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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Secret Sevice probing claims agent left Trump rally to breastfeed
[NYPOST] The United States Secret Service is investigating allegations a female agent left her post at a campaign event for former President Trump this week to breastfeed her child.

''All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards. While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further,'' Secret Service front man Anthony Guglielmi told The Post.

The breastfeeding allegation was first made by RealClearPolitics correspondent Susan Crabtree in a lengthy X posting Thursday — shortly after the Trump campaign event in Asheville, North Carolina.

''The site agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president,'' Crabtree wrote.

''A working agent on duty cannot bring a child to a protective assignment. The woman was out of the Atlanta Field Office,'' she added, citing three people ''in the Secret Service community'' as the source of the info.

The charge comes as the agency is already under fire for security lapses which lead to a near-fatal liquidation attempt against Trump last month.

Secret Service Director Kimberley Cheatle, who made elevating more women into the agency a priority, was forced to resign amid the fallout.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kinder, Küche, Kirche is sounding better every day.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/18/2024 2:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Why would they assume the agent is female? Did they ask for preferred pronouns?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/18/2024 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Glenmore, right. A man can chestfeed. Just ask Pete Buttigieg.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/18/2024 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  "Do you have evidence of the breast in question?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 11:04 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Planned Parenthood offering free abortions, vasectomies at DNC
[FoxNews] The mobile health clinic will roll into Chicago, Aug. 19-20.
America’s future will belong to those who have babies to live in it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  America’s future will belong to those who have babies to live in it.

The illegals?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/18/2024 2:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Offering free euthanasia in lawless Cook County should added to the DNC events calendar.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2024 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  ..so it is written.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2024 6:51 Comments || Top||

#4  It's a shame that the delegate's parents can't be offered retroactive abortions.
Ya, know, reproductive freedom and all.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/18/2024 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I have no problem with LGBQT Democrats sterilizing themselves. Where is Margaret when you need her?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/18/2024 14:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Same Walker. I approve them removing themselves from the gene pool.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/18/2024 17:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Democrat funded Winnebago sidewalk abortions. How convenient.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2024 19:25 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Feds Are Helping Register AL Prisoners To Vote
[FEDERALIST] The Federal Bureau of Prisons has been registering federal prisoners to vote in Alabama, according to Secretary of State Wes Allen, an effort he claims is ''illegal.''

Allen said federal prison inmates include “high percentages of noncitizens,” people “not domiciled in Alabama,” and convicts of “crimes of moral turpitude” — defined as “wicked, deviant behavior” — all of whom could be “ineligible to vote” in the state, Allen said in the statement.
''At least one liberal third-party organization has been deployed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to conduct voter registration in federal prisons in Alabama,'' Allen said in a statement to The Federalist. ''Obviously, this raised questions for my staff and I.''

Allen said President Joe The Big Guy Biden

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Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In the old days, felons were simply hung. However, today the Donks get the dead vote anyways.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2024 6:53 Comments || Top||

#2  oh, that's not half of it
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/18/2024 10:13 Comments || Top||


Congress Passed A Loophole For Illegals To Vote (video)
[Whatfinger] "It’s illegal, you say, for illegal aliens to vote in a federal election. Well, actually, it’s not illegal, it turns out. Congress passed something in the US code, the federal code, a line that, unbeknownst to the rest of us, makes it legal for illegal aliens to vote in federal elections if they believe they are citizens. It’s a state of mind" Founder of True The Vote, Catherine Engelbrecht found in the US Code "Non citizens can vote without penalty if at the time they are voting they believe themselves to be US citizens.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fine...prove it
Posted by: Warthog || 08/18/2024 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  our elections need to be normalized at the supreme court level. citizens only on paper ballots counted by hand on election day. exceptions only foe military. inked thumbs to show voted.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 08/18/2024 11:31 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Worked for 300 years or so didn't IRB.

The ONLY reason the process gas been computerized is to facilitate cheating.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2024 13:00 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^^^
Exactly!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/18/2024 16:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
US: Jill Stein announces Muslim convert as VP running mate
[NEWARAB] US Green Party candidate Jill Stein announced her pick for her vice-presidential running mate at an online event on Friday night - academic, activist and Moslem convert Rudolph "Butch" Ware.
Perhaps they’ll split the Moslem vote with the Democrats and the Republicans. But it still won’t be enough to get the Green Party out of the small single digits as their share of the vote.
The announcement came after days of speculation over who Stein would choose in her, by all indications, quixotic campaign for president.

