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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI Agent Who Uncovered Weiner Laptop with Hillary's Emails says FBI Leadership Told Him to Erase All of His Findings
[GatewayPundit] John Robertson, was an FBI Agent who investigated crimes against children. This is how he stumbled upon Hillary Clinton’s emails.

We first reported on Robertson in August of 2018 when the mainstream media was focused on the Trump Russia Mueller sham investigation.

John was assigned to the Anthony Weiner case, a top Democrat married to Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin. During his investigation of Weiner’s computer John discovered thousands of Hillary Clinton emails and blew the whistle on the Comey-McCabe and Strzok cover-up of evidence.

“The crickets I was hearing was really making me uncomfortable because something was going to come down,” Robertson said he later told Justice Department investigators. “Why isn’t anybody here? Like if I’m the supervisor of any [counterintelligence] squad … and I hear about this, I’m getting on with headquarters and saying, ‘Hey, some agent working child porn here may have [Hillary Clinton] emails. Get your ass on the phone, call [the case agent], and get a copy of that drive,’ because that’s how it should be. And that nobody reached out to me within, like, that night, I still to this day don’t understand what the hell went wrong.” Robertson wrote a “Letter to Self” in late October after an Oct. 19, 2016, meeting, during which he implored Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Kramer of the Southern District of New York to push FBI leadership to look at the thousands of emails he had unearthed.

“I have very deep misgivings about the institutional response of the FBI to the congressional investigation into the Hillary Clinton email matter … Put simply: I don’t believe the handling of the material I have by the FBI is ethically or morally right. But my lawyer’s advice — that I simply put my SSA on notice should cover me — is that I have completed CYA [Cover Your Ass], and I have done so,” Robertson wrote. “Further, I was told by [Kramer] that should I ‘whistleblow,’ I will be prosecuted.”

Robertson continued: “I possess — the FBI possesses — 20 times more emails than Comey testified to. … While Comey did not know at the time about what I have, people in the FBI do now, and as far as I know, we are being silent. … If I say or do nothing more, I am falling short ethically and morally. And later, I may be accused of being a Hillary Clinton hack because of the timing of all this. … But if I say something (i.e., whistleblow), I will lose my reputation, my career, and risk prosecution. I will also be accused of being a Donald Trump hack.”
Posted by: Woodrow || 09/21/2020 18:29 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


More Epstein fun ensues
[The Sun] EVERY name on all Epstein flight manifests ‘to be revealed “sparking panic” among pedophile's rich pals.

Denise George, the Attorney General for the US Virgin Islands, has requested passenger names and contact information for every flight made by Epstein’s four helicopters and three planes from 1998 until his death by suicide in 2019, The Mirror reported on Sunday.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Clem || 09/21/2020 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  A future headline.
(humor)

US Virgin Islands AG Still Missing
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/21/2020 5:55 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Clem || 09/21/2020 6:41 Comments || Top||

#4  The Deep State doesn't like its odd and perverse sexual proclivities revealed. They are the means used to blackmail, control and wield power in D.C.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/21/2020 18:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Hopefully they'll have the destinations. I don't care about folks that flew on one of his jets to Africa or Europe. i care about the AZ compound and the island.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/21/2020 21:00 Comments || Top||

#6  New Mexico compound IIRC
Posted by: Frank G || 09/21/2020 21:44 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
A fugue on Lin Biao?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: 3dc || 09/21/2020 12:58 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  https://gnews.org/371949/
Posted by: 3dc || 09/21/2020 14:29 Comments || Top||

#2  At the junction of Shunyi and Tongzhou in Beijing, there were multiple huge explosions in the early morning of Sept 19th. The fire illuminates the sky, and thick smoke billows straight into the sky. Many local people were awakened by the explosion, and a large number of netizens posted messages on Weibo, saying that there were more than 100 fire trucks rushing to help and helicopters hovering in the air. However, almost all related posts were deleted, and the official emphasized that there were no casualties.
In the early morning of September 19, a large number of messages from Beijing netizens appeared on Weibo, saying that a serial explosion occurred near Beijing Shunyi International Airport at about 12 in the morning. Netizens said that more than 100 fire trucks and 120 ambulances rushed to the explosion site. There were many helicopters in the sky.

