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-Lurid Crime Tales-
'Hey Poncho!' - Cocaine-Carrying Texas Dem Turns Himself In
Follow up to this story from a few days ago.
[Free Beacon] Texas Democratic state representative Alfonso "Poncho" Nevárez turned himself in Thursday after a video surveillance camera captured him dropping a cocaine-filled bag at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

"I do not have anyone to blame but myself," he said in a statement. "I accept this because it is true, and it will help me get better."

Nevárez was arrested and released with bond set at $10,000, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Surveillance footage from Sept. 6 revealed that he had dropped "a white paper object" as he walked out of the airport. Two Texas Department of Transportation employees found the envelope, and a later investigation determined that it contained cocaine.

Nevárez, who announced earlier this month that he would not seek reelection, confirmed the news on Thursday.

"In a weird way I am grateful. Grief and addiction were consuming me, but oddly enough, I feel better now than I have in a long time, and I mean that," Nevárez said, adding he would seek treatment for his addiction.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2019 07:58 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, bye.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/18/2019 10:07 Comments || Top||

#2  A ray of light and redemption for the democrats. If he can do it, you can too.

Drugs. All they leave of you goes Left.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/18/2019 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah... working on his DNC street creds I see.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/18/2019 10:48 Comments || Top||

#4  That Democrat cokehead Nevárez
Got caught on a ghat in Benares.
The police asked him, "Why
Have you come here to die?"
"It seemed better than living in Juarez."
Posted by: Greting Phuse8402 || 11/18/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#5  "It was a campaign contribution from Hunter Biden"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2019 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  The Congressman's stint was aborted
When his felonies, although rather sordid
Caused the political class
To smirk, "Why--alas!
Better deported than snorted" [or reported]
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 11:00 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
University and College Union Says Anyone Can ‘Self-Identify’ as Black
[BREITBART] The University and College Union (UCU) has declared that anyone can “self-identify” as “black, disabled, LGBT+ or women”.

“UCU has a long history (from predecessor unions) of enabling members to self-identify whether that is being black, disabled, LGBT+ or women [sic],” a six-page position statement from the union, which “represents over 120,000 academics, lecturers, trainers, instructors, researchers, managers, administrators, computer staff, librarians and postgraduates in universities, colleges, prisons, adult education and training organisations across the UK.”

“UCU supports the right of all women (including trans women) to safe spaces… UCU also supports a social, rather than a medical, model of gender recognition that will help challenge repressive gender stereotypes in the workplace and in society,” the statement added.

The document focused primarily on gender like this, but that reference to “enabling members to self-identify whether that is being black, disabled, LGBT+ or women” was repeated three times.
I would say that self-identifying as disabled would be fraud. Of course, I'd call Rachel Dolezal a fraud, and Elizabeth Warren a fraud. If you call yourself a woman while you still have a dangling participle, I think that's fraudulent, too, but obviously I'm old-fashioned.

Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Great! Where's my reparations and cushy civil service gig?
Posted by: charger || 11/18/2019 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/18/2019 1:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Can I self identify as a tenured professor?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/18/2019 4:19 Comments || Top||

#4  The trouble is this ruins their sinecures for their mirror world racism.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/18/2019 4:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Self-identifying as someone who you are not doesn't work. For example, see Pocahontas or Rachel Anne Dolezal.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2019 7:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes, but 200 points are deducted from your SAT.
Posted by: Slomomp Shaper6028 || 11/18/2019 8:13 Comments || Top||

#7  I self-identify as an asshole.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/18/2019 8:36 Comments || Top||

#8  If I self-identify as black, can I get a scholarship?
Posted by: gorb || 11/18/2019 9:10 Comments || Top||

#9  I self identify as a Martian. It says so on the last census form.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/18/2019 9:41 Comments || Top||

#10  In all seriousness, this is precisely the scam that most of our Ivy League and other elite university affirmative action recipients fall back on.

People like Fartacus, Zero, KamalHo, young Ms Jeralyn Luther of Yale (aka the screaming c--t whose deranged tantrum led to a pussified Yale president's railroading of two tenured and beloved Yale professors)-- all of these despicable con artists are biracial, not "black."

They're the spawn of extremely well-off families who faced no disadvantage or suffered any grievance whatsoever. KamalHo's Jamaican dad recently told an interview that his grandfather owned slaves!

