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Who lame duck Joe Biden blames for Kamala's catastrophic defeat as Democratic party tears itself apart after Trump victory
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The people surrounding Joe Biden blame Nancy Pelosi for Kamala Harris' election loss as Democrats have begun to bicker over who caused the party's disaster.

It came as the president, 82, reacted to Harris' concession speech at Howard University Wednesday.

The blame game went into overdrive last night, as Biden confidantes told senior White House reporters they hold the former Speaker of the House responsible for him being pushed out of the race.

'Bidenworld' sources claim that not only should the president have stayed in the race but that he would have won the white working-class voters who Harris largely ceded to Donald Trump.

The claim that Pelosi got him out of the race is comparable to how Biden blames Barack Obama for demanding he not run in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.

However, there was also a sense of treachery within the president's ranks, as sources told CNN Senior White House correspondent Kayla Tausche that he himself 'was more deeply unpopular than anyone grasped.'

Other Democrat insiders have blamed Tim Walz for being too left wing, too folksy, and too tainted by the Kenosha riots, while others blamed every demographic possible.

Not enough white women showed up, too many black men switched to Donald Trump since 2020, and Hispanic voters abandoned the party.

Media analysts also speculated Joe Biden should have pulled the plug on his candidacy well before his disastrous debate performance.

This would have either given Harris more time to establish herself, or allowed for an open primary to select a stronger candidate, they argued.

Earlier Tuesday, Biden seemed to begin the peaceful transition of power by offering an olive branch to Trump.

Later, he offered his reaction to Harris' teary-eyed concession speech.

'What America saw today was the Kamala Harris I know and deeply admire. She's been a tremendous partner and public servant full of integrity, courage, and character,' he wrote.

Biden has called Trump to congratulate him for his dominant victory over Harris and invited him to the White House.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief extended the olive branch to the president-elect a week after calling his supporters 'garbage' and hours after he was confirmed as his successor.

The White House confirmed Biden and Trump spoke on the phone on Wednesday afternoon and 'emphasized the importance of working to bring the country together' as well as a 'smooth transition'.

Trump's spokesperson Steven Cheung confirmed that the once again president-elect had accepted.

'President Trump looks forward to the meeting, which will take place shortly, and very much appreciated the call,' Cheung said in a statement.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2024 09:17 || Comments || Link || [10325 views] Top|| File under:



#3  I celebrate this internal introspection and the need to purge unbelievers, wreckers, and saboteurs
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2024 11:17 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm pretty sure he's not going to look in to the mirror and say "If I had stepped out last year, the party could have had a real primary season".
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/07/2024 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  FJB is not just a lame duck. He's the lamest of ducks ever.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/07/2024 12:21 Comments || Top||

#6  But will Kamala oust him now after his screwups?
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Media analysts also speculated Joe Biden should have pulled the plug on his candidacy well before his disastrous debate performance.

This would have either given Harris more time to establish herself, or allowed for an open primary to select a stronger candidate, they argued.


An open primary may well have resulted in the nomination of a more viable candidate than Harris who was utterly without qualifications and tainted by her association with the failed policies of Joe Biden. But it seems lately the Democrats have been operating behind closed doors in back rooms instead of being out in the open, transparent and truly democratic.

Who knows what would have happened in 2016 if Biden had been allowed to go for it before his cognitive decline started? Could he have beaten Hillary in the primaries and gone on to beat Trump?

Then in the 2020 primaries when it was apparent that Bernie Sanders would win, the party bigwigs met in a back room and compelled all of the candidates except Biden to drop out of the race. They must have offered Sanders a helluva deal to get him to quit. Either that or they held a gun to his head.

In a general election the Marxist Sanders would have lost but at least his defeat and Trump's victory would have cleared the decks for Democrats to nominate a better candidate this year.

Now it seems the back room, authoritarian, anti-democratic methods of the cabal that has been running this country have finally caught up with them. Anti-democratic policies deny natural selection. They prevent the survival of the fittest and so we get candidates like Harris who was so eminently unfit that they couldn't cheat big enough to get her to the White House.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/07/2024 12:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Mourning Joe blamed the Blacks and Latinos because they are a misogynist people. He then went on to blame Latinos for also being racists by nature.

Interesting take.

The Matrix is doing a Grrrta How Dare You! campaign against the audience of voters who usually vote D but jumped to Trump.

Don't know if its a hangover from the final week of campaigning insult theme or if this was a planned response knowing a week ago Harris was likely cooked.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2024 13:38 Comments || Top||

#9  This would have either given Harris more time to establish herself...

You know what else gives a candidate 'more time to establish herself'? Not ducking the press for the entire first month of her campaign. It's obvious to me that these clowns will come up with any rationale to avoid saying 'we really suck'.
Posted by: Raj || 11/07/2024 13:43 Comments || Top||

#10  Based on her poll numbers, Kamala had too much time for the voters to discover who she actually was. Unfortunately, the only way she could have had a shorter time window would have required a write-in candidacy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 13:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Unexpectedly.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/07/2024 18:32 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
DC: Trayon White Cruises To Reelection After Getting Caught On Camera Allegedly Taking Wads Of Cash In Bribes
[DC] A Democrat D.C. City Councilmember previously charged with bribery overwhelmingly won his reelection Tuesday night.

