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Government Corruption
Secret Service counter-sniper assets were routinely denied to the USSS Donald Trump Detail if the locations weren't within “driving distance” of Washington DC.
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…information during my show on Rumble yesterday. You can watch the show here if you’d like to. 👇🏻
Posted by: 3dc || 07/28/2024 00:38 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I'm not certain of the significance of "driving distance." Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2024 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  ^It's a golfing term.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/28/2024 2:21 Comments || Top||

#3 
Remember, the current installed, not rightfully elected, White House admin could afford to send $300+ Billion to Ukraine, and funnel $$$ Millions to weird and/or perverse politically aligned SIG's and foundations. But would not properly protect a former President, that they originally conspired to keep out of office.

Were they hoping for a better shot, at avoiding being exposed for treason and subversion?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2024 6:08 Comments || Top||

#4  The area inside the Beltway really has morphed into Panem.
Posted by: no mo uro || 07/28/2024 7:28 Comments || Top||


Biden set to unveil major Supreme Court reform plans next week
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
is reportedly planning to unveil a dramatic Supreme Court reform next week in an attempt to overhaul the high court.

Two people familiar with the matter told Politico that the president is likely to endorse establishing term limits for justices, and bring in a code of ethics.

The 81-year-old is expected to push for an amendment that would limit immunity for presidents and other officeholders.
An amendment to the US Constitution? Does his team — since clearly he won’t be involved — have any idea what has to be done to pass such a thing? It takes a great deal more than a phone and a pen.
His amendment would come directly after the court ruled that presidents are shielded from prosecution for officials acts, in a case brought by Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
According to the outlet, the specifics remain unclear and could still change sources said.

It is said that Biden will call for the overhaul while on a trip to Texas, where he is set to speak at the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidential library in Austin.

The White House declined to comment, referring to remarks earlier this week from his press secretary that he believes the SC should be 'held to a high ethics'

After the court ruled on Trump's immunity case, Biden called the decision 'dangerous' and said it would embolden Trump if the Republican is reelected.

He warned that the conservative-leaning court 'fundamentally changed' a bedrock principle of the nation.
"We win. You lose"
Biden said: 'This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America.

'Today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.

'This is a fundamentally new principle and it's a dangerous precedent. The only limits will be self-imposed by the president alone.'

The Court's 6-3 ruling practically insured that Trump wouldn't face another trial before the November election.
Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Term limits are a good idea.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/28/2024 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  The progressive/socialist movement is on the march. He will push for the legislative/administrative agenda reducing the three pillars to two. Lennin and Rosevelt are proud...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/28/2024 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3 

Every time we read
BIDEN to take action, purposes to, gave $$$B's to, or signed Executive Order ####.

We should be asking who is actually doing it and why?

The DC Swamp & its media arm has known Biden is an empty cell for years. Yet the (D's) & yes (R's) have avoided the 25th and Serious Impeachment for 2+ years. Why?

So, when will the Puppet Masters running the White House behind the scenes be arrested and put on display?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2024 5:28 Comments || Top||

#4  An amendment to the US Constitution? Does his team — since clearly he won’t be involved — have any idea what has to be done to pass such a thing? It takes a great deal more than a phone and a pen.

At this point, the Ruling Council - it sure as hell ain't POTUS - doesn't give a damn if it's Constitutional or not, if they ever knew/cared in the first place. This is a naked attempt to gain votes, and it will go nowhere. The best part is that when SCOTUS shoots it down, they can blame the justices and the whole process starts again.

I mean, if you think it's bad now...if Trump wins, he's going to nominate at least one justice, and that will be a bloodbath of legendary proportions, even with GOP control of the Senate.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/28/2024 7:39 Comments || Top||

#5  The less Biden or his Communist cadre touch btwn now and Jan 2025, the better. He obviously has no mandate from the people.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2024 8:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Term limits, remember to include every Representative(6) and every Senator(3). Oh, and throw in if they do not pass separate funding bills for each Department and Agency by 30 September they're barred from elected or appointed office for 10 years.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2024 8:03 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ nope: if they don't pass a balanced budget, they're subject to a lifetime ban.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/28/2024 9:27 Comments || Top||

#8  ^and forfeit that year's pay and their pension.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/28/2024 10:40 Comments || Top||

#9  and their gravy lifetime medical plan
Posted by: 746 || 07/28/2024 11:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Moving into full lame duck mode. Expect all kinds of judicial "reforms", new gun laws, censorship actions, and boodle for his cronies.
He has exactly zero to loose at this point.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/28/2024 13:15 Comments || Top||