Over the past several days, multiple names - mainly Arab Americans - have been floated as Stein's VP contender, however Ware's name did not appear in most major news reports on the subject.

After Stein announced him as her running mate, Ware described himself as a "willing warrior with resolve in the cause of liberation."

Stein, who ran for president in 2016 and in 2020, followed up by saying, "We're going to turn the empire upside down." She went on to praise their alliance as a Jewish woman and a Moslem man, describing their ticket as unstoppable.

The web event lasted nearly an hour and 45 minutes with around the first hour and a half dedicated to the run-up to the VP pick. The discussion mainly focused on the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and the duopoly of the two-party system that prevents multiple parties from running for president.

Though Stein appears to have no viable path to the presidency, raising concerns among many that she is a potential election spoiler, she does have a significant following in the Arab and Moslem communities. This is mainly due to her unconditional support for a ceasefire in Gaza and for a US arms embargo on Israel.

"She's the only campaign with a principled stance on Paleostine. We should all get behind her," Amer Zahr, a comedian and activist from Dearborn told, whose name has been in the news recently as a potential running mate for Stein told The New Arab.

Wikipedia’s Rudolph "Butch" T. Ware III page is rather bare bones (he apparently doesn’t use the III socially):
Rudolph "Butch" T. Ware III is a historian of West Africa at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Santa Barbara. He formerly taught at the University of Michigan and before then at Northwestern University.[1][2] He received his Ph.D. in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Former China Travel Mate of Walz's Says He's 'Maoist to the Core'
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/18/2024 14:11 Comments || Top||


Televised MSNBC Focus Group Goes Horribly Wrong, Gen-Z Voters Slam Biden-Harris Economy
[GatewayPundit] Left-leaning media outlets like MSNBC are doing their best to protect Vice President Kamala Harris
launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
from scrutiny.

As Ben Shapiro has been so keen on pointing out these last few weeks, it’s been nearly 30 days since Harris became the de facto Democrat nominee, and not once in that time has the media asked her an adversarial question.

The media, which once loathed Harris, has provided nothing but glowing coverage of her. It hasn’t pushed her to lay out her policy proposals or explain how her new administration would be any different than the disastrously unpopular one she is currently serving in.

Given how hard set they are on protecting her, it’s likely the propagandists over at MSNBC were more than a bit troubled by the focus group that managed to find its way onto their airwaves Thursday.

The focus group, led by Harvard Institute of Politics Director of Polling John Della Volpe, sought to get a reading on where Gen-Z voters stand heading into the November election.

One issue seemed to feature most prominently for the Gen-Z voters polled: the state of the economy under the Biden-Harris regime.

"I’m 20 years old. Why is a one-bedroom apartment $1,600?" one Gen-Z voter asked. "Rent prices [are] outrageous and then these jobs, they’re bare-minimum jobs."

A common theme among the voters polled was frustration at the rising cost of housing.

Two voters even acknowledged they had recently experienced homelessness. One woman said she was working full time while she was homeless, indicating it was because she had to choose between eating and having a home.

Not all Gen-Z voters are going to have the wisdom to connect those rising prices to Democrat policies.

In fact, some of the very same voters in the focus group went on to praise Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
...Kamala's running mate, governor of Minnesota. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness....
That said, overall, voters tend to connect the current economic conditions to the sitting president — that’s why incumbent candidates often have a hard time winning re-election during recessions.

Many have forgotten that before COVID hit, it looked like Trump was going to coast to re-election, thanks largely to the strong economy he had led thus far.

Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  heh
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/18/2024 10:18 Comments || Top||

#2  It is great that we are ending the genocide in Paleostine, but that doesn't help in the checkout line. At some point, self interest overwhelms ideology. In the words of Karl Marx, "It's the economy, dummkopf!"
Posted by: SteveS || 08/18/2024 19:04 Comments || Top||


Democrats Beg Kamala Harris Not to Release Policy Agenda Before Election
[Breitbart] 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...
appear rattled that they could lose Senate, House, and presidential elections if Vice President Kamala Harris
It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day
is transparent about policy solutions to reverse the administration's failures.