Soon after the explosion, almost all Weibo related posts were deleted. The Chinese Communist Party officials did not immediately report the incident. It was not until noon on the 19th that the Political and Legal Committee of the Tongzhou District Party Committee and the Tongzhou District Comprehensive Management Office released the news, stating that a yard in Gangbei Village, Songzhuang Town, Tongzhou District had stored a large number of “gas cans” which caused explosions. The official also emphasized that there were no casualties, but it was questioned by many netizens.

The timing of the explosion is sensitive due to the Chinese Communist Party’s national day celebration on Oct 1. The capital city Beijing is already on high alert for the upcoming “celebration”.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/21/2020 14:34 Comments || Top||

#3  I imagine the Beijing watchers will pay close attention to who among the senior leadership is nowhere seen during the upcoming National Day observations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/21/2020 15:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Alamogordo, N.M., July 16 The commanding officer of the Alamogordo Army Air Base made the following statement today: "Several inquiries have been received concerning a heavy explosion which occurred on the Alamogordo Air base reservation this morning. A remotely located ammunition magazine containing a considerable amount of high explosives and pyrotechnics exploded. There was no loss of life or injury to anyone, and the property damage outside of the explosives magazine was negligible. Weather conditions affecting the content of gas shells exploded by the blast may make it desirable for the Army to evacuate temporarily a few civilians from their homes."
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2020 15:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Other than that, the explosions were mostly peaceful..
Posted by: Warthog || 09/21/2020 17:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
2nd Republican senator comes out against Supreme Court nomination vote before election
[IsraelTimes] A second Republican senator, Lisa Daddy, can I be a senator? Murkowski
... representing K Street ...
of Alaska, says she would oppose any vote on a new Supreme Court nominee "this close to" the November 3 presidential election, making a delay more likely.

She adds her voice to that of Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who went further yesterday, saying the replacement to late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be made only by the president elected in November.

If two more Republican senators join Murkowski and Collins, they could block, or at least delay, a confirmation vote.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/21/2020 01:24 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let's see where the two's priorities really lie. Hold the vote. If they oppose it, then they will lose any chance for reelection.
Posted by: Sholunter Graith3951 || 09/21/2020 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^Sholunter Graith3951 a very good point.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/21/2020 2:44 Comments || Top||

#3  The President chosees a nominee, the Senate determines the outcome. If they are a Constitutionalist meaning Originalist or Textualist, they should survive the process to fill this vacancy.
Posted by: newc || 09/21/2020 2:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Murkowski, Collins, and now probably Grassley (RINO if there ever was one) and that leaves the whole thing sitting on squishes and weaklings like Romney or Graham, unless someone twists Manchin's (D WV) arm really hard. That would be the ideal thing though, get just one Dem to give them a fair vote. The GOP screwup that handed GA over to a dem is biting them really hard now.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 09/21/2020 3:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Watch though, if 4 Repubs come out against having a vote, then several more will go along with it that are in tight races.

McConnel should strip all the "defectors" of every leadership position they have, and move them to the least important committees and the lowest position in those. Actions must have consequences.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 09/21/2020 3:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Republican
In
Name
Only
In 2024-2028 we need to strongly consider
exposing and funding the replacement of all
RINO's. Especially that NY transplant guy in UTAH.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/21/2020 5:48 Comments || Top||

#7  If they oppose it, then they will lose any chance for reelection.

Nonsense. Murkowski is not up for reelection this year. Even if she was she's a lock in Alaska. Collins is likely to lose regardless of what she does.
Posted by: H-T-A || 09/21/2020 6:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Recess appointment in October, when Congress declares a recess in order to let members who are up for re-election go home to campaign.