#11  I like all the Ahkshually, its pronounced kaw-mala. They love doing that to chaff the subject.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/28/2024 20:24 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ Quite the appalling epiphany for me, her veepotheosis. Tough out here for a antimisogynist.
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 07/28/2024 21:54 Comments || Top||

#13  Changing the court, as in number of justices is not something that would drive an amendment to the constitution. There is nothing in the constitution that dictates the number of justices. There is, however, constitution verbiage that declares them there for life and their funding, paycheck, can never be lowered. So to put term limits would definitely drive and constitutional amendment.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/28/2024 22:49 Comments || Top||


DOJ settles with former FBI officials over release of anti-Trump texts
[FoxNews] Strzok celebrated the settlement as a victory for the rights of government employees

The Department of Justice has settled with two former FBI officials over violation of privacy rights.

Former counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page filed suit against the Justice Department over the release of their text message conversations expressing contempt for former President Donald Trump.

According to court documents reviewed by the Associated Press, Strzok settled his case for $1.2 million, while Page received $800,000.

In 2019, Strzok argued in a court filing in Washington, D.C., federal district court that his politically charged anti-Trump messages were protected by the First Amendment even though he sent them on bureau-issued phones while playing leading roles in the probes into both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Strzok, once the FBI's head of counterintelligence, said he was entitled to "develop a full factual record through discovery," and that it would be premature to dismiss the case at this early stage. He went on to argue that the DOJ's position would "leave thousands of career federal government employees without protections from discipline over the content of their political speech."

"This outcome is a critical step forward in addressing the government’s unfair and highly politicized treatment of Pete," said lawyer Aitan Goelam, who is representing Strzok.

Goelam continued, "As important as it is for him, it also vindicates the privacy interests of all government employees. We will continue to litigate Pete’s constitutional claims to ensure that, in the future, public servants are protected from adverse employment actions motivated by partisan politics."

Page also filed suit against the FBI and Department of Justice, alleging the government's publication of her salacious text messages with Strzok constituted a breach of the Federal Privacy Act.

"While I have been vindicated by this result, my fervent hope remains that our institutions of justice will never again play politics with the lives of their employees," Page said in a statement.

Page's complaint also sought reimbursement for "the cost of childcare during and transportation to multiple investigative reviews and appearances before Congress," the "cost of paying a data-privacy service to protect her personal information" and attorney's fees.


Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

How is it Free Speech, when evidence collectors openly state their political bias, while conducting their sworn duties?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2024 5:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Deep State rewarding its own.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2024 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  [RT] FBI confirms Trump hit by bullet

“the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America”
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2024 8:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Making the payoff before the tide goes out.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/28/2024 13:17 Comments || Top||

#5  "Pour encorager des autres..." How those who serve the party will be compensated downstream when caught !
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/28/2024 14:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Is this the kind of agreement that the next administration can claw back?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2024 22:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Seymour Hersh: Obama and Kamala threatened to invoke the 25th Amendment on Biden before he dropped out
[PM] Yeah, Sy Hersh... But he's OK to remain POTUS til the inauguration?
Mr. Hersh is forever chasing the feeling of getting a prestigious award for whatever it was he got right that first time, except ever since he’s been neglecting the getting right part. But he hates America, which is all that matters for some people.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2024 13:01 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Hersh has a lot of credibility issues

this claim also has a logic issue; it assumes Biden actually knows there is a 25th amendment and understand how it potentially works.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/28/2024 17:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Hersh has a lot of credibility issues

That might be the understatement of all time.
Posted by: Beavis || 07/28/2024 19:26 Comments || Top||


Trump slams ‘politicized' FBI
[RT] Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has slammed the Federal Bureau of Investigation as being politicized and incompetent at its job.

Testifying before Congress on Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he wasn’t sure whether Trump had been hit by a bullet or something else at a campaign rally two weeks ago.

“I think with respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s [a] bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” Wray told the lawmakers.

Wray was unsure about the bullet but seemed sure that President Joe Biden was physically and cognitively fine, until Biden dropped out of the race, Trump said in a post on his platform Truth Social, late on Thursday.

“That’s why he knows nothing about the terrorists and other criminals pouring into our country at record levels,” Trump continued. “His only focus is destroying J6 Patriots, raiding Mar-a-Lago, and saving Radical Left Lunatics, like the ones now in DC burning American flags and spray painting over our great National Monuments - with zero retribution.”

”No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!” the former president added.

Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered in Washington on Wednesday to protest the address to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Some of them publicly burned the American flag, while others defaced several monuments with pro-Hamas slogans.

