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-Lurid Crime Tales-
DOJ Accuses Gov't Shelter Contractor of Sexual Abuse of Hundreds of Migrant Kids
[Breitbart] The Justice Department is alleging that employees of one of the federal government’s largest shelter operators have engaged in hundreds of cases of sexual abuse of unaccompanied migrant children housed in their care.

On Thursday, the DOJ announced an investigation into employees of Southwest Key Programs Inc., including supervisors, who have been accused of sexually molesting, raping, and exploiting migrant children beginning in 2015. At least two employees have already been indicted on criminal charges relating to a case from 2020, the Associated Press reported.

Southwest Key Programs Inc. is one of several companies that contract with the federal government to house migrant children and the organization operates 29 shelters in Texas, Arizona, and California. It reportedly has a capacity of more than 1,000 children. The shelters house the children for the time between their arrival illegally into the U.S., and the time the feds farm the children out to other people or agencies. The non-profit has been awarded more than $3 billion in Health and Human Services federal contracts between 2015 and 2023.

According to the DOJ, employees of these shelters were exploiting kids and threatening them if they talked about their abuse.

“In some cases, Southwest Key employees threatened children to maintain their silence,” the DOJ lawsuit states. “In harassing these children, these Southwest Key employees exploited the children’s vulnerabilities, language barriers, and distance from family and loved ones.”

The DOJ has pinpointed more than 100 cases of sexual abuse, but they assume there are even more. The lawsuit alleges that children as young as eight years old — both boys and girls — have been victimized. In one case, an employee allegedly abused three young girls and in another an employee took an 11-year-old boy to a hotel and forced him to perform sexual acts for several days.

Officials say the children were threatened with physical violence and also were told their families back home would be harmed if they did not comply with demands for sex and then stay silent about the abuse.

Biden’s regime has been repeatedly accused of aiding human trafficking for the sex trade.

In March, Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd held a press conference and pointed out that Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security facilitates sex trafficking by allowing illegal migrants to travel by air for free with vouchers and ID cards that force airlines to fly them without charge and on demand.

Sheriff Judd revealed that an investigation by his department found that Venezuelan women who are based out of New York City have told police that they are prostituted by fellow illegals and that they fly for free to most of America’s big cities to ply the sex trade. The exploited women also say they are indebted for thousands of dollars to the coyotes who have brought them to the U.S.A. So, they are essentially indentured sex slaves.

Judd also announced in March that they had arrested 21 suspected illegals among the 228 people arrested for sex trafficking.

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2024 09:11 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Check didn't clear?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2024 18:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Strange. They never had a problem with. Epstein's Little St. James Island.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2024 18:48 Comments || Top||


Hawley: Briefing with Secret Service Director 'Did Not Go Well' ‐ 'She Was Not Well-Prepared'
[Breitbart] During an appearance on FNC’s “Your World,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) called on Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle to publicly appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Joe Biden.

The Missouri Republican called out Cheatle, who he said was “not well-prepared” to answer questions during a “behind-the-scenes” briefing.

Partial transcript as follows:

CAVUTO: How did it go?

HAWLEY: Badly.

I mean, let’s be honest, the Secret Service is out there and the FBI now doing these secret calls, these behind-the-scenes briefings, where, by the way, they don’t really answer questions. They limited — strictly limited the number of questions. The Secret Service director herself did not actually brief. She was present on the call, but didn’t do hardly any briefing.

When she did try to answer a question or two, it did not go well. She was not well-prepared. This needs to be done in public, bottom line. We need public hearings. We need a full and thorough investigation.

Neil, what we know about this is that there were 62 minutes, 62, between the time that the Secret Service identified the shooter as a person of interest, somebody acting suspiciously, and the time he started firing shots at the president.

I mean, what in the world is going on? We have got to find out.

CAVUTO: I misspoke. Of course, that briefing was yesterday. There are going to be many more to come. You want to hold the authorities accountable and find out what was behind their thinking.