It's a temporary backfill that prevents us from having a short handed, deadlocked Court in November. It can expire if the challenger wins or alternatively, be extended if the incumbent wins. It literally turns on the election.
Posted by: Maggie and Tenille7231 || 09/21/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Murkowski is just an attention ho. Needs to leave office.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/21/2020 9:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Reckless and irresponsible of these people to leave an incomplete and most likely deadlocked Supreme Court with a presidential election coming. You get a 4-4 tie in a case like Gore v Bush in 2000 and then what? The House decides? That's worse than RINO. That's full on Democrat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/21/2020 12:49 Comments || Top||

#11  PJ Media has a look at who is standing up to be counted thus far:

McConnell Gets Key Republican Senators to Support Filling SCOTUS Vacancy
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/21/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||

#12  For those who have forgotten:



Murkowski faced the most difficult election of her career in the August 24, 2010, Republican Party primary election against Joe Miller, a former U.S. magistrate judge[14] supported by former Governor Sarah Palin.[15] The initial ballot count for the primary showed her trailing Miller by a margin of 51–49%, with absentee ballots yet to be tallied.[16] After the first round of absentee ballots were counted on August 31, Murkowski conceded the race, stating that she did not believe that Miller's lead would be overcome in the next round of absentee vote count.[17][18]



On September 17, 2010, Murkowski said that she would mount a write-in campaign for the Senate seat.[21] Her write-in campaign was aided in large part with substantial monetary aid and assistance from the Native corporations and PACs, as well as support from state teachers' and firefighters' unions.[22]

On November 17, 2010, the Associated Press reported that Murkowski had become only the second Senate candidate (after Strom Thurmond in 1954) to win a write-in campaign, thereby retaining her seat.[23] Murkowski emerged victorious after a two-week count of write-in ballots showed she had overtaken Miller.[24][25] Miller did not concede defeat.[25] U.S. Federal District Judge Ralph Beistline granted an injunction to stop the certification of the election due to "serious" legal issues and irregularities raised by Miller as to the hand count of absentee ballots.[26] On December 10, 2010, an Alaskan judge dismissed Miller's case, clearing the way for Murkowski's win;[27] however, Miller appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court, and the results were not certified. On December 13, Miller appealed the Alaska Superior Court decision of the prior week to the Alaska Supreme Court. Miller's appeal was rejected by the state Supreme Court on December 22, 2010.[28] On December 28, 2010, U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline dismissed Miller's lawsuit. Murkowski was certified as the winner on December 30 by Gov. Sean
Posted by: charger || 09/21/2020 13:35 Comments || Top||

#13  Collins is going to lose, and good riddance. Nobody is going to vote for her worthless butt, which she is too dumb to understand. As for Graham, I doubt he'll turn coat at this moment. I personally suspect we'll have 51 to confirm (Romney is a Democrat, and Manchin always votes with the liberals, despite constant rumors to the contrary). Even if one other deserted, we could pass it with 51-50 (unless Pence votes against Trump for some dumb reason).

I have faith we'll get the seat. I also personally have faith we'll win the election, making the point moot. But we'll have to wait and see on that last point.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 09/21/2020 14:13 Comments || Top||

#14  support from state teachers' and firefighters' unions

Well, that confirms it. Murkowski is a Democrat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/21/2020 14:41 Comments || Top||

#15  You needed confirmation?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/21/2020 14:53 Comments || Top||

#16  What do Alaskans see in that kurva Murkowski? I thought they had their egesta together up there.
Posted by: Clem || 09/21/2020 16:17 Comments || Top||

#17 

Any questions?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/21/2020 18:38 Comments || Top||

#18  AOS refers to her as the Alaskan Snow Blower for her purported proclivity with the Bolivian Marching Powder
Posted by: Frank G || 09/21/2020 19:24 Comments || Top||

#19  @ #17 - I remember that photo. Two battle-axes going at it.
Posted by: Clem || 09/21/2020 19:31 Comments || Top||

#20  @17 I need one for my garden; birds are intolerable this year.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/21/2020 19:32 Comments || Top||

#21  Imagine if they had those pull strings on their backs so you could hear all the screeching - ground and aerial critters, GTFO!
Posted by: Raj || 09/21/2020 21:22 Comments || Top||

#22  "The dog lives loudly in you, Senator.."
Posted by: Punky Glineque9418 || 09/21/2020 22:37 Comments || Top||


Arrests made at Mitch McConnell's Kentucky home after hostile protesters defy police
[BIZPACREVIEW] Angry liberal Democrats carrying "Black Lives Matter, "Wanted" and "Revolution" signs showed up outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home in Louisville, Kentucky this Saturday to protest.

They were upset over his decision to abide by hundreds of years of established Senate precedent and move forward with nominating and confirming a Supreme Court justice during an election year.