The FBI rounded up thousands of Trump supporters who protested outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, as Republicans tried to object to declaring Biden the winner of the 2020 election, citing numerous irregularities. In August 2022, the agency raided Trump’s Florida residence in search of classified documents. The Supreme Court later ruled that prosecuting him for official acts was unconstitutional.

The Mar-a-Lago raid and the crackdown on January 6 protesters were repeatedly brought up as reasons why local and state law enforcement around the US no longer trusts the FBI, according to a report compiled by a group of current and former agents. The Bureau is increasingly viewed “as a partisan federal agency motivated by a political agenda,” said the report, which was presented to Congress earlier this week.

Insisting that Wray was “wrong,” Trump said it was indeed a bullet that had nicked his ear at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally. “There was no glass, there was no shrapnel,” Trump posted, adding that the FBI “never even checked” into it.

The idea that Trump may have been injured by something else, or not at all, has been a popular conspiracy theory among Democrats online. Some people have claimed that he faked the ear injury, while others speculated that a shard from the teleprompter broke off and nicked the presidential candidate. Such rumors have persisted even though a New York Times photographer captured the bloodied bullet as it streaked past Trump and into the crowd behind him.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2024 08:45 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Scroll down to "DOJ settles with former FBI officials over release of anti-Trump texts"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2024 12:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Paying off their golden children for being a good boy and girl.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/28/2024 22:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Happy marriages, I'm sure
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2024 22:51 Comments || Top||

#4  But not to each other, as I recall.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2024 23:20 Comments || Top||


James Carville Drops A Truth Bomb On Democrats About Kamala Harris
[PJ] After weeks of pressure, Democrat elites successfully blackmailed Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, and Vice President Kamala Harris was quickly coronated as the presumptive nominee. There is no denying that Democrats are in the middle of a honeymoon phase with their new candidate.

However, famed Democratic strategist James Carville is warning Democrats that it is not time to celebrate yet and cautioning them against getting too confident about their new choice.

"I have to be the skunk at the garden party. This is too triumphalist, OK?" Carville warned during an appearance on MSNBC earlier this week. "Everybody’s giddy. I look at the coverage and it’s great. If I had to write a play about what I think, it’d be titled, ’The Icepick Cometh,’ OK? Get ready, they’re coming. All right? And it’s good. Everybody should feel good and liberated and everything else. But if we don’t win the election, we haven’t done anything. This kind of giddy elation is not going to be very helpful much longer ’cause that’s not what we’re going to be faced with."

"I think the Vice President, to put it in athletic terms, needs a really good cutman in the corner, because she’s getting ready to get cut," he continued.

"It’s still the same country, all right? It might be a different mood, and all I’m saying is good. Bang your helmets against the locker, it’s fine," he said. "But still, when you go out there, you’re facing Alabama. Just get ready because these Republicans, you’re right, they got caught off guard, but they’re going to get their sea legs and we’re having to get a campaign—a whole campaign started."

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2024 02:38 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Icepick? Carry on an old Commie tradition? (Original Uncle Joe and his former ally/friend Leon.)
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/28/2024 8:48 Comments || Top||



CNN Fact Checker Says Media Incorrectly Labeled Kamala 'Border Czar'
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Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It should've been tsaritsa?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/28/2024 3:46 Comments || Top||



#4  ...We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/28/2024 8:04 Comments || Top||

#5  ferret face?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2024 8:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes CNN, and you were part of that media.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/28/2024 13:16 Comments || Top||


Iraq
U.S., Iraq reaffirm security cooperation to combat growing ISIS threat
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2024 07:36 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State





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  South African police detain 95 Libyans at suspected military camp
Sat 2024-07-27
  Court Convicts 125 Boko Haram Terrorists, Financiers In Mass Trial
Fri 2024-07-26
  Belgium searches 14 houses in terrorism probe, detains 7 for questioning
Thu 2024-07-25
  Pro-Hamas protesters burn the American Flag in our Nation’s Capitol
Wed 2024-07-24
  Lefty mob floods U.S. Capitol ahead of planned ''Day of Temper Tantrum Rage'' against Netanyahu's visit to Congress
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  Secret Service Director Cheatle resigns
Mon 2024-07-22
  Biden campaign officially rebrands with the FEC as 'Harris for President'
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  Biden drops out. Endorses Kamala
Sat 2024-07-20
  50 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
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  Israel parliament votes to oppose Palestinian state
Thu 2024-07-18
  'Half of Hamas leadership eliminated,' claims Israeli military
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  Secret Service boss says 'the buck stops with me' — still won't resign
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