But, to your point, Senator, she has indicated she’s not stepping down. She intends to stay there. And unless the president and/or Alejandro Mayorkas, her boss at Homeland Security, pushes her out, she’s there, right?

HAWLEY: Yes.

Nobody — here’s the pattern, Neil. Nobody in this administration is ever responsible, ever takes any responsibility for anything. Look at Afghanistan, 13 service members dead, hundreds, if not thousands of civilians left behind to the enemy. And what did Joe Biden do? Nothing. Who was fired? Nobody.

Now we have got a former president nearly assassinated. We have a good American shot to death at this rally, others in critical condition, and no one will take any responsibility. I mean, these people ought to be gone. Absolutely, the director ought to be gone. The whole top echelon ought to be gone.

But I tell you what. We’re going to get to the bottom of this and figure out what these people were doing. How did they allow this to happen? Why did they allow a good American to be killed? Why did they allow Trump to go on stage knowing they had a potential shooter? It’s outrageous.


Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2024 00:31 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stochastic terrorism
is targeted political violence that has been instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, this is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence.[1] A key element is the use of social media and other distributed forms of communications where the person who carries out the violence has no direct connection to the users of violent rhetoric.
Nowadays upgraded by reducing the target's security.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/20/2024 4:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Cheater is offering up such egregious stuff that you sort of assume that the stuff that they are hiding must look like Amy Winehouse trying to put on makeup after a keg party.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2024 5:58 Comments || Top||

#3  "Not well prepared" seems to be Cheatle's operational plan.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/20/2024 8:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Donald Trump Jr. Reacts to Shooter Flying Drone over Rally
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2024 9:07 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Sheila Jackson Lee dead at 74
[NYPOST] Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
...the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome...
died at 74, her family announced on Friday, just two months after the longtime politician revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer.

The Democratic congresswoman, who served Texas’ 18th District since 1995, recently announced in June she was battling pancreatic cancer.

"A local, national, and international humanitarian, she was acknowledged worldwide for her courageous fights for racial justice, criminal justice, and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
, with a special emphasis on women and kiddies," a statement from her family said.

Posted by: Fred Skidmark Frank G || 07/20/2024 2024-07-20 00:41 || Comments || Link || [11143 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Steroids and treatments may have played in to her abusiveness as a boss.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2024 5:50 Comments || Top||

#2 
But one has to admit, she was the classic example of what the Democrat Party had become and now is.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/20/2024 6:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Vile and revolting woman. Popping the champagne.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/20/2024 6:36 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 - she's been an entitled arrogant abusive and ignorant asshole most of her public life. That didn't just start now.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2024 6:38 Comments || Top||

#5  She's so big, she'll cross several circles down there.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2024 6:40 Comments || Top||

#6  At least she'll be among friends.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2024 6:58 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Early Mod Snark O' The Day candidate
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2024 7:09 Comments || Top||

#8  #6: and may many more soon join her.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 07/20/2024 8:16 Comments || Top||

#9  I do not gloat on other's misfortunes.
But I'm glad she's gone.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/20/2024 8:23 Comments || Top||

#10  Anyway.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/20/2024 8:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Don't worry, she'll be voting democrat for many, many years to come.
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 07/20/2024 9:09 Comments || Top||

#12  Well, bye!
Posted by: SteveS || 07/20/2024 10:11 Comments || Top||

#13  Bon Voyage biotch.
Posted by: Unuth Spaviger7322 || 07/20/2024 14:43 Comments || Top||

#14  Finally, a ray of sunshine!
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/20/2024 15:09 Comments || Top||

#15  In other news.. there is a big Texas used hat sale going on now
Posted by: Airandee || 07/20/2024 16:55 Comments || Top||

#16  pancreatic cancer
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/20/2024 22:52 Comments || Top||

#17  "Let us cross over the river and wrest a mass of maleable morons from Satan's complacent, gentlemanly sway."
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 07/20/2024 23:17 Comments || Top||

#18  Or even with double toothpicks. Perfidious Iberia!
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 07/20/2024 23:21 Comments || Top||