Affirmative action is a hustle. Long outlived it's shelf life, and needs to be shut down.
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 10:07 Comments || Top||

#11  Well, the Settled Science(tm) says we all originated in Africa.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2019 11:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Pro2K, it is our family oral history this whole move to Europe started when cousin Oog took the families prized hand ax and broke it! Great how many times Grandpapa said how can an idiot break a rock? Whe are moving as far as wr can go to get away from these morons!
Then there is the story about the traveling flint trader and the Neanderthals, that's a real hoot too,
Posted by: Bugs Prince of the Danes7415 || 11/18/2019 14:05 Comments || Top||

#13  Here's your chance to join Lambda Lambda Lambda.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 11/18/2019 19:24 Comments || Top||

#14  Morons. They haven't thought this through at all. I have a daughter with Down syndrome. I've been saving for her to attend a two year special education program at our local state college since she was three: a little bit out of each paycheck for years. They only take a dozen or so students each year, so it's kind of a long shot. I accept that.

But if in a few years I find out that she didn't get a spot because somebody "self-identified" as disabled got it, there WILL be hell to pay. In court, in editorials, and in elections. I swear this on Crom's Wheel of Pain.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/18/2019 20:24 Comments || Top||

#15  My best to you and your daughter, SM.
Glad to see you're ready and willing to lawyer up.
Only court precedents will kill this idiocy.
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 21:03 Comments || Top||


Elitist Bill Maher Trashes 'Hate'-Filled Conservatives as 'A**holes You Can't Stand'
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Real Time host Bill Maher concluded his satirical segment "New Rules" on Friday by advising his audience to "just celebrate Thanksgiving, don’t try to win it." At first glance, his closing monologue might have seemed like words of wisdom for those who "see politics so differently from people who share your very blood." But it quickly turned into a rant against "hate"-filled "rubes" and "Bible thumpers," in other words, conservatives.

After unveiling his tip, Maher proceeded to advise his viewers to "never forget the single shining truth about democracy: it means sharing a country with assholes you can’t stand." Maher made it perfectly clear that he was talking about conservatives.

According to Maher, "we have to accept something about people: half of them have their taste in their ass." He continued to mock and stereotype conservatives: "they eat sweet potatoes with marshmallows, they wear matching family outfits, and put nuts on their truck."

Nothing seemed to upset Maher more about conservatives than their support for President Trump. As a picture of the President supposedly mocking a disabled news hound appeared in the background, Maher expressed his bewilderment that "46 percent of the country wanted that guy picking the Supreme Court." Eventually, Maher informed the audience that despite their intense dislike for those on the other side of the aisle, "we’re stuck with them and they’re stuck with us."

It's beyond strange for Bill Maher to disdain knocking your opponents with harsh words, as he demonstrated.

Trump rallies are filled with words like "enemies of the people," "human scum." They talk of people to be locked up. Well, you can’t lock all us up. Liberals are described as weak, lame, coddling, oversensitive, and limp-dicked.

Which are strong words for a bunch of mouth-breathers, shit-kickers, knuckle-draggers, Bible -thumpers, sister-fuckers and rubes.

The cheers and applause that followed made Maher’s point. That kind of insult is rewarded. And it’s made Maher very rich for doing it over and over and over again.

Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  assholes you can't stand

Such a way with words. How can this witless moron ibe considered an elitist when he can't come up with more intelligent insults than an illiterate 13 year-old?
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Bill Maher does not have any views of his own. He's a simple-minded whore with a sense for what the political masters want. I guess that passes for 'elitist' now, the elite being Dems.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/18/2019 4:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Projecting his hate there...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/18/2019 4:53 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: 3dc || 11/18/2019 5:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I would be interested in knowing who he is sharing his Vegan Thanksgiving dinner with this year.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/18/2019 6:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Shutting down the feed-back loop. When everything is falling apart and people are dying in the civil war, "Can we talk about this" ain't going to happen.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2019 7:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Maher has mistaken a lot of people for giving a $hit about what he says.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2019 7:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Maher is short-man-syndrome made flesh
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/18/2019 7:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Just remember those words Bill, when the hot war kicks off and you have no food, water or electricity in your mansion because all those things are in those "Hate filled Asshole" areas.

Die alone, of hunger, in the dark.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/18/2019 8:06 Comments || Top||

#10  And cold.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/18/2019 10:19 Comments || Top||

#11  Self-hating dwarfish vapid little cuck.

