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-Great Cultural Revolution
Kanye West kicked out of JP Morgan Chase banking (they don't like his politics)
[Twitter]



Poor Mr. Ye appears to be going through the manic phase of his bipolar cycle. Over the past few days he’s been saying and tweeting increasingly bizarre things about Jews, apparently repeating Black Hebrew Israelite delusions. See here.
Instapundit has more here.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/13/2022 05:35 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  JP Morgan Chase bank is obviously racist.

[Alinsky them by the same standards they foist on everyone else]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2022 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Can’t dump my Chase card until I use up my points but did just tell my financial advisor to avoid any investments in them (or other mega-banks) - I may lose money from avoiding ‘too big to fail’ companies but can’t be that hypocritical.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/13/2022 15:16 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^^ My thoughts exactly.

But my remedy? Find JP Morgan Chase loss leader products and use them! For example, the Chase Freedom (sic) card gives you 5% back on selected purchases. If you pay off on time, there is no way Chase makes money on this. In fact, they lose quite a bit. And do NOT make any other purchases except for ones they pay you 5% back on. They lose money on you. I love it.
Posted by: Tom || 10/13/2022 15:21 Comments || Top||


Make up your mind, Eric! NYC Mayor Adams walks back decision not to house migrants at Manhattan's swanky Row hotel - and now plans to transform the property into 'humanitarian relief center' for up to 200 families
  • Adams made the announcement Wednesday, revealing the hotel would open its doors to migrants - after closing them in August after a promise to take in 600

  • His announcement came just a day after he told citizens in the crime-ridden city to expect migrant facilities to come to 'every community'

  • It also comes as the city struggles to think of ways to shelter the thousands of asylum seekers being bussed from red states such as Texas and Arizona

  • Since the summer, nearly 20,000 asylum seekers - predominantly from Latin America - have been carted into the city, with almost 2,000 this weekend alone

  • The sudden influx has put the city's shelter system to its limit, Adams, 62, warned last week, and could cost taxpayers $1 billion this year alone
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2022 01:22 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Policy spitballing.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/13/2022 10:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Is Rikers Island still a functioning prison? Lots of rooms and even a cafeteria. Even if it still is in use you aren't locking up anyone anymore so it should be safe.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/13/2022 11:00 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden says son Beau 'lost his life in Iraq' during Colorado speech
FoxNews] Beau Biden died in 2015 as a result of brain cancer.
Another day, another sign of his deepening dementia.
"And my daughter-in-law, Beau's widow, played pincushion to my crackhead son..."
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  While shooting Osama bin Laden right between the eyes. Swear!
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/13/2022 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Please continue sniffing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2022 1:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Beau was Joe's son. Beau died. This statement is "mostly true."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/13/2022 7:43 Comments || Top||


#5  Lies and delusions. Watching the Biden presidency is like watching a reboot of the movie Momento without the coherence, sixpence interest or likability. Maybe it is more like watching an unfunny King Pin.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/13/2022 10:43 Comments || Top||

#6  The Saudis just exposed our Vegetable in Chief for begging them to “postpone — for just one month,” ie until after the elections— OPEC’s decision to cut production

November Surprise, lol
Posted by: Billy B || 10/13/2022 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Quoth The Vegetable, “Nobody fucks with a Biden!”

Things That Fuck With A Biden:
1. Teleprompters
2. Steps leading up to an airplane
3. Bicycles
4. Saudi Kings
Posted by: Billy B || 10/13/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Things That Fuck With A Biden:

5. 12 year-old daughters and 14 year-old nieces of Bidens
Posted by: Chaim || 10/13/2022 11:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Dunno if this is dementia. Biden was always dishonest and delusional.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/13/2022 12:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Some things in your life should be above lies even if you re a politician. This repeated lie shows that nothing is sacred in Biden's life, everything is transactionable, a man with a void where his soul should be.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/13/2022 14:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Biden is an incontinent liar. He lies when the lie is no improvement on the truth.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/13/2022 14:50 Comments || Top||

#12  Bronze star? Wasn't he a lawyer or some shit?

And if people were dropping dead like that from burn pits, it would have been noticed especially as a cudgel against W. What about some high powered psychotherapy drug needed to keep him from behaving like the rest of his family?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2022 15:00 Comments || Top||

#13  In Viet Nam, many officers were given end-of-tour Bronze Stars. They did not have the combat "V" device which indicates valor in combat'
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 10/13/2022 15:53 Comments || Top||

#14  Sounds like something he got for being the son of a politician, or else we'd be hearing about that work instead of how he was a lawyer working the burn pit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2022 16:28 Comments || Top||

#15  He served in Iraq and he died of cancer - could have been due to chemical exposure in Iraq. Less untruthful than most of Joe’s utterances.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/13/2022 16:59 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
US Supreme Court Overturns Pennsylvania Court – Rules that Ballots with Even Minor Flaws Cannot Be Counted in Elections
[GatewayPundit] The corrupt Democrats and RINOs can no longer include ballots with flaws in them in an election per the US Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court ruled that ballots with flaws in them cannot be counted in Pennsylvania elections.