#19  You are a very silly person, Pancho Poodle8452.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2024 23:40 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
AI created video Musk just reposted showing Trump, Biden, Obama and ...
Posted by: 3dc || 07/20/2024 15:43 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Joint Chiefs chairman says it would be 'great' if Trump ends Russia-Ukraine war quickly
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2024 09:45 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Voter ID ballot initiative signatures validated in Nevada, and other election integrity moves

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2024 09:43 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:


Who could be Harris' VP if Biden drops out of presidential race?
[GEO.TV] US Vice President Kamala Harris is on the Democratic forefront to become the party’s presidential race nominee if President Joe Biden stepped down as the presidential candidate.

Harris has earned favour of the Democrats after Biden’s weak debate performance against former president Donald Trump in June.

This has resulted in the Democrats - publicly and privately - pressuring Biden to step down from the race and aiming their support for VP Harris who was named Biden’s running mate for his election campaign.

Polls conducted by The Economist also suggest that 79% of the Democrats would support Harris if she is to replace Biden for the upcoming election in November.

If Harris is elected as the party’s nominee in the wake of Biden stepping down, then it would leave another seat vacant and that is of the running mate.

Following are some candidates Harris can pick as her running mate if Biden steps down and she is nominated for the presidential election candidacy:
These are besides AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary, and Sheila Jackson Lee.
ROY COOPER
Roy Cooper is the Governor of North Carolina and has known Harris since they were attorney general of North Carolina and California, respectively.

Cooper has also run on a ticket against Trump and won twice. In 2016, he won by opposing a bill that would have banned transgenders from using public restrooms as per their gender and in 2020, he was reelected on the basis of managing the state during the COVID-19 epidemic.

JOSH SHAPIRO
Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro is a popular political figure and strange as well as many Republicans support him. He has handled several crisis during his tenure including the train incident in East Palestine, Ohio which is at the borders of the state he governs; Pennsylvania.

The 1-95 bridge in the State of Pennsylvania collapsed in 2023, Shapiro handled that incident quickly and the bridge was reconstructed immediately.

He has also won against Trump when the former president sued Pennsylvania and challenged the 2020 election results of the state but Shapiro secured legal victory against Trump.

MARK KELLY
Democrat and Senator Mark Kelly is a rare anomaly with him being a former veteran and astronaut.

The senator debuted in politics when his wife and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in the head and had to retire in 2011 due to the injuries posed by the event. That urged Kelly to advocate to end gun violence in the country.

Back in 2020, Biden and Harris turned Arizona blue for the Democratic Party but Kelly won the election which put out Senator John McCain and then two years later, he beat pro-Trumpism Republican candidate Blake Masters.

Kelly is definitely an excellent pick for a running mate but he has a strong hold over Arizona and if the Democrats take him out of the state then they might lose the state.

TIM WALZ
Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota is also a veteran. He handled the uproar of the “Black Lives Matter” movement after George Floyd was killed by the police in Minneapolis.

During his tenure, he has strongly worked for abortion rights in the state. Walz has also worked to provide free school meals regardless of the incomes of the students’ parents.

Walz could also help in making important states like Michigan blue for the Democrats as he has been holding down the fort for the party during the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin.






Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2024 2024-07-20 01:42 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IMO, the article below this shows that Sheila Jackson Lee would be perfect.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/20/2024 2:38 Comments || Top||

#2  They will choose once of the swing state governors or politicians to lock up that state. It won’t actually work, but that will be the thinking.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2024 5:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Would have to be approved by the House. Till such time the Speaker is the next in line. Sound like the best time for 'bargaining'. Pass the 'bargain' before the approval cause the lying Donks will never deliver.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2024 6:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Woody Woodpecker - cartoon character with an annoying laugh... not any other reason... really...
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/20/2024 8:16 Comments || Top||


#6  How about as part of stepping down Joe forces Kamala to select the smartest man he knows: Hunter Biden
Posted by: Airandee || 07/20/2024 16:58 Comments || Top||

#7  No one who wants a political career will take the VP slot.
Posted by: Chantry || 07/20/2024 19:25 Comments || Top||



Biden vows to fight on amid mounting calls to drop re-election bid
[GEO.TV] In a major development, President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
vowed on Friday to continue his campaign for reelection even as more fellow Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
in Congress urged him to end his floundering campaign, fearing that it could cost the party dearly in the November 5 election.

