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Government Corruption
Ex-NYC COVID czar fired from job after copping to drug-fueled sex parties during pandemic
[NY Post] Followup story: Karma is a bitch
The city’s ex-COVID czar got the boot from his job at a pharmaceutical firm Monday — a week after he was caught bragging about hosting sex parties and attending an underground rave at the height of the pandemic.

Dr. Jay Varma was serving as a senior health adviser to then-Mayor Bill de Blasio during COVID-19 when he and his wife put on the sex- and drug-fueled debauchery and attended a packed Wall Street rave, according to secretly recorded conversations the doctor had with a woman.

"On September 23, 2024, the Board of Directors of SIGA Technologies (NASDAQ: SIGA) terminated Dr. Jay Varma, effective immediately, other than for cause, from his position as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Company," the firm wrote in a filing to the Securties and Exchange Commission.

"Pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement, Dr. Varma’s service on the Company’s Board of Directors also automatically ended effective immediately," said the filing, which is required when an event occurs that is deemed to affect public-company shareholders.

Varma critic and city Councilman Bob Holden said in a blistering statement, "Dr. Jay Varma’s firing is a step in the right direction, but the consequences for his actions are long overdue."

"Varma boasted about harassing people into submission over the vaccine mandate and admitted to participating in illegal sex parties, all while he, former Health Commissioner Dr. David Chokshi, and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio imposed draconian measures that shut down the entire city," the Queens Democrat said.

"The hypocrisy is outrageous."

Varma’s seamy chats — which included him boasting, "I did all this deviant, like sexual stuff," and, "I had to be kind of sneaky about it ... because I was running the entire COVID response in the city" — were made public last week by conservative podcaster Steven Crowder.

His firing came as enraged city business owners and parents joined lawmakers on the steps of City Hall on Monday to rally against the randy doctor, saying that while they were masking up, keeping their kids home from school and taking other precautionary measures against deadly COVID — under his instruction — he was getting up close and personal with throngs of people.

"While grandmothers took their last breaths alone on cold hospital beds, Dr. Varma was fulfilling his sick fantasies with hundreds of sweaty strangers," city Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) raged.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2024 04:03 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Not unlike the Diddy White Parties.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2024 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  A lot of them are probably just mad because he didn't invite them.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 09/24/2024 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  He’s just going from one type of pharma job to another.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/24/2024 12:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Who would hire this guy?
For what?
Seriously. I can’t imagine.
I hope somebody does follow up.
Posted by: Elmoling Glusons1695 || 09/24/2024 13:28 Comments || Top||

#5  "Rules are for little people"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/24/2024 17:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Ain't nothin' but a Diddy Party.

While 12 year old birthday girls are arrested for blowing out candles.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2024 20:17 Comments || Top||


Bill Barr blasts DOJ for releasing letter of would-be Trump assassin
[NYPOST] Former US Attorney General William Barr panned the Justice Department he once ran for publicly disclosing a chilling letter from the man who allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
earlier this month.

In a court filing Monday, prosecutors released the disturbing note they claim was authored by suspect Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, as proof of his intention to kill the 45th president.

''I was dumbfounded that the DOJ made public this morning the contents of the letter that, Ryan Routh, left with an acquaintance prior to the attempted liquidation of former President Trump,'' Barr told Fox News.

Prosecutors claimed to have acquired that note — addressed ''To the World'' — from an unnamed source who found it in a box they said was delivered to them by Routh prior to the shooting last week.

Routh had further offered a bounty of ''$150,000 to whomever can complete the job.''

''The letter calls on people to 'finish the job' of killing President Trump, attempts to rouse people in incendiary terms to do so, and offers $150,000 to anyone who succeeds. There was no apparent justification for releasing this information at this stage,'' Barr went on.

Some critics have noted how authorities had declined to release the Nashville shooter's lengthy manifesto carried out by a suspect who allegedly identified as a transgender man that shot up Covenant School last year and killed six people, including three children.

Law enforcement officials have previously indicated that evidence suggests Routh didn't actually fire off shots during the security scare at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach on Sept. 15.

Prosecutors also released details in their proffer about evidence that suggests Routh traveled from Greensboro, NC, to West Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 14, just a month before the alleged attempt on Trump’s life.


Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11123 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bill Barr is prolly the guy in charge of eliminating Trump.
Just like he was the guy in charge of eliminating Epstein.
These comments by Bill Barr are ominous.
Why is he talking to anyone?
Does he have a job?
Posted by: Elmoling Glusons1695 || 09/24/2024 4:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Politically Selective.

