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Senator Blumenthal (D-Conn): American people are going to be shocked by Secret Service failures with Trump Shooting
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Posted by: 3dc || 09/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I just hope American people are NOT going to be shocked by a successful Trump assassination.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/13/2024 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  It is clear there was failure in the Trump assassination attempt.

But was the failure, that the DC Swamp Elites speaks of, their own?

Since, many independent investigators have been showing the great lengths that evidence has been destroyed, hidden or remains unexplained.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/13/2024 5:23 Comments || Top||

#3  It's the Oswald smell. It simply will not go away.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/13/2024 6:11 Comments || Top||

#4  However, they get sterling marks for DEI implementation!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/13/2024 8:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Have to wonder why Dirty Dick is pushing this? Intimations of an unpleasant January?
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/13/2024 9:16 Comments || Top||

#6  It's too easy, way too convenient, for the Secret Service to claim it was a failure.

"Oops! We're sorry."

"Bullshit. Trump's not dead. That was your failure."
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/13/2024 12:14 Comments || Top||

#7  They will delay the release.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/13/2024 12:38 Comments || Top||

#8  About 20% of the population is appalled that the assassination was incompetently carried out. Totally obvious that such a outcome that would result in a very destructive civil war.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/13/2024 12:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Civil war?
Who goes first P2k?
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 09/13/2024 17:41 Comments || Top||


NYPD boss resigns as Dem mayor's inner circle faces possible corruption probe
[FoxNews] New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban had been pressured to resign for days

New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban has resigned days after federal agents raided his home, his brother's and that of other city officials and seized their electronic devices.

In a resignation letter shared with Fox News, Caban wrote that rank and file officers deserved leadership without distractions.

"I have therefore decided it is in the best interest of the Department that I resign as Commissioner," he told Fox News Digital in a statement through his attorneys. "After 30 years of service to this city, I hold immense respect and gratitude for its brave officers, and must put their interests before my own. I believe firmly in the vital role of leaders with integrity, who, by example, demonstrate the difference between right and wrong every day. I will continue to cooperate fully with the ongoing investigation."

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said during an early afternoon news briefing that he had accepted Caban's resignation, which came about 14 months after his predecessor also resigned from the department.

"This is the best decision at this time," Adams said. "I respect his decision and I wish him well."

In a statement, Caban's attorneys Russell Capone and Rebekah Donaleski told Fox News Digital that the former commissioner had made the safety of New Yorkers his life's work and that he is not the target of the federal probe.

"We have been informed by the government that he is not a target of any investigation being conducted by the Southern District of New York, and he expects to cooperate fully with the government," they said.

Other people in Adams' orbit have also been swept up in the federal investigation.

Sources told Fox News Digital that Caban's twin brother, James, was also under investigation in connection with his nightlife consulting business.

Rumors of a pending resignation have swirled for days in connection with the Caban raids. Federal agents served warrants on three other high-ranking Adams aides on the same day — First Deputy Mayor Sheena Right, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks III and Timoth Pearson, a former NYPD official turned mayoral adviser.

Last year, federal agents seized Adams' devices as he was leaving an event in Manhattan and raided the home of one of his top fundraisers. Adams has denied any wrongdoing, but confirmed last month he had received a subpoena from federal prosecutors and said he and his team are cooperating.

Adams told reporters little Tuesday in response to repeated questions about Caban's fitness for the job or whether he should resign, but said he had full confidence in the NYPD as a whole.
Aaaaand, the buried lede:
The New York Post reported Wednesday that one of Caban's top aides has suspected ties to the Chinese Communist Party and worked for a group that spreads Chinese propaganda in the U.S. It's the latest in a string of China-linked officials in New York politics.

Last month, prosecutors secured an indictment for Linda Sun, a former top aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is accused of being a Communist agent, visa fraud, alien smuggling and money laundering.

Winnie Greco, another Adams aide, was also raided in connection with a campaign fundraising investigation.

Adams appointed Caban as the NYPD's first Hispanic commissioner in July 2023.

He has been replaced by Interim Commissioner Tom Donlon, a retired FBI agent who previously led the National Threat Center and oversaw the Terrorism Watch List.