The Conservative Brief reported yesterday:

The United States Supreme Court has sided with a Pennsylvania Republican in a ballot case for a judgeship.

The Supreme Court nixed a lower court ruling that allowed the counting of mail-in ballots that did not have the date on them, the Associated Press reported.

The justices vacated the ruling by the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as requested by David Ritter, who lost his 2021 bid for a spot on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas to a Democratic rival by five votes after 257 absentee ballots without date notations were counted.

The high court’s action means that the 3rd Circuit ruling cannot be used as a precedent in the three states covered by this regional federal appellate court – Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware – to allow the counting of ballots with minor flaws such as the voter failing to fill in the date.

The campaign for Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania recognized that the lower court’s ruling was in error and would negatively impact future elections in the state, so they joined David Ritter in his appeal.

But the campaign for Oz submitted a brief in support of judicial candidate David Ritter. “The Third Circuit’s thinly reasoned and erroneous decision — which addressed a county judicial election conducted more than six months ago — is now being weaponized to undermine the apparent result of a statewide primary election for the Republican nomination to represent Pennsylvania in the United States Senate,” his attorneys said.

In May, the three-judge panel on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that said election officials should count several hundred mail ballots that were received without a date on the envelopes in an election for county judge that was received on time, Politico reported.

Pennsylvania elections are a joke and have been for some time. In 2019 the state’s auditor reported on the abysmal state of the state’s election process.

Pennsylvania’s Election Process Was Confirmed as Not Being Accurate, Complete, or In Compliance with Laws by the State’s Auditor General in December 2019

For any doubters that the 2020 Election in Pennysylvania was a mess – just look at the videos in the article below.

PART I: Two Short Videos That Will Silence Any Doubters on Whether the 2020 Election Was Manufactured and Stolen

The 2020 Election in Pennsylvania should never have been certified for Joe Biden. Never.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wonderful in principle. In practice it will not be enforced.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/13/2022 9:00 Comments || Top||

#2  If it is not enforced, its grounds to file immediate action in federal court and not bother with the corrupt PA courts.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  without date notations
Who adds the date notations and at what point in the process? I would hate to see a partisan person suddenly forget to add date notations to absente ballots from the Navy or something.

if this is a date added by the voter then I agree 100% with the ruling.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/13/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||

#4  PA has already said it will not follow this SCOTUS guidance. Courts can’t hear cases on it until it has occurred, but by then ballots will have been separated from identity data and damage cannot be undone.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/13/2022 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  If he had done nothing else (and he did do a lot), I would be forever grateful to President Trump for the Supreme Court justices he appointed.
Posted by: Tom || 10/13/2022 15:23 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Buff DC deputy mayor resigns after alleged assault in gym parking lot
[NYPOST] The shredded Washington DC deputy mayor who was caught on camera allegedly grabbing a man by the throat in a gym parking lot earlier this month has resigned, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday.

Chris Geldart, the former DC Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice, had been on administrative leave after video footage circulated of him angrily confronting a trainer at the gym on Oct. 1. He was charged with assault and battery in the incident.

At a presser on Wednesday, Bowser said she was "saddened to say" that she had accepted Geldart’s resignation.

"I am proud of the work we’ve done together over the last eight years and I am immensely grateful to Chris for his service to the city," Bowser told news hounds. "Chris has been a very capable and effective public servant and I’ve gotten to know him over the years in several roles."

Geldart, 53, was appointed to his position by Bowser in January 2021, according to WUSA.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thug in a high gummint position in a blue city. Whodathunkit?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/13/2022 8:59 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess he believed in strictly enforcement of the gym’s machine wipe down policy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/13/2022 10:49 Comments || Top||


Elvis Chan: Cyber Conduit Between FBI and Big Tech
[AmericanGreatness] Election Day is four weeks away and barring some major catastrophe, Republicans are expected to make major gains in offices across the country and win a majority of seats in Congress. A stagnant economy, an unpopular occupant of the White House, reckless warnings of possible nuclear war, and a twisted fixation on mutilating and sexually tormenting children have Democrats on the ropes; even a criminal indictment of Donald Trump, which would be the biggest "October surprise" in political history, is unlikely to save Democrats from self-immolation on November 8.

So, Democrats are once again colluding with Big Tech to censor "disinformation" about the 2022 midterms. Of course, the definition of "disinformation" is open to interpretation—content hostile to the regime, naturally—but the FBI’s point man on the topic recently told reporters the bureau is on the lookout for wrongthink. Elvis Chan, an assistant special agent in charge responsible for the cyber branch of the FBI’s San Francisco field office, met with reporters last week to explain the nature of potential hijinks in the November election.

"People are trying to dispel the disinformation and misinformation that is going on; that there are things that are happening to the election. We don’t see any credible threats at this point," Chan told a San Francisco television reporter following an October 6 press briefing. "That’s not to say we aren’t monitoring them, we are."