"I’m disgusted that Senator McConnell would treat this opportunity in a complete different manner than he treated the opportunity when there was a vacancy when Obama was nine or 10 months away from the election," one of the protesters, Laura Johnsrude, said to Kentucky’s largest newspaper, The Courier-Journal.

"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."

But the American people already had their voices heard. They handed the Senate back to the Republicans during the 2014 midterms, thus granting McConnell the authority to vote against then-Democrat President Barack Hussein Obama’s SCOTUS pick after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death two years later.

Likewise, the American people kept the Senate in the hands of the Republicans during the 2018 midterms, thus granting McConnell the authority to now vote in favor of President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s expected SCOTUS pick following the death Friday of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  BLM and riots are Dem policy...

Jeez it's going to be such a Trumpian Landslide.

Going to need a longer Trumptrain!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/21/2020 3:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Why warn, just charge them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2020 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Jeez it's going to be such a Trumpian Landslide.

I hope you're right BP.
On Saturday I spoke with a (former) friend from Minneapolis. He's of the 'anybody but Trump' party.

I asked about the riots. He said "No rioting here. Those are just outa hand block parties". Poor dumb bastard believes the news, but he votes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/21/2020 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Skid, i have friends here who still slavishly get all their info from CNN and MSNBC and are convinced by what they view.... "landslide": it's not a sure bet
Posted by: 746 || 09/21/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||


Biden indicates he won't release SCOTUS nominee list
[MSN] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN Ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island...
indicated Sunday he will not be releasing a list of possible Supreme Court nominees despite growing pressure to do so. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday has left a vacancy on the high court and added another twist to the presidential race.

In remarks on the future of the Supreme Court from the National Constitution Center from Philadelphia, Biden singled out President Trump as the only presidential candidate to release a slate of possible nominees to the high court and suggested his doing so both in 2016 and 2020 set a dangerous precedent.

"First, putting a judge's name on a list like that could influence that person's decision making as a judge, and that would be wrong, or at least create the perception that it would have influence," Biden said in explaining why he is not in favor of releasing a list of contenders. "Second, anyone put on a list like that under these circumstances would be subject to unrelenting political attacks, because any nominee I would select would not get a hearing until 2021 at the earliest. She would endure those attacks for months on end without being able to defend herself."

Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Then put Biden's name on it.
Posted by: gorb || 09/21/2020 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Does Biden do anything?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/21/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||


#4  No, Biden is the Very Model of a Modern Major General, err, "Senator" (cue the Gilbert and Sullivan song) The closer you get the less you see...
Posted by: magpie || 09/21/2020 10:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Shoot, you know they are going to stuff her with straw and parade around every metropolis which can accommodate a glass onion.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/21/2020 18:47 Comments || Top||

#6  He boxed himself into only lame choices when he said he'd have a woman of color for VP. I don't blame him for avoiding the issue.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/21/2020 20:59 Comments || Top||


New York Times: More than 60 Percent of Latinos Reject Progressives' Identity Politics
[BREITBART] Only about 25 percent of Latinos identify with Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
’s progressive identity politics, while more than 60 percent of Latinos favor Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
’s populist, pro-American pitch, according to a September 18 report in the New York Times

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

.The study asked voters and focus group for their views on "a dog-whistle message lifted from Republican talking points ... [about] ’illegal immigration from places overrun with drugs and criminal gangs’ and called for ’fully funding the police, so our communities are not threatened by people who refuse to follow our laws,’" the authors wrote in their September 18 op-ed.

The shocked authors reported, "Almost three out of five white respondents judged the message convincing. More surprising, exactly the same percentage of African-Americans agreed, as did an even higher percentage of Latinos."

The political problem for Biden’s progressive allies is that only about 25 percent of Latinos identify themselves as a progressive-style "people of color" identity group, the authors said. The majority of Latinos "rejected this designation [because] they preferred to see Hispanics as a group integrating into the American mainstream, one not overly bound by racial constraints but instead able to get ahead through hard work."
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm guessing the Hispanic repudiation is even greater. There is no way Dems win with these numbers.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/21/2020 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  This also means you can kiss Blue Texas goodbye.
Posted by: Cleting Closh2157 || 09/21/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Dyed in the wool Catholics, not the 'liberation' theology types that occupy some of the top positions. They understand the difference between tolerance and submission.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  This is why the Democrats are melting down now. Without 90% of the black vote and 70% of the Hispanic vote, they can't win a national election.

