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DDHQ says at least 218 R (a majority) in next congress
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Posted by: lord garth || 11/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hold your breath until it's (R) 220
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2022 2:52 Comments || Top||

#2 

Until Brandon appoints her ambassador to Italy.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2022 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  With win in CA 27th it is now 219 for republicans
Posted by: Fat Bob Glavimp2368 || 11/16/2022 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  It was kind of Obama and the democrats to allow the Republicans win majority in the house.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 11/16/2022 9:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Does anyone remember Jumping Jim Jeffords?
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2022 11:09 Comments || Top||

#6  MSM is going bonkers over Trump's announcement that he will run again in 2024. CBS had their two minutes of hate this morning but will NOT report that the new House majority will be Republican.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#7  How many of the 218 are RINOs and likely to cross over?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/16/2022 23:16 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
WaPo Sheepishly Admits the FBI Found No Nuclear Secrets, or Anything Else, in Mar-a-Lago Raid
[PJMedia] There is nothing funnier than watching leftist Punchinellos beclown themselves over the latest “We’ve got Trump NOW!” hijinks.

Remember when the FBI raided Trump’s home supposedly looking for “nuclear secrets” a few months back? Guess how that turned out?

I’ll let the quislings at the Washinton Post spell it out:

Federal agents and prosecutors have come to believe former president Donald Trump’s motive for allegedly taking and keeping classified documents was largely his ego and a desire to hold on to the materials as trophies or mementos, according to people familiar with the matter.

In other words, Trump was keeping souvenirs, as everyone else does.

Funny how WaPo sat on that story until after the midterms, right?

But wait, there’s more!

That review has not found any apparent business advantage to the types of classified information in Trump’s possession, these people said. FBI interviews with witnesses so far, they said, also do not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets. Instead, the former president seemed motivated by a more basic desire not to give up what he believed was his property, these people said.

Not only did the FBI not find any nuclear bomb codes, but they also found no evidence that Trump was looking to “leverage, sell or use the government secrets.”

So Trump wasn’t selling nuclear secrets on Craigslist after all. Who knew? Everyone. And that likely includes the Department of Justice and the FBI.

Needless to say, WaPo couldn’t just admit the “Trump has nuclear secrets for sale” flapdoodle was the latest Hail Mary pass to send Trump to prison and that it proved to be another flaccid member of the “get Trump” orgy. They threw the idea in near the very end that they still might come up with something juicy:

The people familiar with the matter cautioned that the investigation is ongoing, that no final determinations have been made, and that it is possible additional information could emerge that changes investigators’ understanding of Trump’s motivations. But they said the evidence collected over a period of months indicates the primary explanation for potentially criminal conduct was Trump’s ego and intransigence.

Some liberals still haven’t gotten the message or are perhaps blatantly lying.

In other words, the “Trump is selling nuclear secrets” lie is over. He kept a few tchotchkes from his four years serving as the greatest president in recent history. The nerve!
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/16/2022 15:56 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  High Viz EFFBEYE raids as political theater, and the wonder why their reputation is crashing!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/16/2022 16:25 Comments || Top||

#2  The weaponized DOJ/FBI are worthless to the cause of LE and justice. Not to be trusted for anything.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/16/2022 23:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, it was reported they did find Melania's panties.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2022 23:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Cocaine Mitch reelected Senate GOP leader; Scott's bid rejected
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Mitch McConnell was reelected as Republican leader Wednesday, quashing a challenge from Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the Senate GOP campaign chief criticized over his party’s midterm election failures.

Retreating to the Capitol’s Old Senate Chamber for the private vote, Republicans had faced public infighting following a disappointing performance in last week’s elections that kept Senate control with Democrats.

McConnell, of Kentucky, easily swatted back the challenge from Scott in the first-ever attempt to oust him after many years as GOP leader. The vote was 37-10, senators said, with one other senator voting present. Senators first rejected an attempt by McConnell’s detractors to delay the leadership choice until after the Senate runoff election in Georgia next month.

"I’m not going anywhere," McConnell said after the vote that leaves him poised to become the Senate’s longest-serving leader when the new Congress convenes next year.

McConnell said he was "pretty proud" of the outcome as he acknowledged the work ahead.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2022 14:46 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In USSA, the GOPe is not here for you, you are here for them. And you will obey!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/16/2022 14:58 Comments || Top||

#2  ....public infighting following a disappointing performance in last week’s elections that kept Senate control with Democrats.

WTF! Er huh...failure rewarded. UniParty in Action. No need to consult with Trump or Desantis, let's just go ahead and set the pubs up for 2024 failure on day fok'ing one.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2022 15:00 Comments || Top||

#3  This is a rule that needs changed. The House and Senate majority leaders are elected right after the election. With the same scumbags that are voted out!

The new blood needs to be the votes that puts the leadership in place. Of course they haven't changed that as it keeps the good 'ol boys in charge and fuck the newcomers.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/16/2022 15:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Lets keep the same team that lost the best mid-term chance in history to stop the insane slide to the left of the marxist Bidet administration. Yeah, that the ticket!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/16/2022 16:33 Comments || Top||

#5  What do these two have in common - the GOPe Senate and Pennsylvania?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2022 19:17 Comments || Top||

#6  What do these two have in common - the GOPe Senate and Pennsylvania?

They both inhale furious amounts of establishment dick and corruption?
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/16/2022 22:49 Comments || Top||


Warnock's church foundation facing subpoena over missing registration
[WND] A church at which Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., on was staff, and which still pays him about $90,000 a year for "housing" while he has full employment as a U.S. senator, is getting into deeper trouble with the state, having missed a required deadline to provide information that was requested.