It's been a damned good scam though. Lots of idiots out there willing to laugh at the yuckster's stupid yucks.
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 10:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Who is this guy and what network is he on?? Never mind, I don't know or really care. And while I don't hang stuff off my hitch, I do love my truck, and country, and bible, and thanksgiving.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/18/2019 10:31 Comments || Top||

#13  “Pay attention to meeeeee!!”

The self-proclaimed libertarian, which he isn’t, periodically has outbursts like this, possibly a sort of Tourette syndrome. Past outbursts got his Politically Correct show banished from ABC; since then his show has lived in an obscure corner of HBO.

But he frequently interviews conservatives on his show — always has — and that is probably the only exposure those on his side of the aisle get to hear people like Ben Shapiro and Milo Yiannopoulos unfiltered.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2019 15:29 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
King Co. Executive defends Sanctuary Policies while kids are killed.
In which King County Executive Dow Constantine, tells everyone that the feelings of illegal aliens are far, far, more important then the lives of their kids.
[KOMONews] SEATTLE - Blowback is mounting over three separate murders that might have been prevented, but immigration officials say sanctuary policies got in the way.

The cases involve killings in South Park, Auburn, and Bellevue. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the people who have been arrested are in the country illegally. ICE officials add that in the past they tried to take them into custody but local officials refused to help.

A man whose son was murdered said his boy might still be alive if King County officials had notified ICE when they had the chance.

Now, the ashes of Juan Carlos Con Guzman are the first thing his father sees when he walks through the front door.

"They take all my love. They broke my heart. Broke everything," said Juan Carlos Con Chiquin.

Before being arrested for murder, immigration officials said one of the men suspected in Guzman's death was in custody for auto theft. ICE asked the King County Jail to let them know when he'd be released. That notification never came and now Guzman is dead.

"They need to change a little bit," Chiquin said.

Because of his son, Chiquin believes local officials need to rethink sanctuary policies when it involves people who commit serious crimes.

There are two other homicide cases involving undocumented immigrants. One is charged with shooting into a home in South Park and killing a father as he sat on his couch. The third case led to a teenager being killed in a Bellevue park.

Bryan Wilcox, a deputy field officer director for ICE, said his agency sought detainers to hold the people involved before these crimes were committed but were ignored.

"In these circumstances, they (need to) work more hard and together," Chiquin said.

While these examples are tragic, sanctuary policies have also helped many immigrants illegal aliens feel more comfortable reaching out to police about threats in the community. reaching out and killing kids and others in the community. (FIFY) However, there is a feeling that some sort of balance needs to be struck. Ultimately, any change in King County would have to come from the county council.

King County Executive Dow Constantine released a statement:

"ICE is now on a public relations offensive against jurisdictions that follow the rule of law, alerting the media to instances when agents send civil Immigration Detainers that are prohibited by county policy.
A lie - ICE isn't asking for detention - but to be notified when they criminal is released. Never mind that federal law Trumps county policy.
ICE is fully aware that if they present a valid criminal warrant issued by a U.S. District Court Judge or Magistrate, the county would comply. To be clear, we do not hold people against their will in our detention facilities unless ordered to do so by a judge.
I'm sure all the criminals who you arrest, without a judges explicit orders, appreciate that. Why do you have that jail again?
We will continue to honor the Constitution, rather than the extrajudicial orders of any person, including the President."
Lets not mention that ICE isn't asking you to detain anyone - just let them know when they are being released. He knows this. King County Executive Dow Constantine is Lying - but then he's a Democrat.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/18/2019 08:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry - the ending of that was messed up. Missed 'preview' and hit 'submit'. :(.
Remove the aritical if necessary.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/18/2019 9:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Fixed. There was a missing /. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2019 9:40 Comments || Top||

#3  These "sanctuary"-supporting bastards are guilty of aiding and abetting murder. When will they face justice?
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 10:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Thank you TW - for lack of a slash...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/18/2019 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Isn't there some kind of database that's updated automatically when a release is ordered ? Something an ICE sub-dept, or contracted agency can keep checking with periodically.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/18/2019 10:40 Comments || Top||

#6  What is it the gun grabbers like to say? NRA members "have blood on their hands?" Well, all you Dow Constantine voters, you have blood on your hands. Like it?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/18/2019 11:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Prosecute them. They really do bear responsibility for murder.
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 11:08 Comments || Top||

#8  In this day and age, that database should be automated and ICE agents should get push notifications on their work cellphones that someone on the list is about to be sprung.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/18/2019 11:08 Comments || Top||

#9  How about if conservatives funded a community administrated app to check this, tied up with ICE. The jails cannot deny any information requested by civs can they ? Besides, they wouldn't have to check with the prisons, just the county judges ordering the releases and update the db.

