstream media and the leftwing new media are ignoring developments as hard as they can. And the firehose of information coming out about all the horrible things the Democrats and the Left have been doing that it’s easy enough to lose track.
[WSJ] The Texas Senate advanced a bill imposing stricter voting rules Tuesday, a day after their Democratic counterparts in the state House fled the state to prevent the bill’s final passage.
Dozens of House Democrats have vowed to stay in Washington, D.C. until the special legislative session ends Aug. 7 in order to kill the bill, which must pass both chambers. The House cannot approve legislation without a two-thirds quorum of its 150 members. The remaining House members voted 76-4 Tuesday morning to send law enforcement to find absent Democrats and return them "under warrant of arrest, if necessary."
Some Democratic senators were also absent Tuesday, but the body had enough members to conduct business and voted 18-4, along party lines, to pass the bill in its chamber.
Both chambers of the Republican-controlled Texas legislature, in a special legislative session that began last week, filed similar versions of the bill, which would broadly tighten voting rules across the state. Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... called the special session after Democratic House members walked out before a voting deadline at the end of the regular legislative session in May, denying the body a quorum needed to vote on the proposed legislation.
Texas Democrats start singing “We Shall Overcome” during their press conference in DC after leaving the state to prevent quorum on an election integrity bill pic.twitter.com/Jy8OvPvyw9
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Change the quorum rules - one half, plus one. Repubs should be allowed to drag these asswipes back to the House floor by their hair and pull the fuckin' roots out.
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And change the laws, abandoning the legislature during a session should be punished as a resignation from their office, a fine of not less than $10 million or 50% of ALL their assets, a felony conviction that removes voting, gun rights and the ability to hold office with jail time of 5-10 years.
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That rendition of "We Shall Overcome" was a little pitchy, Dog.
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Change the law so that abandoning the legislature during a session is counted as an abstention.
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#8 So true, and an early Snark O' The Day candidate
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If they want to play games - declare the seats vacant and schedule new elections within a month.
Thinking alike here, from the other thread, I concluded when they left the state during session, they resigned.
Only I'd want the special election this Friday as GOP hit the blocks today getting required signatures. Hit quick while they are disorganized and full of themselves.
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Some Democrats "sing," a few hum,
And several just stand, looking dumb,
But I can't look away!
Oy vey, ey, ey, ey, ey, ey...
I'm verklempt and, indeed, overcome.
Democrats are worried they'll hurt themselves in Florida — and more broadly in the midterms — if they mishandle the situation in Cuba. https://t.co/UOkKYqGPOt
[BBC] Democratic politicians in Texas have left their state en masse in an effort to prevent Republicans there from passing a law to tighten voting rules.
The move will temporarily paralyse the state's House of Representatives, which requires at least two-thirds of the 150 members be present for a vote.
At least 50 House Democrats boarded two private jets from Austin to Washington DC on Monday.
The move comes amid a wave of voting restrictions in Republican-led states.
Republicans argue the measures are essential for election security but Democrats see them as an attack on the right to vote.
The bill in Texas would ban 24-hour polling places and expand the authority of partisan poll watchers. A first vote is planned later this week.
The House lawmakers took off on Monday afternoon. When they landed in Washington DC, the Democrats said they would not return until the 30-day special session had ended next month.
Under Texas House rules, absent politicians can be arrested and returned to the house floor. But the authority responsible does not have jurisdiction outside Texas.
In response to the exodus, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, said the House would use "every available resource" to secure a quorum.
PROBABLY ONLY DELAYS THE INEVITABLE
Texas Democrats are again attempting to prevent state Republicans from passing new voting restrictions - and where they're going says everything about their ultimate objective.
This fight, in their view, will be won or lost in Washington DC - where Democrats have control - not in Texas, where Republicans call the shots. And not only could federal legislation override the proposed changes to Texas voting laws, it would also block enacted measures in Georgia, Arizona and other key presidential battleground states.
There has been concern among liberals that the Biden administration is not taking seriously the threat state-level voting laws pose to Democratic candidates in forthcoming elections - and has not shown a willingness to take aggressive action in Congress to push through new national rules.
It is, however, a symbolic move. It probably only delays the inevitable in Texas and is unlikely to change the dynamic in Washington, where the Republican Senate minority has more effective means to block the Democrats than simply leaving town.
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The local CBS news last night interviewed several of the four Dems who stayed, citing obligations to their constituents.
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It is, however, a symbolic move. It probably only delays the inevitable in Texas and is unlikely to change the dynamic in Washington
In other words, it's just "grievance theater," generically known as the hollow gesture. But the dem politicians and their useful idiot voters have an insatiable appetite for it.
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I'd like to smack the taste out of all those twats grinning ear to ear on that jet. Spiteful, petty asshole.
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Arrest them all. They are obstructing the wheels of the government. Toss them in the clink until Washington, D.C. releases the Jan. 6th insurrectionists (Trump supporters) (sarc) from jail.
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They resigned from their obligation to represent in good faith, leaving the positions unoccupied until a special election can be concluded, thus changing the required count for a quorum.
And if the Texas Pubs are really on it, they are as we speak getting the minimum number of signatures required for those districts, with the special election this Friday, and there is only one name on the ticket.
*Chris, notice nobody has a mask, not even dangling for the pictures.
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The Socialist bill in Congress is a clear power grab - We The Party. They'll have to demonstrate a clear and unquestionable proof of massive voter suppression to SCOTUS to justify that grab. It'll be challenged to there no matter what the Party does.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJMedia] With the heat rising, more illegal im
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