They know the polls that show Biden the puppet ahead by 6, 8, 10 points are complete bullshit and that the reality on the ground is that Trump is not just ahead but actually pulling away. Privately they admit this but none (except maybe Ed Rendell) will say so publicly.
Posted by: Dino Uleamp4837 || 09/21/2020 9:03 Comments || Top||

#5  It'll be fun to see how high Trump's Latino support goes when he nominates the Cuban-American judge Barbara Lagoa for SCOTUS. Landslide, anyone?
Posted by: Thath Flaick9196 || 09/21/2020 9:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Many of the Latinos I met at work, green card holders, came from small towns and farms where the ethic was hard work and not rioting.
Posted by: magpie || 09/21/2020 11:00 Comments || Top||

#7  @6 Didn't they know that is white supremacy!?!?!

Or are they white supremacists now? I get so confused.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/21/2020 12:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Latin is an ethnic classification. Hispanic comes from the Roman name for their province of Hispania which today is modern Spain. Spain is part of Europe thus 'white'. Not to be confused with mestizos y indios which the Left lump together as Hispanic or Latinx.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2020 13:08 Comments || Top||

#9  The people I see busing tables and working as landscapers may speak a dialect of Spanish but they are not Spanish and they are not white. Recent immigrants may not be well educated but they're not stupid. The ones who have been here a while are catching on.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/21/2020 14:48 Comments || Top||

#10  /\#8, ...and many of the Central Americans and South Americans I worked with quietly loathed Mexicans. It seems that on their way through Mexico they were harassed, fleeced and abused by the natives. Small anecdotal sample, but it is silly to think that everyone Hablé de español? from south of the border thinks in lock step.
Posted by: magpie || 09/21/2020 17:31 Comments || Top||

#11  the BLM riots have massively hurt hispanic biz

(also black Biz but the massive suck ups may help offset it)
Posted by: lord garth || 09/21/2020 18:31 Comments || Top||


Michigan Allows 'Ballot Harvesting' for More than Four Days
[BREITBART] A Michigan court decision that will extend the deadline for postmarked mail-in ballots to be received up to 14 days after Election Day will also allow ballots to be submitted by third parties — a practice called "ballot harvesting" — during a specific period.As Breitbart News reported earlier Friday, Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens ruled that mail-in ballots postmarked by November 2 — the day before Election Day — will still be counted in Michigan in the 2020 election.

In addition, Judge Stephens said that strangers can return other people’s ballots — normally a felony — between 5:01 p.m. on Friday, October 30, and 8:00 p.m. on November 3, the moment that polling places are supposed to close on Election Day.

Judge Stephens wrote:

This court enjoins MCL 168.932(f) in this election from 5:00 p.m. Friday October 30, 2020 until the close of the polls on November 3, 2020, in so far as it limits the class of persons who may render an absent voter assistance. As a result, a voter casting an absent voter ballot in the November 2020 general election may select any individual the voter chooses to render assistance in returning an absent voter ballot, but only for the limited time period when assistance from the clerk is not required, i.e., between 5:01 p.m. on the Friday before the election and the close of polls on Election Day.
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


AZ GOP Sheriff Candidate: I Will 'Line Up Jail Buses' to Arrest Rioters
[BREITBART] Jerry Sheridan, the Republican candidate for Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff, says he will "line up jail buses" to take protesters-turned-rioters to prison.Sheridan told Breitbart News, "I will enforce people’s constitutional rights to peaceably protest. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
as soon as someone throws a rock or a bottle that is not longer a peaceful protest. I will declare it an unlawful assembly and immediately disperse the crowd before it becomes a riot."

He said, "I will have jail buses, that we transport inmates in, lined up in row to arrest the people that do not disperse [if the protest becomes riotous]."

"I’m not fooling around with this. These rioters, they don’t just attack Republican businesses. They don’t just attack and destroy and burn and loot businesses in wealthy communities. They attack, especially small business owners that probably have their life savings, their life work in these places, [the rioters] don’t discriminate," Sheridan added.

"They tear them all down, and it’s my job as the sheriff to protect everybody. Regardless of the location in Maricopa County, regardless of who owns the businesses."