Chan also said "federal agencies have their eye on misinformation and election lies that often spread through social media" but assured the voting public that "federal law enforcement agencies are sharing data with those social media platforms with the aim of combating election misinformation with the truth."

More at the link.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't think people should need any more information to vote right, should they?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/13/2022 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  More info needed about Dems ?

Not since FDR won a 4th term.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/13/2022 10:08 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden goes West on 3-state tour as midterm elections near
[An Nahar] Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
's three-state swing out West this week will capture, in a nutshell, the White House's midterm strategy for a president who remains broadly unpopular: promote his administration's accomplishments and appear where he can effectively rally the party faithful — all while continuing to rake in campaign cash.

Biden's first stop Wednesday is near Vail, Colorado, where he is to designate his administration's first national monument at the behest of Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, the state's senior senator who finds himself in a competitive reelection bid. Then the president will head to Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, where he will hold a pair of events promoting two of his most significant legislative achievements and headline a fundraiser for the House Democrats' campaign arm.

Finally, Biden will stop in Oregon, where Democrats' grip on the governor's mansion in Salem is being threatened by an unaffiliated candidate who has captured double-digit support in polling, giving an opening for a Republican to win the race outright in November.

"We've been very clear that the president is going to go out, the vice president is going to go out," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. "They're going to talk about the successes that we have seen in this administration in the last 19 months."

It's all part of a campaign blueprint fine-tuned over the last several months for Biden, who has been eager to travel the country but is facing the traditional midterm headwinds against the political party in power, an unsettled economic outlook and presidential approval ratings that have remained stubbornly underwater.

To counter Republican criticisms over the economy and inflation, Democratic candidates have highlighted accomplishments such as bipartisan infrastructure, manufacturing laws, and a sweeping climate, tax and health care package. Those achievements also helped prompt a late-summer uptick in Biden's own job performance ratings earlier this year.

Democratic candidates have also been far more likely to appear with Biden if it's an official White House event underscoring their achievements, such as the groundbreaking for a computer chip facility in suburban Ohio that was aided tremendously by the law that bolsters domestic semiconductor production.

That's the approach in Colorado, where the White House says Biden will speak about his administration's efforts to "protect, conserve, and restore some of America's most cherished lands and waters for the benefit of future generations."

Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was hoping he would visit Ohio in support of JD Vance Tim Ryan.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/13/2022 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  That's the approach in Colorado, where the White House says Biden will speak about his administration's efforts to supply ballots for distribution to illegal and out-of-state citizens.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2022 12:11 Comments || Top||

#3  30,000 last I heard; but you should by rule of thumb triple that number + inflation.

Back in my day, one would merely double the government lie.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2022 12:12 Comments || Top||

#4 

So....he does know where The Rio Grande is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/13/2022 13:12 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm surprised the candidates, don't say "Joe, would you mind staying home?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/13/2022 22:47 Comments || Top||


The New York Times' latest sad smear of Lee Zeldin on crime
[NYPOST] The New York Times

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

just hates that the news keeps proving Rep. Lee Zeldin right to focus on the state’s crime crisis — so it bashes him for highlighting it.

"Zeldin Seizes on Safety After Shooting at Home," reads Wednesday’s snarky print-edition headline atop the paper’s latest Zeldin hit job. Note the wording: He "seizes" (a favorite media slur of Republicans) on the issue, as if he somehow acted immorally for being outraged by a shooting that took place right outside his home while his daughters were inside doing homework.

The paper rips him for "quickly" assembling a news conference, doing a Fox News interview and using "an appearance at the Columbus Day Parade to imbue his political messaging with a new personal, if frightening, outlook."

Gee, what gall.

Never mind that this was the second time violence has personally affected the Zeldins just this year: In July, a man physically attacked Zeldin with a pointy weapon and had to be wrestled to the ground. The Times then disgustingly suggested, with zero evidence, that the attacker had been freed on no bail as part of a conspiracy to boost Zeldin’s drive to fix state bail laws.

Never mind, too, that violence happens to be Zeldin’s top priority and the attacks show vividly why he’s chosen to focus on it, so it’d be political malpractice not to highlight them.

Of course, the Times resorted to no such snark — no "Hochul seizes" — when Gov. Kathy Hochul used a May mass shooting in her hometown, Buffalo, to fundraise.

Zeldin is dead right to make crime a top issue. And that it’s affected him so personally does illustrate how out-of-control Hochul and her fellow Democrats have let violence spiral.

Voters should be grateful someone’s "seizing on safety," no matter how inconvenient for his opponent. If only she and the Times would "seize" on it, too.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He didn't quickly assemble a news conference. He was in his house when a bunch of "journalists" assembled themselves outside and began shouting for him to come out. He did and then got slammed by those same "journalists" for coming out to talk to them. Buttwipes.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/13/2022 9:40 Comments || Top||



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  Lukashenko claims that Ukraine is preparing an attack on Belarus
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