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11162 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The Biden administration is really, really, mad at Adams for complaining about the migrants coming to NYC.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 09/13/2024 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Why all of a sudden are we not so friendly with the Chinese anymore? Didn't the checks clear?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/13/2024 12:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Adam’s inner circle has become more selective.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/13/2024 12:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Donald Trump promises to abolish tax on overtime if he wins election
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/13/2024 10:07 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  probably should limit this to the first $10-15k or so of overtime

It is not good to incentivize heavy stress on workers.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/13/2024 13:57 Comments || Top||

#2  This would be a massive pay increase for the oilfield and it's 84 hr work week. I work 2 weeks, 12 hrs days then have 2 weeks off. I'll take it.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/13/2024 14:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Self employed.
Will switch from salary to hourly.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 09/13/2024 17:39 Comments || Top||


Donald Trump rules out a debate rematch with Kamala Harris for 2024 election
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/13/2024 00:33 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Given its bias handling of the debate. Why make the MSM another $$$ Million in ad revenues, with another debate??

So Trump is actually hurting the MSM and not his campaign.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/13/2024 5:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Dunno, has negative possibilities. Let's face it, almost everyone expected QueMala to choke and fall face-first into her word salad... but she didn't, for whatever reasons, so by some folks lights she "won" the debate. Now if Trump says "No Mas", the same folks will argue that he's scared "because she 'won' their first debate".
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/13/2024 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Seeing how things are turning out, I'd guess that anything other than inexcusable performance, the advertising strategy was always to declare Harris the winner, regardless because media framing, and ask for another round while crying chicken.

Took her two months...two months...to prep for that..uh..performance, no way to do that again before election.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/13/2024 10:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Only losers ask for a rematch.
Posted by: mossomo || 09/13/2024 13:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump and Trump’s team knew exactly how the debate would go. Kamala can’t make a speech without gaffs, cackles and platitude salad, yet the debate appeared more choreographed than a NASA launch. Americans aren’t stupid. Kamala’s polls among independents will now implode. No need to repeat the evolution.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/13/2024 13:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Considering all the secondaries, one could argue a win. At any rate let it be and enjoy the display.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/13/2024 15:49 Comments || Top||

#7  It was a feat of sheer magic Supe. Someone put a bug in her ear.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/13/2024 15:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Ladies, Gentlemen, and all non-binary magical forest things, we have a problem. After our psyop, nobody is talking about Harris. Even the big name media are talking about cats, and memes, everything except about Harris, and we need to get her name back in the news. Ideas?

Let's have Walz do a public human side expose about her.

Great idea, make it happen.

Walz: "and I love this story; as a young prostitute...."

(Fuk!)
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/13/2024 18:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Art of the Deal. He's taking a strong Con position as a starting position and set the terms on the next debate, if there will be a debate, and everyone will side with him during the negotiations because of how unfair the recent one was.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/13/2024 20:40 Comments || Top||


NYC council passes slavery reparations legislation to 'yield material solutions' from US history
[FoxNews] Does NYC have the cattle to back up that big hat? I thought they were going broke paying for all the illegal immigrants Florida and Texas are so generously sharing with them in a really effective Alinsky move.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/13/2024 00:13 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Reparations were paid 1861-5. On a rough calculation the 39,000 from NY were in a country that was 1/10th size it is today. So in modern projection that would be 390,000 in today's population.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/13/2024 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  And Adam Clayton Powell smiles....
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/13/2024 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Anyone accepting reparations must forfeit their citizenship, forfeit all assets and property and never return to this country under pain of immediate summary execution and NO descendants of theirs may ever claim US citizenship.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/13/2024 9:30 Comments || Top||


#5  Ohio’s population in 1860 was 2.3 million including 37,000 African American. 300,000 served in the Union forces, more than 10%. 35,475 Ohioans died, almost as many deaths as all US forces in the Korean Conflict. Based on the rural nature of Ohio, at the time, it is conceivable that half of the men that died never met an African American prior to their enlistment. The same ratios would likely hold for other states. They were an amazing generation.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/13/2024 13:00 Comments || Top||

#6  If those Ohioans knew the future, I wonder if they would have fought so willingly. Wasn’t there a draft for the CW?
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 09/13/2024 17:44 Comments || Top||


The families of Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom support Trump
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Posted by: 3dc || 09/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gavin's lost some of his oily sheen
Posted by: Frank G || 09/13/2024 6:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Evidently, Joe Biden does as well.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/13/2024 12:42 Comments || Top||


Measuring Harris's rally goers source state by mobile phone GPS homes
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That’s why they had something like a dozen busses lined up afterward to get them home. The question is whether they were paid the traditional shot of whiskey for their participation, or something else.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 
Posted by: badanov || 09/13/2024 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  The commies only now how to stage events. It's all astroturf. They can't comprehend that the other side isn't doing it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/13/2024 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Some of them will be union higher ups. They are likely obligated to go or they lose their position. No pay necessary. The others are likely paid in cash and won’t claim it as income. That is my speculation.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/13/2024 12:41 Comments || Top||