The Mentally Ill Trans School shooter manifesto still has NOT been "Officially" released.

The reason given was. It might incite other Mentally Ill Transgenders to do the same thing.

However, it seems, the NNSDP Suits had no problem with quickly releasing the Trump Shooter's manifesto, as it might assist with their Pre-Nov 5th agenda?

Why one and not the other?
LGB-Transgenderism is now one of the top 10 agenda items of the New National Socialist Democrat Party (NNSDP).

Plus, the 2nd attempted shooters' manifesto, pretty much mimics the NNSDP's campaign points and offers the next shooter $150K to get it right.



Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/24/2024 4:30 Comments || Top||

#3 
Now, I guess we're just waiting, for the DC Swamp to fill in the blank.

"Routh, ________ himself."
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/24/2024 4:35 Comments || Top||

#4  How to put a 150K bounty on your political opponent with a fig leaf to cover yourself.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/24/2024 6:49 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^^ Exactly.
Posted by: Elmoling Glusons1695 || 09/24/2024 7:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Where have these nut cases come up with their extensive travel and walking around money? Why does no one in the media or gov't wish to talk about following their money ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2024 7:36 Comments || Top||

#7  As I understand, the letter had 3 pages, of which only the 1st was released. The DoJ left out the most important part: where do you go to collect your $150,000?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/24/2024 7:42 Comments || Top||

#8  ^The nearest Iranian consulate.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/24/2024 8:41 Comments || Top||

#9  ...after the next pallet of cash from the Obama-Biden cabal.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/24/2024 9:53 Comments || Top||

#10  $150 can probably buy a lot at the commissary.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/24/2024 12:47 Comments || Top||

#11  Did the Biden-Harris DOJ Put a Bounty on Trump’s Head?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/24/2024 13:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Kamala Harris protested deportation with disgraced celebrity
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Vice President Kamala Harris in now promising to secure the border, but when she was a senator of California, she was a staunch opponent of deporting illegal immigrants.

Harris joined a group of protesters during a 2018 Los Angeles parade chanting, 'Down down with deportation!' in a video exclusively obtained by the Daily Mail.

Harris was named the grand marshal of the 33rd annual parade, typically reserved to celebrate the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

But leftist political forces used the occasion to celebrate their own political causes, including the 'Times up!' movement, featuring women who protested sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace.

The topic of immigration enforcement also came up during the parade, prompting Harris to join chants celebrating illegal immigration without consequences.

'Up up with education, down, down with deportation!' she chanted enthusiastically with the group of activists at her side as she clapped her hands and pointed and smiled.

Harris was joined by members of her family including her husband Doug Emhoff and his daughter Ella Emhoff, who filed the occasion on her iPhone.

Other prominent figures who joined her in the parade included a onetime rising television star Jussie Smollet who was featured in the show Empire, a fictional story of a struggle for control of a hip-hop production company.

Smollet, wearing sunglasses and a Times Up t-shirt held a young girl and joined Harris in the throng of protester.

In January 2019, Smollet was found guilty of conducting a hoax hate crime after he falsely claimed he was jumped by two men wearing MAGA hats who poured bleach on him and wrapped a noose around his neck.

Harris famously described the attack as an 'attempted modern day lynching' on social media in a post she has still not deleted even after Smollet's claim has been thoroughly debunked.

Harris followed through with her goal of reducing deportation once she got to the White House.

According to data released by ICE, the Biden administration's actions in office resulted in a 67 percent decline in removals of criminal aliens compared to the Trump administration.

In the first three years of Trump's administration, ICE removed 485,930 illegal aliens with criminal confiscations or pending criminal charges.

The Biden-Harris administration, however, only removed 158,931 criminal aliens or pending charges.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2024 01:33 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Jussie Smollet who was featured in the show Empire, a fictional story of a struggle for control of a foot long BMT sandwich.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2024 10:53 Comments || Top||

#2  ^You ain't seen nothing yet. I predict delusion of divinity if Kamala's elected.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/24/2024 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Jossie considers his future unburdened of that BMT sandwich with extra salami.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/24/2024 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/24/2024 13:52 Comments || Top||


Vote Democrat for more of this
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Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any idea which city this is taking place, and when?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2024 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably Kensington (Philadelphia), not that I've watched more than a few seconds of either video (yet).
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 09/24/2024 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Definately Philly.