Trayon White Sr. won his race with around 76% of the vote, according to the D.C. Board of Elections.

White was charged with bribery this past August.

He allegedly agreed to accept $156,000 in cash payments in exchange for using his position to pressure government employees at the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services ((DYRS) and the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (ONSE) to extend multiple city contracts, according to the Department of Justice.

"Because the investigation into the alleged bribery scheme involved contracts that could soon be awarded and other potential official acts that could be taken, our Office took swift steps to address the alleged crimes we were investigating," U.S. Attorney for D.C., Matthew M. Graves, stated.

"What you need me to do, man? I don’t, I don’t wanna feel like you gotta gimme something to get something. We better than that," White told a confidential source when offered an envelope with $15,000 in cash, according to an arrest affidavit from the FBI’s D.C. Field Office.

However, White allegedly took the envelope and put it in his pocket.

White was accused of making anti-Semitic comments in 2018 after he suggested that Jewish bankers — the Rothschilds — controlled the climate, The Washington Post reported. He later apologized for his comments.

White also donated $500 to a Nation of Islam event that same year, according to The Washington Post.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10326 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Winner of the Adam Clayton Powell Award for 2024.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/07/2024 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  It was just one big bill wrapped around some 1’s. Probably wouldn’t have crossed the previous felony threshold in Ca.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Super Hose is probably right. We're talking about two-bit whores.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/07/2024 12:56 Comments || Top||

#4  "Forget it, Jake. It's DC."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 11/07/2024 18:22 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Please, foking please. No more disparagement of two-bit whores.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2024 18:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Marion Barry would be proud.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/07/2024 22:26 Comments || Top||


Biden-Harris paying billions to 'radical left' climate change groups and Chinese communist party: report
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Biden-Harris Administration
…only for a few more weeks. Hurrah!
has been slammed for giving $41 billion to fund nonprofits that 'spread radical, left-leaning ideology' to eliminate fossil fuels.

A new report blasted the White House for subsidizing a shift to green energy tech 'which relies upon supply chains dominated by the Chinese Communist Party,' although financial analysts who cover the US energy sector dispute those claims.

The Delaware Valley Citizens Council for Clean Air received funding to phase out fracking and 'make biking, walking, transit, and electric vehicles the primary' sources of transportation — a plan that stresses the need for green energy.

Another $10 million grant was given to West Harlem Environmental Action, Incorporated (WE ACT), which called for the halt on new natural gas operations to continue 'fighting false solution infrastructure.'

'Simply put, the EPA is awarding taxpayer dollars to special interest groups committed to a radical energy agenda to "educate" others,' House Republicans said.

While the US currently produces one third of its solar panels domestically, it faces fierce competition from China — which produces roughly 98 percent of the world's solar wafers, lowering prices of the tech globally.

Today under Biden, the US imposes a 39 percent tariff on all such solar components imported from China.

But the US energy sector nevertheless does import solar cells, wafers and polysilicon from the Asian nation, totaling a record $12 billion in 2023 from China and its major export hubs in Malaysia, Vietnan, Thailand and Cambodia, according to Reuters.

Republicans overseeing the House Energy and Commerce Committee, however, zeroed-in on what they called a lack of oversight within the EPA to ensure that $41.5 billion in nonprofit grants funded by Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) were properly used.

In a public statement, Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said, 'It couldn't be more clear: The Biden-Harris administration rewards its environmental special interests at the expense of the American people.'

'Equally as alarming,' Representative Rodgers noted in the joint-statement, 'is how these policies benefit the Chinese Communist Party — the world's worst polluter.'

Approximately $2.8 billion managed by the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) was one specific spending concern in the report.

Another was $50 million given to the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) that focuses on the 'social, racial, economic and environmental justice issues of climate change,' according to its website.

CJA's work under the EPA grant system would include MEER, a project to reduce climate change with land-based mirrors to reflect light directly back into space, and Rust Belt Harvest, 'harvests and distributes surplus urban fruit and vegetables in Buffalo, NY.'

'The influx of new funding and explosion of new programming discussed above will tax the EPA's oversight and financial awards monitoring capabilities,' the committee's report argued.

And yet, as of August 2024, a total of $89 billion from the IRA — more than twice the $41 billion proposed for EPA grants to 'progressive' nonprofits — has already been spent on US manufacturing investment, according to MIT and the Rhodium Group.

Alongside the EPA grants, over $200 billion has been earmarked for investment in domestic US green tech factories and manufacturing — nearly 500 percent more than the money dedicated to these nonprofits — as part of the Biden's 2022 IRA.