More than one in 10 congressional Democrats have now publicly called on the 81-year-old incumbent - who is isolating at his Delaware home with a case of COVID - to drop out following a disastrous June debate against Republican Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
that raised questions about Biden's ability to win or to carry out his duties for another four years.

Biden remained defiant, saying he would resume campaigning soon.

"I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week to continue exposing the threat of Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda while making the case for my own record and the vision that I have for America," he said in a statement, referring to a policy plan developed by Trump's conservative allies.

The divide among Democrats stood in sharp contrast to the scenes that played out this week at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where former party rivals united around Trump, who accepted the Republican nomination in a rambling speech that featured his familiar mix of grievance and bombast.

So far, 32 of the 264 Democrats in Congress have openly called for Biden to end his campaign, while other senior Democratic leaders have pushed him behind the scenes to do so, according to sources and media reports.

Democrats are increasingly worried about a Republican sweep in the Nov. 5 election that could leave Trump and his allies not only in charge of the White House but also with majorities in both chambers of Congress.

Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2024 2024-07-20 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: badanov || 07/20/2024 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  I sure hope he doesn't drop re-election bid.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/20/2024 2:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Joe has as much chance against Trump as any of them do. They are burning up donations like it’s a raked October leaf pile.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2024 6:01 Comments || Top||

#4 
I guess the Left & its media wants us to believe, that he had them all fooled right to the Debate?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/20/2024 6:28 Comments || Top||

#5  "...to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee..."

seems an appropriate epitaph for him.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2024 6:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Biden will not withdraw from race before meeting with PM Netanyahu - report

Bibi? Do us a solid? Avoid him
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2024 8:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Run Joey, RUN! Just don't tell us another BS Beau story for sympathy. (I'm Beau was a nice enough guy, but he's basically been turned into Baron Von Munchausen at this point.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/20/2024 8:37 Comments || Top||

#8  That was supposed to be "I'm sure". It's too early.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/20/2024 8:38 Comments || Top||

#9  US President Biden waiting to meet with Netanyahu before withdrawing bid, advisors suggest - NYT

ZOG in action?😂
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/20/2024 10:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Hang in there, Joe!
Posted by: Pheresing Chaviper1396 || 07/20/2024 10:56 Comments || Top||

#11  #9 Report: Biden won’t give Netanyahu ‘satisfaction’ of quitting before PM’s trip to DC

Given that Biden's admin tried to "Maidan" Bibi for a few years now.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/20/2024 11:28 Comments || Top||

#12  Like Mike Dewine to Trump, sudden case of covid, Bibi can't travel.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 07/20/2024 13:56 Comments || Top||

#13  “According to Monica Crowley on WABC radio with Rita Cosby, the rumor is that the terms Biden is demanding to drop out is $100M for the family, $2B for his “presidential library,” full pardons for himself and Hunter, and his remaining in office until the end of next January.”

https://x.com/lynnchu/status/1814343800451412413
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/20/2024 19:01 Comments || Top||

#14  ^^^ It's always been about extortion.
Posted by: Whavick Scourge of the Apes9857 || 07/20/2024 19:50 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ And more of these shoes. They're very stable. *oops!*"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2024 19:52 Comments || Top||

#16  "If I win, I get a new caravan, and a pair of those shoes. Periwinkle blue."
/snatch
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2024 22:40 Comments || Top||


Kamala Harris Musters Fake Accent in North Carolina
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
was in North Carolina rallying a small crowd of supporters as Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison....
stayed out of the public eye after he announced he has Covid.

Harris mustered a fake accent as she delivered a campaign speech to North Carolina rallygoers in a city near Fort Liberty (previously Fort Bragg).