He said it is the job of the sheriff to "protect property and life."

Sheridan was with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for 38 years, 33 of which he spent in leadership, culminating in him holding the highest-ranking uniformed position of Chief Deputy.
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Make us proud AZ
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/21/2020 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  No, no, no. Don't take them to prison. Just a remote area of AZ and drop them off. Be kind and post signs around the region - Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers, Active Plague Zone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2020 9:21 Comments || Top||


Hillary Clinton: Trump, GOP's 'Lust for Power' Is Destroying Our Institutions
[BREITBART] Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee 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...
accused President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) of having a destructive lust for power on Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s "Meet the Press."
Said the greedy, grasping, shrieking harridan. America's ex-wife
While discussing a nominee to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clinton said, "I was able to watch your previous interviews with Senators Klobuchar and Barrasso, and Senator Barrasso is doing an epic job trying to defend the indefensible. The system has been broken for quite a while, but clearly, the decision that Mitch McConnell made back in 2016 in the midst of that presidential election, but at a much earlier time when Justice Scalia unexpectedly passed away, should be the standard now. They talk about we had other standards before, well, they made a new precedent and the new presidential which they defended incredibly passionately was to wait for the next president, whoever that is, to make the nomination, but as you clearly heard, that is not what they are intending, and it’s another blow to our institutions."

She added, "You know, what’s happening in our country is incredibly dangerous. Our institutions are being basically undermined by the lust for power, power for personal gain in the case of the president or power for institutional gain in the case of Mitch McConnell, at the cost of ensuring that our institutions withstand whatever the political wins might be. But they made this decision if 2016, and they held to account for it.”
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Said the woman who turned the US government into a bazaar in exchange for dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
Posted by: Sholunter Graith3951 || 09/21/2020 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes I wonder how much of those pallets of cash landing in Iran landed back in the clinton foundation.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/21/2020 3:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Hillary Clinton: Trump, GOP's 'Lust for Power' Is Destroying Our Institutions

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/21/2020 4:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Que Pee Wee Herman..."I know you are but what am I"
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/21/2020 5:23 Comments || Top||

#5  We need an updated photo of that scoundrel. She has attained old bag status, and that photo does her (and us) no justice. But for now, this will do:
Posted by: Clem || 09/21/2020 6:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Says it all. It's all about power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2020 9:19 Comments || Top||

#7  greedy, grasping, shrieking harridan. America's ex-wife
Awesome, I'm stealing that and calling it my own.
Posted by: One Eyed Tsar || 09/21/2020 11:53 Comments || Top||

#8  More projection.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/21/2020 12:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Institutions exist to serve society.

They are not ends in themselves.

Given that the left has devoured nearly all of them, and is using its command thereof to destroy our society and civilization, I honestly wouldn't miss them if they were all gone.
Posted by: charger || 09/21/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||

#10  HildaBeest, the Queen of the Lust for Power.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/21/2020 18:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Say his name: Jake Gardner
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/21/2020 18:31 Comments || Top||


Michael Moore Urges Pelosi to Shut Down Government to Block GOP from Filling Ginsburg's Seat
[BREITBART] Documentary filmmaker and hard-left activist Michael Moore has suggested that House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
shut down the U.S. government to prevent President Trump from filling the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Moore spent most of his September 20 podcast urging leftists and Democrat voters to rise up and speak out to prevent President Trump from fulfilling his promise to pick a Supreme Court justice to fill Ginsburg’s seat on the nation’s highest court. As he wrapped up his hour-long podcast, Moore turned to Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and urged her to refuse to pass the government’s budget to prevent the U.S. Senate from "having the funds" to continue operating.

Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fat boy can't grow up and get a real job. Keeps snarfing McDee's and trying to destroy the rest of us.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/21/2020 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump can then just make sure abortion groups don't get any taxpayer money in any shutdown...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/21/2020 3:27 Comments || Top||

#3  So the Liberal - Socialist - Marxist - Democrat Party is so lacking in leadership that takes political directions and orders from Far Left Hollywood Producers Directors & Actors? A collection of misfits that cannot even produce a fact based documentary?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/21/2020 6:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Someone needs to fill Mikey's fat seat. With buckshot
Posted by: Albert Omoluger3917 || 09/21/2020 9:40 Comments || Top||

#5  how about his chest albert?
Posted by: Chris || 09/21/2020 10:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Does anybody care what fat slob Michael Moore says?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/21/2020 14:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Does he have any tips on buying Halliburton stock?
Posted by: Clem || 09/21/2020 16:18 Comments || Top||

#8  "Lame-duck appointment of Supreme Court justice 'can be done': Chris Christie. If the president consults and cooperates with the senate or moderates his selections, then his nominees ..." As usual Dem's are a do nothing group.
Posted by: Dale || 09/21/2020 18:20 Comments || Top||

#9  The nasty grams are starting to circulate socialist media from the left in earnest.

And they are absolutely ruthless.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/21/2020 19:27 Comments || Top||


Holder: 'Additional Justices' Needed on Supreme Court if Trump Appointment Confirmed
Good idea. Trump should increase the number of justices to 21, and appoint all the new justices his next term. That'll guarantee conservative control of the court for at least the next forty years.
[BREITBART] Saturday, during an appearance on MSNBC’s "PoliticsNation," former Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder
... aka Mister Fast and Furious...
told host civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
if Republicans succeeded in confirming a replacement for Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appointed by President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, a future Democrat Senate majority along with Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. 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.'...
, if he is elected president, should consider "court reform."

According to Holder, such a measure would mean adding justices to the Supreme Court.

"You would put in place — if this is allowed to happen, a 6-3 court," he said. "And with all the issues you have talked about, you would have a conservative majority — or illegitimate conservative majority on the court ruling on the matters that will affect the nation for generations to come. One of the realities is if Merrick Garland had been confirmed, as he should have been, there would have been a progressive majority for the past three years. And think what about that meant. So I think if, if in fact, they are successful in placing a justice on the court, I think that what Democrats have to do, assuming that Biden is president and there is a Senate majority for the Democrats, we need to think about court reform. And at a minimum, as part of that reform package, I think additional justices need to be placed on the Supreme Court.”

Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I've got an idea, let's introduce 50, one for each state!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/21/2020 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Let’s go for broke and have 643 justices!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/21/2020 0:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Of course as the man who gave Mexico to the drug barons with Fast and Furious he can't wait until we are as internally unstable as Mexico.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/21/2020 2:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Surely 57 judges, one for each state?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/21/2020 3:31 Comments || Top||

#5  you would have a conservative majority — or illegitimate conservative majority on the court ruling on the matters that will affect the nation for generations to come. One of the realities is if Merrick Garland had been confirmed, as he should have been, there would have been a progressive majority for the past three years


So what you're saying is that a Progressive Majority is allowable, but a Conservative Majority is not allowed?

Fuck. You.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 09/21/2020 4:03 Comments || Top||

#6  So says the Racists (see his Anti-White statements) EX US AG that operated a massive Illegal Gun operation while AG. Where he approved and oversaw the selling automatic weapons and other firearms to the Drug Cartel and Mexican Gang members.

All of which resulted in the deaths of American Law Enforcement and civilians.

Why wasn't he ever criminally charged for the resulting deaths and homicides?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/21/2020 6:18 Comments || Top||

#7  These type of announcements from the Left just proves that given the same situation and same position they would nominate and confirm a new Justice before the next election. They are basically saying they would change the rules to pack the court to meet their quest for power if given the opportunity.
Posted by: Airandee || 09/21/2020 6:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Surprise. The only use of the Constitution is to keep the rubes believing it still exists. Power by any means necessary.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Hey, why can't I be a judge? I have rights & feelings, too.
Posted by: Clem || 09/21/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Whatever you add to the court, we'll double it. Now go home and cry in your tofu.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/21/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#11  They've been talking about doing away with the filibuster for a week+; now its Appoint A Justice and We Get Rid of Filibuster!.

They are telling what the plan for next year is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/21/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||

#12  If the demoncrats get 51 seats in the Senate, I guarantee the filibuster will never see the light of day.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/21/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||

#13  You have to wonder how much money did Holder get for those Fast and Furious guns?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/21/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||

#14  I nominate Nick Sandman, Kyle Rittenhouse and Andy Ngo.
Posted by: Matt || 09/21/2020 13:22 Comments || Top||

#15  I want a living constitution of the Far Right.
Posted by: charger || 09/21/2020 13:50 Comments || Top||

#16  Good idea. Trump should increase the number of justices to 21, and appoint all the new justices his next term. That'll guarantee conservative control of the court for at least the next forty years.