There's a K & A Discount in Philly.
Posted by: badanov || 09/24/2024 0:50 Comments || Top||


#5  That looks like Turk St in SF going all the way back to the 90s.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/24/2024 12:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Sad.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/24/2024 12:45 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/24/2024 15:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Down with this sort of thing!
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 09/24/2024 20:34 Comments || Top||

#9  From AoS:

A RACOON PROBLEM CAN EXPLAIN TRUMP'S ATTRACTION

Like many citizens, I've wondered and tried hard to understand why Trump has such a remarkably large and loyal following. It's obvious why he probably should not! I, personally, do not like Trump or his persona. I wish he would just "go away" and spare us the embarrassment of having him show up on TV.

However; it doesn't look like he's about to leave the scene..... I still struggle to understand....

Then a friend sent me this raccoon story. It makes no difference about your political leanings, this is just a good explanation of WHY... (or it's as good as any I can come up with).

Do you really want to know how the majority of American citizens feel? This applies to both Democrats and Republicans; read below, it says it all.

You've been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement. And they have learned to get to the top floor of your once beautiful, middle class home. You want no them gone immediately. You call the city, 4 different exterminators, but nobody can handle the job.

But there is this one guy that specializes in racoon eradication and he guarantees you to get rid of them. So you hire him. You don't care if the guy smells, you don't care if the guy swears, you don't care if he's an alcoholic, you don't care how many times he's been married, you don't care if he voted for Obama, you don't care if he has a plumber's crack, you don't even care if he's a misogynist. you simply want those raccoons gone! You want your problem fixed! He's the guy. He's the best to solve the problem. Period.

Here's a corollary story for why Trump has such a large following of patriotic American citizens. Yes he's a bit of an ass (maybe a total ass). Yes, he's an egomaniac, an adulterer, a loud-mouth and abusive but we don't care because he makes sense with "Make America Great Again". The country is a mess because politicians totally suck and produce only self-serving rules. The Republicans and Democrats can be two-faced & gutless, and illegals are everywhere. Washington DC is infested with self-serving pests. We want it all fixed!

We don't care that Trump is crude, we don't care that he insults people, we don't care that he once was friendly with Hillary, we don't care that he has changed positions, we don't care that he's been married 3 times, we don't care that he fights with Megyn Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell, we don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslim terrorist. Also, we don't care if the guy has bad hair. This country is weak in resolve and bankrupt. Our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegals (probably even terrorists), we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo, and Hasid is a special group with special rights to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in; "AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED"!!!

And Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want. We're sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, sick of the Republican Party, sick of identity politics with self-identified special groups, sick of trying to guess the preferred pronoun and sick of illegals. We just want this thing fixed!!!!

Trump may not be a saint (he's definitely NOT), but he doesn't have lobbyist money holding him and he doesn't have political correctness restraining him. All you know is that he has been very successful, is a good negotiator, and he has built a lot of things. He's also not a politician.......he's not a cowardly politician......

And he says he'll fix it. And, we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong or looked at and called a liar.

We just want those raccoons gone, out of our house, NOW!!!!

The raccoons have got to go!!!!
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/24/2024 22:59 Comments || Top||


Best video on the internet
[X]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Clown World
Posted by: mossomo || 09/24/2024 12:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I am very surprised that anyone would disregard the opinions of Ronald McDonald’s trans love child.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/24/2024 12:44 Comments || Top||



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  Lebanon says 492 killed in Israeli strikes, including 35 children
Mon 2024-09-23
  Israel probing whether Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar has been killed: reports
Sun 2024-09-22
  Entire Hezbollah Command Eliminated; Friday Dahiyeh strike death toll rose to 37, including civilians
Sat 2024-09-21
  IDF kills Hezbollah’s top commander, says he was overseeing plan for invasion of Galilee
Fri 2024-09-20
  Israel launches over 70 airstrikes against Hezbollah
Thu 2024-09-19
  Israel deploys elite 98th Division to Lebanon border
Wed 2024-09-18
  Israel has blown up thousands of personal radios which were used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon
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  Hezbollah members were wounded in Beirut after their communication pagers exploded on Tuesday.
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  Alexander Vindman’s wife: No ears were harmed, others tried to debunk
Sun 2024-09-15
  Second Trump murder attempt in two months
Sat 2024-09-14
  16 Afghan troops killed as forces repulse cross-border attack
Fri 2024-09-13
  IDF declares Hamas’s Rafah Brigade defeated
Thu 2024-09-12
  Hamas says ready to implement ceasefire without new conditions
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  On this day in history, September 11, 2001, US experiences the worst terrorist attack in American history
Tue 2024-09-10
  ICE's Baltimore office announces the arrest of their 153rd illegal alien sex offender of this fiscal year


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