The Washington Free Beacon, whose investigation revealed not only the lack of a charities registration for a church foundation, but the fact the foundation that owns an apartment building was evicting tenants during COVID, explained that charities operating without registrations in Georgia can face civil fines, and even face being barred from raising funds.

The publication now reports that Warnock's church, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, has failed to respond to an Oct. 12 inquiry from the state into the issue of the charity registration.

Now the "Office of Secretary of State is weighing whether to file a subpoena against the group," the report said.

This issue involves the registration for the Ebenezer Building Foundation and the organization, which is controlled by Warnock's church, failed to answer questions from the state offices of Securities and Charities, which is in the secretary of state's jurisdiction.

"The state's threat of an investigative subpoena against Ebenezer's charity could pose problems for Warnock as he launches his runoff campaign against Republican challenger Herschel Walker," the report said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2022 07:02 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How can a Reverend, a claimed follower and preacher of the word of GOD. Belong to a Political Party that opposes GOD?

A Political Group that openly supports and promotes an immoral agenda and groups all in direct conflict with The Bible?


Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/16/2022 10:23 Comments || Top||

#2  See: Elmer Gantry
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2022 10:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I think many of them serve a different god. He has to hope that his god is not sleeping or on a journey during the runoff. It did not go well for the priests of Baal at Carmel when that happened. Less so on the Red Sea crossing.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2022 11:06 Comments || Top||

#4  It's simple. The church's favorite charity is Reverend Warnock.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2022 12:39 Comments || Top||

#5  MLK Jr was definitely against abortion.

How he would have felt about government restrictions on abortion is another issue.

Warnock, like many other Christian politicians, says he is personally against it but not in favor of government restrictions. Of course Warnock actually voted for a bill that would require Christian doctors to perform abortions and would have the government fund abortions.
Posted by: lord garth || 11/16/2022 20:52 Comments || Top||


Raphael Warnock Senator (D - GA) campaign financing
[Open Secrets] Raised: $98,654,186
Spent: $75,959,810
Cash on hand: $10,462,205
Debts: $0
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2022 04:19 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2022 4:29 Comments || Top||


Who's Really in Charge? John Fetterman's Wife Escorts Her Brain Damaged Husband to Capitol Hill
[Gateway] Who’s really in charge?

John Fetterman, a man with brain damage who lived off of mommy and daddy until he was 50, was ’elected’ to Pennsylvania’s open US Senate seat last week.

Fetterman can barely speak after his massive stroke in May.

He needs giant monitors and a stenographer typing out questions in real time in order to communicate.

MAIL - How the beloved uncle of John Fetterman's wife Gisele was a Brazilian spy whose illegal wiretaps triggered a political scandal and ministerial resignations


Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2022 03:31 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jeanne Carnahan II
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2022 3:37 Comments || Top||

#2  So we have progressed from foreign agent chauffeur to foreign agent wife ?

Has any of this been approved by Ghislaine's people ?

I wonder what type of challenges all of this will create for the granting of senator-elect Fetterman's security clearance ?

Somewhere, tiny little 'Fang Fang' fists are pounding a table.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2022 3:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Simply love the theater of the dems trying to seat her.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2022 4:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Re #1 - more like Edith Wilson who ran the country while Woodrow vegetated... come to think of it we have a more recent example....
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/16/2022 8:20 Comments || Top||

#5  This from his Wikipedia article - Fetterman expressed regret for having ignored his health; after the 2017 diagnosis with atrial fibrillation, he did not see a doctor for five years and did not continue medications.

So he's been dumb for a long time.

But - not to worry! The physician noted that Fetterman regularly attends speech therapy, routinely exercises, takes appropriate heart medications, and "has no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office."
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2022 8:40 Comments || Top||

#6  the 2017 diagnosis with atrial fibrillation

Untreated atrial fibrillation causes significant fatigue.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/16/2022 9:04 Comments || Top||

#7  The Machine.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#8  The talking donkey.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2022 10:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Those pics say it all. Hey, when does the dead guy show up?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/16/2022 12:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Biden let is slip when he told the wife she will make a great congresswoman.
Posted by: mossomo || 11/16/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Once Shapiro is Governor, Fetterman and the arrogant wife will discover they are disposable for some more competent radical to take the seat for 5 1/2 years. They pushed this brain-damaged clown over the finish line using every trick in their Philadelphia toolbox, but he/she are just theatrical placeholders now.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/16/2022 13:26 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ I like the idea of them being used as the trash they are and the Bernie Bois types who voted for it are flabbergasted by the turn of events.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||

#13  Edgar Fetterwoman.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2022 14:12 Comments || Top||


Right on Schedule for the Rump Congress-Biden Asks For 37 Billion More for Ukraine
[USNews] President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $37 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine, a massive infusion of cash that could help support the nation as Russian forces suffer battlefield losses in their nine-month-old invasion.

The administration's funding request, which comes as lawmakers begin their post-election session, also seeks $9.25 billion in COVID-19 funding to prepare for a possible winter surge and help combat the virus nationwide. Government funding expires in mid-December, and the Ukraine and COVID aid would be part of the package to fund the government through the end of September 2023.

The request for such a sizable amount of money for Ukraine comes as the GOP is poised to take control of the House following the midterm elections. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who is in line to become speaker, has warned that Republicans wouldn’t support writing a “blank check” for Ukraine if they capture the majority.
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Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Direct payment or FTX crypto routing ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2022 2:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Zelensky will try to grab all the territory he can before January when McCarthy tugs on his leash.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2022 12:47 Comments || Top||


#4  I haven't seen 1 word of how much aid is being sent to Florida for the hurricane victims.
Posted by: Chris || 11/16/2022 15:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Federal aid to Florida for Hurricane Ian tops $2B
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/16/2022 15:31 Comments || Top||



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