"We too busy watchin’ what you doin’ to hear what you’re sayin,'" Harris said in her fake accent.
Maybe she had something in her mouf?
Harris bragged about defying the Supreme Court in their taxpayer-funded student loan bailout.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake...
powerful Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
are working behind the scenes to force Joe Biden out of the 2024 race.

Barack Obama
How much damage could he do in four years?... Eight, then...
, Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 48.61987 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
and Hakeem Jeffries are all doubting Biden’s viability.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are now working behind the scenes to sabotage Joe Biden.

Mark Halperin is now reporting that Joe Biden is going to drop out of the 2024 presidential race as early as Sunday.

According to Mark Halperin, Biden is not expected to endorse Kamala Harris. He will not resign the presidency.

Halperin said there will be an open convention with Kamala Harris and about three others. He floated a couple of potential running mates for Harris: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and PA Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pandering - in some cases it’s a crime, in other cases, it’s your only viable political strategy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2024 6:05 Comments || Top||

#2  In Kammie's defense, I used to work for a guy with a broad 'Noath Caolina' accent and would find myself slipping into my Foghorn Leghorn voice when talking to him. Had to be real careful.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/20/2024 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Memories of Hillarity doing fake accents. It didn't work for her, either.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/20/2024 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Obama would too. They're all born mimics. Nothing original about the Dims.
Posted by: `AlmostAmonymous5839 || 07/20/2024 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  The 4th term of the first 'Black' president appears to now be in jeapardy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2024 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Kamala - the next time you do fake, make it a new set of tits.
Posted by: Raj || 07/20/2024 11:00 Comments || Top||

#7  She African or Indian this week?

Biden does a memorable Indian accent, too.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2024 11:04 Comments || Top||


Trump's Triumph At The RNC Suggests Something Bigger Than Politics Is Unfolding In America
[THEFEDERALIST] It’s difficult to describe historical moments as they’re unfolding, but let me hazard a few initial observations about former President Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down....
’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night.

Watching a presidential candidate (and former president) describe his near-liquidation less than a week after a bullet came within millimeters of ending his life is quite simply the most captivating, awe-inspiring thing that has ever happened at a political convention in this country.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't get complacent suckers - it wasn't the last assassination attempt.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/20/2024 2:32 Comments || Top||

#2  If they are successful, you can swap in Jr without changing the ballots or platform. I say that to trigger liberals.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2024 6:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Unfortunately Grom is right on the money at #1.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2024 6:18 Comments || Top||

#4  It also can’t be the first attempt. Based on the condition of the Secret Service it’s a wonder that anyone survives.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2024 6:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Got a chance to watch the Trump Speech part of the convention.

They were right to put Brandon in the basement and have the media write get well soon letters.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2024 10:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah, they'll try again for sure. Once you've crossed the Rubicon like this, there's no going back.
Next time will be bigger, and messy. A truck bomb, like the one that destroyed the FBI headquarters that commanded the Waco massacre, two years to the day afterwards.
Posted by: Vortigern Borgia1150 || 07/20/2024 11:48 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ My fear as well. Yes, truck or airplane bomb. Thry will stop at nothing to retain their power.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2024 11:54 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: badanov || 07/20/2024 13:26 Comments || Top||

#9  They would be absolutely insane to try this again. If they do, and succeed, well, what goes around comes around.
Posted by: Unuth Spaviger7322 || 07/20/2024 14:47 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm still awaiting the Gov't statements and updates to the American people, ie, conditiion of the president and other wounded, progress of investigation, other details, etc......which I am certain are pending.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2024 15:20 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: badanov || 07/20/2024 16:33 Comments || Top||


Is This The End Of The Road For The Democratic Party?
[ISSUESINSIGHTS] Despite having won five of the last eight presidential elections, the Democratic Party today is in far worse shape than it was in 1980.

It has been completely overrun by its America-hating, DEI-ESG-CRT-socialist-Marxist-spewing radical fringe, which obsesses over things such as "transgender" rights and a phony climate crisis instead of jobs and opportunity.

Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
don’t even speak the same language as the working class anymore, which helps explain why the head of the Teamsters Union spoke at the Republican convention — for the first time ever — saying how Trump "truly cares about working people." (To which the Democrats responded with anger and a sense of betrayal, as though they own union workers.)

Biden has been reduced to buying votes with hundreds of billions of dollars in borrowed money, and has been reduced to calling anyone who isn’t sufficiently woke a fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
Today’s Democratic Party is so devoid of talent that it handed the nomination to an 81-year-old who can barely put two words together. Democrats are now running around like Keystone Cops trying to find their way out of this mess — faced with the even more dismal prospect of nominating the supremely unqualified Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
To sum up, the Democratic Party is ripe for the taking.

The second reason that Democrats may be on the road to ruin is Trump’s pick for his running mate.

In an editorial this week, we said that Trump’s decision to tap J.D. Vance for the job was a political "masterstroke."

But it also shows that Trump learned from history. He is thinking less about this election and more about the ones to come. Like a good executive, Trump is grooming the next generation of leaders who can carry his vision forward.

True, Vance was once a never-Trumper. But he came to realize that he and Trump were aligned on all the important issues long before Trump selected him. That’s in stark contrast to H. W. Bush, who pledged to support Reagan’s agenda only if Reagan named him as his running mate.

At the Republican National Convention earlier this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recounted how the Democratic Party in his state now "lies in ruins, the left is in retreat," for which his bold leadership deserves credit. "Electing Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
," he said, "gives us the chance to do this all across America."

He’s right, and Trump is off to a good start.

His decision to place Vance — a millennial who is just 39 years old — on the ticket could turn out to be one of the wisest of his career, if indeed it does usher in an era of unbroken conservative governorship.

Of course, anything can happen. Trump could lose the election. His second term could be a disaster. Vance could fall to some catastrophic scandal.

But at the very least, conservatives for the first time in decades have a reason to hope that a century of losing ground to the left may finally be coming to an end.

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#1 
Posted by: badanov || 07/20/2024 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^Forget it. It's Moskva...
Posted by: badanov || 07/20/2024 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  This is the 3rd time in my lifetime the commies overreached.

If they had patience, they’d be up against Squish Pence and would take it all.
Posted by: Cravirt Poodle4329 || 07/20/2024 0:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Algorithms determined that the video may contain adult content

The content is Joe Biden who *is* nominally an adult, so it is adult content, in a sense.
What kind of algorithms? Top Algorithms.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/20/2024 1:03 Comments || Top||

#5  But at the very least, conservatives for the first time in decades have a reason to hope that a century of losing ground to the left may finally be coming to an end.

Not if they don't understand that the problem is not Democratic Party but the Globalist ideology originating in EUrope and adopted by American "elites". It's, sorta, like Catholicism in 17th century Britain.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/20/2024 2:15 Comments || Top||

#6  The Dem party has been assembled like the Winchester Mystery House. It is full of contradictions, useless additions and may be haunted.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2024 6:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe the algorithm pinged Biden . Child . Topless . drugs
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2024 10:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Some Dems who have known Joe for a long time are saying Joe does not recognize them.
Posted by: Whavick Scourge of the Apes9857 || 07/20/2024 20:07 Comments || Top||


About that New Civility
[AlphaNews] Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz described Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, as the “perfect Frankenstein monster” during a press conference Wednesday for the Biden campaign.

Posted by: Mercutio || 07/20/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When Dems and RINOs bemoan the lack of civility in our discourse, it’s as disgusting as listening to Hannibal Lector making a meal plan.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/20/2024 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Dunno, I thought the whole fava bean thing was kind of interesting....
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/20/2024 8:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Previously when a party would have their convention the other party would tone it way down and allow them to have their convention,

Not this time. Democrats are ramping up their bullshirt and putting their twit armies in overdrive.
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 07/20/2024 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ desperation
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2024 10:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Sure are lobbing shills at Heritage Foundation.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2024 10:45 Comments || Top||



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