I may be ill informed about the specifics of how it works there, but the wily liberals would find a way for such a minor hassle. I think we can too ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/18/2019 11:26 Comments || Top||

#10  U.S. Code Title 18 § 2384. Seditious conspiracy

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

Damn close in my book
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2019 11:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Time to declare these counties in sedition and send in the US Marshals to arrest the politicians and police that refuse to uphold the law.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/18/2019 12:49 Comments || Top||

#12  In this day and age, that database should be automated and ICE agents should get push notifications on their work cellphones that someone on the list is about to be sprung.

Maybe time to Freedom Of Information Act their sorry asses. It is a matter of community interest after all. Wankers would probably put up a web page rather than giving us a nice REST interface, but hey, it ain't the first screen we've scraped.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/18/2019 14:05 Comments || Top||


Son Of House Speaker Pelosi Made Money In Ukraine (short video)
[One America News] Reports have suggested the son of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have used her position to benefit financially. One America’s Kara McKinney has more.
That’s Paul Pelosi, Jr., fourth child and only son of the House speaker.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2019 06:36 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ukraine = cookie jar for a lot of Dems
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2019 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Here comes the "everybody does it" defense.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/18/2019 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Shitshow Part 190.

Anyone else get the sense that Paul Pelosi's mom is losing her mind? She's clinically senile.
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 9:58 Comments || Top||

#4  There's gotta be a reason why it's always Ukraine.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/18/2019 10:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Ukraine = Africa with white faces.

The Shitshow's Shitshow.

= Where the political class's wastrel younger sons are sent to plunder and whore.
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 10:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, that explains why she changed her stand on impeachment.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/18/2019 13:07 Comments || Top||


Bill Richardson: Democrats Heading Toward Brokered Convention, Could Nominate Michelle Obama
[BREITBART] BILL RICHARDSON: I believe we are headed toward a brokered convention for the following reason. There’s a total of 4,600 delegates that are out there, 3,800 are pledged. But these superdelegates, 785, could be the margin of victory. They can’t vote until after the second ballot. But If you look at the top tier, Mayor Pete, Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
, Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
, Bernie Sanders
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Giggle.

Shitshow Part 188.
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  You ever notice you never see a picture of Bill Richardson and George Conway in the same place together?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/18/2019 6:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Would she run on her husband's legacy? Braahhhhaaa.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2019 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  There’s a total of 4,600 delegates that are out there, 3,800 are pledged.
Does the total ballot box burst when they vote two or three times out of habit?
Posted by: magpie || 11/18/2019 15:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Last time, when the super-delegates handed the Democratic party nomination to Hillary Clinton, the Bernie contingent was furious; many stayed home. This time, if the delegates conspire to ignore the admittedly muddled will of the Democratic primary voters to give the nomination to someone who didn’t even run — whether Mrs. Barack Obama or Mrs. Bill Clinton — what odds still more will stay home?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/18/2019 15:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Kind of super-early for this kind of thing isn't it?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/18/2019 16:08 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 Kind of super-early for this kind of thing isn't it?

Shitshow Never Sleeps
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 16:42 Comments || Top||

#8  So when you stir the shit, do you go clockwise or counter-clockwise?
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/18/2019 17:51 Comments || Top||

#9  The dem bowl always swirls to the left
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/18/2019 17:58 Comments || Top||

#10  Cuckoo clock-wise
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 18:57 Comments || Top||


Buttigieg Under Fire for Exaggerating Black Support
More on this story from yesterday.
[BREITBART] South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
is under fire for allegedly faking black support in a campaign email in late October that claimed 400 African-Americans in South Carolina had endorsed his "Douglass Plan" for equality.

The Douglass Plan, named for the (Republican) former slave and abolitionist, proposes a variety of policies aimed at helping black Americans, alongside a committee to study the issue of reparations, which Buttigieg also backs.

The plan is partly aimed at addressing Buttigieg’s persistent weakness among black voters, which is partly the result of difficulties in his relationship with the black community in South Bend. He fired the city’s first black police chief, then faced criticism from the black community after an officer-involved shooting earlier this year. When he tried to make amends by accusing the police department of racism, he faced criticism from law enforcement as well.

Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Probably not the first time he's faked having something big and black behind him.
Posted by: charger || 11/18/2019 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Are the Dems or the Pubs going after Buttigieg?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  No way this nonentity wins S Carolina.
The Dems are headed toward a brokered convention.
Trump will win easily if his people in PA WI MI and elsewhere get out the vote.
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  When he doesn't get nominated the sour grapes will be that many voters are "homophobic" and should be denied the right to vote.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/18/2019 12:35 Comments || Top||


Open Society Kept Alleged ‘Whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella Updated on George Soros’s Personal Ukraine Activities
[BREITBART] Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, received emails about Ukraine policy from a top director at George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
’s Open Society Foundations.

The emails informed Ciaramella and a handful of other B.O. regime foreign policy officials about Soros’s whereabouts, the contents of Soros’s private meetings about Ukraine and a future meeting the billionaire activist was holding with the prime minister of Ukraine.

A primary recipient of the Open Society emails along with Ciaramella was then-Assistant Secretary of State for Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Affairs Victoria Nuland, who played a central role in the anti-Trump dossier affair. Nuland, with whom Ciaramella worked closely, received updates on Ukraine issues from dossier author Remington Christopher Steele in addition to her direct role in facilitating the dossier within the B.O. regime.

The emails spotlight Soros’s access to national security officials under the B.O. regime on the matter of Ukraine.

In one instance, Jeff Goldstein, senior policy analyst for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations, sent a June 9, 2016 email to Nuland and Ciaramella, who were the missive’s primary recipients.

CC’d were three other State Department officials involved in European affairs, including Alexander Kasanof who worked at the U.S. embassy in Kiev.

Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: 3dc || 11/18/2019 5:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Why is this criminal Soros at the bottom of so much of the chaos and unrest in the U.S. and world?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2019 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Can't we find some photos of ugly Eric with people who don't make him look so good?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/18/2019 10:14 Comments || Top||

#4  If you hadn't added the fourth photo (with Fauxcahontas) I'd have thought the dude was wearing a Dollar Store plastic fake-big-nose-and-hornrims set.
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Some smart investigator should be able to find something, anything, that Soros has done in violation of some law somewhere in the books and nail his ass to the wall with it. Surely a man with so many fingers in so many pies has violated some statute somewhere along the line. How about RICO?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/18/2019 10:45 Comments || Top||


Al Sharpton gets $1M in pay from his own charity
[NYPost] The Rev. Al Sharpton raked in $1,046,948 from his own charity last year, according to National Action Network’s latest tax filings obtained by The Post.
Pay yer taxes ya deadbeat racist grifting POS
Sharpton got a $324,000 salary — 32% higher than his 2017 pay — in addition to a $159,596 bonus and $563,352 in “other compensation.”

The Harlem-based nonprofit — which Sharpton controls as president and CEO — said the extra cash was to make up for the years from 2004 to 2017 when he didn’t get his full pay.

NAN said it hired an executive compensation firm that determined the good reverend was owed $1.252 million — but he was generously willing to take $500,000 less.
Golly. A soul as big as the whole outdoors, that man.
Sharpton and the nonprofit’s board also agreed “he has now been fully compensated for all the years he was underpaid and received no bonus,” the NAN statement said.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Charity starts and stops at home." ... FIFY ...
Posted by: magpie || 11/18/2019 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  It begins at "homie".
Posted by: charger || 11/18/2019 0:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Was it on the charities' books as owing before he decided he wanted to rip it off?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/18/2019 5:48 Comments || Top||

#4  "Holy mackerel"
~ The famous series from the early 1950's and Hollywood author and co-star of this quote are seldom mentioned anywhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/18/2019 7:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Left-wing charities financially better than being a Dem office-holder? (Rhetorical question)
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2019 7:44 Comments || Top||

#6  It seems his favorite charity is himself.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/18/2019 10:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Amos 'n' Andy were talented professional clowns, Besoeker.

Sharpton is a murderous grifter. The man has bloody hands. He encouraged riots that killed people in Brooklyn back in the day, and he's enabled felony-committing fraudsters for decades.

Nothing better shows the disgusting moral rot of our Shitshow than the procession of Democratic prez-aspirant clowns lining up to lick this despicable murderer's arse
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 10:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Ah ! Al Sharpton. A prize sonofabitch wakandan if ever there was one.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/18/2019 11:09 Comments || Top||


Ilhan Omar funneled another $150K to alleged lover's consulting group
[NY Post] Rep. Ilhan Omar paid another $150,000 to Tim Mynett's political consulting group in the three months after The Post first revealed allegations the pair were romantically involved, records show.