Coyote and Roadrunner cartoon. The roadrunner always wins.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/21/2020 18:08 Comments || Top||

#17  Say his name: Jake Gardner
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/21/2020 18:36 Comments || Top||


Biden: 200 million Americans have died of Coronavirus
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why are people still listening to this?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/21/2020 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2  also, uh, the battery is low
Posted by: lord garth || 09/21/2020 0:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Howdy survivors!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/21/2020 1:05 Comments || Top||

#4  I died. Twice.
Posted by: Sholunter Graith3951 || 09/21/2020 2:02 Comments || Top||

#5  I know his wife intends to out do Edith Wilson but it's long past silly.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/21/2020 2:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Is this the Bee?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/21/2020 3:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Net Neutrality and Trump's tax cuts killed me twice. This makes three times I died
Posted by: Frank G || 09/21/2020 6:54 Comments || Top||

#8  There are three types of people; those who can count, and those who can't.
Posted by: AuburnTom || 09/21/2020 8:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Put this sad character into a nursing home, already.
Posted by: Omeng Bucket2817 || 09/21/2020 8:44 Comments || Top||

#10  It's estimated that 200 million people have died—probably by the time I—finish this talk."

If they were listening to this speech, they'd die of boredom.
Posted by: Raj || 09/21/2020 9:16 Comments || Top||

#11  I think I'll go for a walk.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/21/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||

#12  Biden's a place holder. The Democrats know they can't beat Trump, so they put him up as a sacrifice and to position Harris for a future run.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/21/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#13  ...except the fires the have set will consume their ambitions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2020 12:16 Comments || Top||

#14  The vaunted Worldometer™ says there have only been 31,412,042 cases total. 967,546 deaths.

Somehow I just have no confidence in any number that comes out of Gropey Joe's mouth.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/21/2020 15:42 Comments || Top||

#15  Plugz needs memory hole plugs.
Posted by: Herman Protector of the Heathen Rus2520 || 09/21/2020 15:48 Comments || Top||

#16  That's something not even Joey could plagiarize.
Posted by: Clem || 09/21/2020 16:15 Comments || Top||


MICHIGAN Official: Toilet display in Mason mocking mail-in voting is a crime
[DetroitNews] Mason — A Michigan resident’s apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one election official.

The resident put a toilet on their lawn with a sign that says, "Place mail in ballots here."

Barb Byrum, the Democratic clerk of Ingham County, filed a complaint with police over the display, saying it could mislead people who aren’t familiar with the voting system.

"It is a felony to take illegal possession of an absentee ballot," Byrum said Friday.

"Elections in this country are to be taken seriously and there are many people who are voting by mail for the first time this election," she said.

Police told the AP that the complaint is being investigated.
We'll get back to you when we can, says the police. Note the Recall Whitmer signs in the guy's yard also. Probably a Trumper.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/21/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "It is a felony to take illegal possession of an absentee ballot," Byrum said Friday.

Yes, but... (from the ballot harvesting thread)

In addition, Judge Stephens said that strangers can return other people’s ballots — normally a felony — between 5:01 p.m. on Friday, October 30, and 8:00 p.m. on November 3,

If they are stupid enough to charge him, seems like the resident could plead
A) It is a political statement. 1st Amendment
B) I'm saving them up to deposit them during Official Ballot Harvesting hours. Just being a good neighbor!
Posted by: SteveS || 09/21/2020 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Barb must know that her voters will take the sign seriously.
Posted by: gorb || 09/21/2020 1:32 Comments || Top||

#3  They really do hate the Constitution.

In the next republic can we have the penalty of public flogging of any government official who acts or conspires to strip a citizen of his written Constitutional rights?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/21/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Gee, Barb, Alinsky said to laugh at your enemies. You AREN'T against Alinsky, ARE YOU? ARE YOU?
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/21/2020 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Barb, did you realize that you have just said "Third Party Ballot Harvesting" is a BAD Idea™ !
Posted by: magpie || 09/21/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||



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