Harris, who has not held an unscripted presser for 26 days since joining the race, is facing calls to not only remain hidden from the press but to keep her proposed policies a secret as she prepares to deliver economic proposals in North Carolina on Friday.

Harris, however, already published several policies, such as socialist-style price controls, subsidies for homeowners, and two policies that copy the Trump-Vance ticket: a child tax credit and no tax on tips.

''She doesn't need to negotiate against herself. We've got the biggest possible tent right now,'' Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH), told Politico. ''I don't think there's a real strong reason for her to try to weed out any points of view right now.''

Harris's honeymoon phase of the campaign energized some Democrats, while others raised concerns against doing anything that could end the phase.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "You can't read it till we pass it."
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2024 6:53 Comments || Top||

#2 
I can see the Free Homeless showering facilities and the free hi-protein bars coming now.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/18/2024 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Not to Release Policy Agenda Before Election

What about public appearances?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/18/2024 15:14 Comments || Top||


Left-wing Washington Post slams Harris' price-gouging crackdown
[NYPOST] Even the Washington Post isn't buying Vice President Kamala Harris
What can be, unburdened by what has been
' plan to slap socialist price controls on groceries.

The longtime, left-leaning broadsheet — owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos — published a scathing editorial ripping the Democratic presidential nominee for claiming price gouging is causing inflation and, rather than offer a legit plan to fix it, offering only ''populist gimmicks.''

With food prices surging more than 20% nationwide during the Biden-Harris administration, Harris, during a North Carolina rally earlier Friday, unveiled economic policies she'd enact during her first 100 days as president that include enforcing government price controls on groceries.

Instead of ''level[ing] with voters'' and saying ''inflation spiked in 2021 mainly because the pandemic snarled supply chains, and that the Federal Reserve's policies, which the Biden-Harris administration supported, are working to slow it,'' the veep ''opted for a less forthright route: Blaming big business,'' the newspaper wrote.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Democratic presidential nominee for claiming price gouging is causing inflation

Where did I heard this before?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/18/2024 2:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Or as she says it: "Price gauging".
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2024 6:31 Comments || Top||

#3  You were not suppose to let the cat out of the bag.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2024 6:55 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: badanov || 08/18/2024 6:59 Comments || Top||

#5  badanov... that hurt. And was my Friday 2:30am when Crowdstike decided to test their patch in production.

I'm gonna snuggle up to my emotional support beer now.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/18/2024 17:37 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2024-08-18
  Top Hezbollah commander killed in Lebanon after IDF drone strike
Sat 2024-08-17
  Muslim leaders expect 100,000 pro-Hamas demonstrators for DNC
Fri 2024-08-16
  Over half of Hamas' forces have been wiped out as Israel's war goals are within reach
Thu 2024-08-15
  Mohammed bin Salman 'at risk of assassination' over Israel-Saudi normalisation
Wed 2024-08-14
  Sudan's Burhan rejects peace talks, demands RSF withdrawal
Tue 2024-08-13
  Hamas kills one hostage and wounds two
Mon 2024-08-12
  Taylor Swift terror plot suspect's lawyer downplays plan to carry out ISIS-inspired suicide attack: 'Playing with ideas'
Sun 2024-08-11
  Lebanon proposes additional LAF troops in south to restore calm
Sat 2024-08-10
  Israeli airstrike targeted the security chief of Hamas in the Ain al-Hilweh camp while he was in his car in the city of Sidon
Fri 2024-08-09
  The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales warns that sharing online material of riots could be an offence
Thu 2024-08-08
  Taylor Swift concerts canceled after ISIS plot narrowly foiled by police
Wed 2024-08-07
  Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran arrested in political assassination plots including Trump
Tue 2024-08-06
  Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as chief
Mon 2024-08-05
  US, France call for 'utmost restraint' in Middle East. Utmost.
Sun 2024-08-04
  Hamas commander, eight other gunmen killed in two IDF drone strikes near Tulkarem


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