The 37-year-old Minnesota congresswoman's campaign has funneled $146,712.63 to Mynett's E Street Group since The Post in August reported allegations she was having an affair with her paid consultant, records show.

The latest payments to Mynett's group were for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and video production.

When news of the alleged affair broke, Omar had already paid $223,000 through her campaign since 2018 for fundraising consulting, internet advertising, digital communications, and travel expenses to the E Street Group ‐ taking the latest total to $370,000.

But the federal agency charged with probing the campaign finance complaint against Omar is powerless to act because it doesn't have enough commissioners on the bench to investigate.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My but these woke congressgirls are easy with official funds. First Batshita gets her campaign to pay her rent 'n' cheetos bill. Now the Somali Seductress pays liver boy's rent with official dough.

Squad Pro Se. And more fer me!
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  * lover boy's
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 0:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Now, now, lex - the guy works hard for his money.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/18/2019 1:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Ha ha !

Lex, a 'liver boy' is a young man some rich fucks will acquire from traffickers, for when they need a transplant in case of cirrhosis.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/18/2019 1:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Actually only bold crimes.
Small stuff while the other representatives steal millions and maybe billions with better crafted looting schemes.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/18/2019 5:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Remember when congressmen got popped for abusing franking privileges? Simpler times.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/18/2019 6:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Jihad or grand theft one dollar at a time?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2019 7:47 Comments || Top||

#8  She is above the law. And she knows it.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/18/2019 10:06 Comments || Top||

#9  It's almost axiomatic that whatever these shitheads accuse Trump and his retinue of doing is precisely what they themselves have done.

"Believed himself to be above the law" - check.
"Abused his office" - check.
"Worked with a foreign government to allow them to intervene in an election" - check.
"Tampered with witnesses" - check [cf Blowsey Ford and the Yale women who were suborned to lie about Kavanaugh].
etc
etc
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 10:12 Comments || Top||

#10  "Is a sexist debauch" - check.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/18/2019 10:57 Comments || Top||

#11  "Committing perjury" - check.

"Conspiring with Russian leaders to undermine US interests" - check [cf. Zero's ludicrously incompetent performance with then-Pres. Medvedev of Russia in March 2012, captured nicely on a hot mic]
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 11:07 Comments || Top||


Pete Buttigieg surges to first place in Iowa, new poll shows
[CNN] There is a new Democratic front-runner in Iowa, and his name is Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, holds a clear lead in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, climbing to 25% in a new CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of likely Iowa caucusgoers. That marks a 16-point increase in support for Buttigieg since the September CNN/DMR poll. This survey comes on the heels of other recent polls that have shown Buttigieg joining the top tier of the Democratic primary race in Iowa.

Behind Buttigieg, there is a close three-way battle for second with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
at 16%, and former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
each at 15%. Since September, Warren dropped six percentage points and Biden slipped five points, while Sanders gained four points.

Posted by: Fred || 11/18/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not the first time he's experienced a surge from something pronounced "poll".
Posted by: charger || 11/18/2019 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  In a general election none of these leaders would get more than the base %28 making Mondale look like a great vote attraction.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/18/2019 5:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump 2020 it is then.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/18/2019 5:48 Comments || Top||

#4  The polls wrong or are there lot of gay farmers in Iowa? Or Buttigieg sounds the least crazy among a Party of people who are totally bonkers?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/18/2019 7:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, Iowa is cornhole country...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/18/2019 8:28 Comments || Top||

#6  They must have limited the polling to Iowa City and downtown Des Moines.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/18/2019 8:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Right. Why would they poll Republicans? Or moderates?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/18/2019 10:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Don't blame Iowans. Look at the guy's competition.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/18/2019 10:51 Comments || Top||

#9  Brokeback Prairie
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 11:09 Comments || Top||

#10  The 2017 African American population in Iowa. African Americans constitute 3.8% of the state’s total population.

I blame white (Donk) privilege!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/18/2019 11:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Or Buttigieg sounds the least crazy among a Party of people who are totally bonkers?

You nailed it. Compared to his competitors, Mayor Pete comes off at competent, moderate, patriotic, and sane.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/18/2019 20:33 Comments || Top||

#12  Can't win the nomination without African-American voters. They won't pull the lever for a Bu-Fu. They're the most socially conservative Dems, by far.
Posted by: Lex || 11/18/2019 21:10 Comments || Top||



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