Video of Biden, Harris and Trump entering a room full of firefighters and Trump gets a standing ovation.
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Posted by: 3dc || 09/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Joe looks totally confused.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/13/2024 12:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Joe Kamala ambling next to the Slow sign, while Trump breezes right on past.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/13/2024 16:18 Comments || Top||


WHOA: ABC Whistleblower Reportedly Coming Forward With Deets Proving Kamala Had Questions BEFORE Debate
[Twitchy]


"that were given during the debate and separate assurances of fact checking Donald Trump and that she would NOT be fact checked. Accordingly, the affidavit states several other factors that were built into the debate to give Kamala a significant advantage. I have seen and read the affidavit and after the attorney blacks out the name of the whistleblower and other information that could dox the whistleblower, I will release the full affidavit. I will be releasing the affidavit before the weekend is out."
48 hour rule I suppose...

Related from Anomalous Sources in comments yesterday, Gateway Pundit’s take on the story:
Former Clinton Advisor Calls For Internal Investigation Into ABC for Rigging Presidential Debate Against Trump (VIDEO)
Former Clinton advisor Mark Penn called for an investigation into ABC News for rigging the presidential debate against Trump.

Kamala Harris has a close friendship with ABC’s bosses.

The debate moderator, Linsey Davis, was also Kamala Harris’s sorority sister.

This was never disclosed by the network.


… "I actually think they should do a full internal investigation, hire an outside law firm. I don't know how much of this was planned in advance," Penn said to
@jsolomonReports

"I don't know what they told the Harris campaign."

"I think the day after, suspicion here is really quite high, and I think a review of all their internal texts and emails really should be done by an independent party to find out to what extent they were planning on, in effect, you know, fact-checking just one candidate and in effect, rigging the outcome of this debate."

"I think the situation demands nothing less than that."

Courtesy of 3dc:
Meme of current state of the fragile, near-gone Union
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Related: 25 Lies Kamala Harris Told In Her Debate Against Trump
And from Skidmark: Pro-life group demands ABC issue correction over abortion fact check during debate
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pretty much explains the absence of word salad.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/13/2024 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I kinda hoped he can cause her to break out in hysterics.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/13/2024 1:27 Comments || Top||

#3 
18 U.S. Code Chapter 29 - ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES Criminal Codes could see ABC & MSM staff indited, MSM refunding $$$ Millions in Ad Revenues and paying stiff fines.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/13/2024 5:29 Comments || Top||

#4  In kind campaign contributions - look at Disney's balance sheet from last year and make the fine accordingly. If you hit them there - someone will pay attention. Even a flatworm will avoid pain.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/13/2024 7:36 Comments || Top||

#5  The questions were utterly predictable. Easy to train for them. And not answer them.
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/13/2024 8:55 Comments || Top||

#6  They were utterly predictable if you wanted to play "Get Trump." Many questions were to score political points and mostly useless.
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 09/13/2024 9:23 Comments || Top||

#7  It was mostly empty bla bla.
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/13/2024 9:54 Comments || Top||

#8  My hope also Grom.
Posted by: Squinty+Hatfield8204 || 09/13/2024 10:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Of course they cheated. They're Democrats. They tried to have Trump whacked. That ought to tell you not to put anything past them. The hell of it is that they expect to get away with it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/13/2024 12:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Kamala had the questions, likely their order, and rehearsed the answers. She had ear communication for instruction's while Trump was talking. Kamala was also not challenged by the moderators, while Trump, who didn’t have the questions was challenged.
Biden also likely had all the same stuff for his “debate.” The fact that Joe could not perform to script with those advantages demonstrates how far he is gone. He is totally non-functional. His staff, all leaders foreign and domestic and his family were all aware of Joe’s condition. Yet, he is still president.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/13/2024 12:34 Comments || Top||

#11  If Kammie keeps wearing those earrings... a painful-noise jammer would be fun to see in action...
Posted by: 3dc || 09/13/2024 14:18 Comments || Top||

#12  3dc, unfortunately they don't have a studio audience where somebody could smuggle one in.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/13/2024 14:21 Comments || Top||

#13  with a strong enough jammer ..no reason to be in the building. US buildings are rarely RF shielded. (Japan it would only sometimes work as they tend to RF shield .)
Posted by: 3dc || 09/13/2024 16:44 Comments || Top||

#14  The reality is that Kamala gave them the questions to ask.
Posted by: Airandee || 09/13/2024 17:58 Comments || Top||

#15  She has the perfect defense.
She didn't answer a single question. Who cares if she knew them ahead of time if she refused to answer them?

i do hope they continue to embarrass her as her defense just points out that she didn't answer anything.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/13/2024 20:46 Comments || Top||



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