One brand new $1.9 billion electric vehicle battery plant, announced for Marshall County, Mississippi this past January, was praised as 'truly life changing to constituents' by Republican state senator Neil Whaley.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10325 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The continuing resolution streak will be ending soon. Johnson is our mall cop until January to prevent lame duck shenanigans. I’m sure he’s up to the job.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
2024 Presidential Results: Trump got 312!
[DecisionDeskHQ] Results as of today at 1:24 a.m. ET. It’s been called and VP Kamala Harris has formally conceded, but while many states have recorded upwards of 90% of their precinct results, California is still only at 60%.

Harris: 226 Electoral College votes (68,310,652 votes)

Trump: 312 Electoral College votes (72,960,614 votes)

President Trump needed 270 Electoral College votes to win.


SENATE
Republicans: 52 seats (+3)
Democrats: 47 seats (-3)

HOUSE
Republicans: 212 sets (+2)
Democrats: 197 seats (-2)
Need 218 for the majority

STATE GOVERNORS
This site only has a few governors races recorded thus far. Of those listed, 10 are Republican and 4 are Democratic.


Posted by: trailing wife || 11/07/2024 2024-11-07 01:39 || Comments || Link || [10326 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I just had a delicious thought. There's a meme leftards could use to attack Trump - but never will: "He only wins against girls!".
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/07/2024 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Harris' husband made it OK to beat women.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/07/2024 8:54 Comments || Top||

#3  ^I wonder if he'll beat Kamala for losing?🥵
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/07/2024 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  1. We still need to fix voting.
2. Half the country won't accept this result. That's a problem.
3. God help us if the Dems ever run someone who isn't universally disliked.
Posted by: Angstrom || 11/07/2024 9:07 Comments || Top||

#5  RE #3: Not if she keeps her head down...
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/07/2024 9:48 Comments || Top||

#6  ^🥵
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/07/2024 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Half the country won't accept this result.

I think it’s more complicated than that, Angstrom. Nobody seems to be claiming that the Republicans cheated their way into the White House. They’re just appalled that the country they loved has a majority of deplorable racist garbage Nazis who somehow figured out how to vote.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/07/2024 10:56 Comments || Top||


#9  Meghan McCain rips 'The View' for liberal bias as co-host lashes out at voters over Trump victory

Something intelligent from 'the View':
'I think it had nothing to do with policy. I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country,' Sunny Hostin said



I can see clearly now, the reign has gone.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2024 11:10 Comments || Top||

#10  I think Hostin has it exactly wrong. We gave a senile man and his dim-witted sidekick a chance to run the country. If their economic policy had worked, Biden would be stumbling up the stairs for a second term.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Nobody seems to be claiming that the Republicans cheated their way into the White House.

Actually, there are a lot of claims on X - mostly complaining about the 20M votes from 2020 which 'disappeared'. They can't comprehend that the 20M were fraudulent votes they could not get away with this time.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/07/2024 14:03 Comments || Top||

#12  What if a president-elect was incapacitated after the election?
If a president-elect was to die, timing is again important.

Under the Constitution, it is electors meeting in state capitols who technically cast votes for the presidency. While some states require that they vote for the winner of the election in their state, in others they have leeway.

The CRS memo, which cites several congressional hearings on the subject, suggests it would clearly make sense for a vice president-elect to simply assume the role of president-elect, but the law itself is murky.

Under the 20th Amendment, if a president-elect dies, his or her running mate, the vice president-elect, becomes president.

There could be some question, for instance, about when exactly a person becomes president-elect. Is it after the electors meet in December, or after Congress meets to count Electoral College votes on January 6?
Posted by: Enver de Medici8393 || 11/07/2024 19:08 Comments || Top||

#13  I foresee POTUS JD Vance and DeSantis far into the next years of my life
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2024 20:25 Comments || Top||


Furious Amish in Pennsylvania get 'revenge' at the polls
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Pennsylvania's traditionally private Amish community registered to vote in 'unprecedented numbers' after government agents stormed a local farm early in the year.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture raided Amos Miller's farm on January 4, sparking outrage among the state's Amish population, a source familiar with the matter told The New York Post.

'That was the impetus for them to say, "We need to participate,"' the source said. 'This is about neighbors helping neighbors.'

The raid by state officials came after reports of children falling ill from raw dairy products purchased at the farm in Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania.

'If you think about Amish people and their connection to nature, I mean, some of these people work in the fields barefoot to be closer to the earth,' the source told The Post.

While exact numbers of Amish voters remained unclear as of Tuesday night, horse-and-buggy rigs spotted at polling locations in the state.

This comes as Donald Trump won Pennsylvania, the biggest 2024 election swing state.

Conservative activist Scott Presler, known for his outreach to Pennsylvania's Amish community, has been credited for the voter turnout.

Pressler has been engaging with voters by emphasizing local issues, particularly regarding agricultural practices and religious freedoms, the Express Tribune reported.

Beyond the Amish community, Presler has expanded his campaign to include union laborers and hunters, emphasizing job security and Second Amendment rights.

His engagement with these diverse voter groups has earned him widespread recognition among supporters.

Dr. Jan Halper-Hayes expressed gratitude for his efforts on X, writing: 'If Trump wins Pennsylvania, we all owe it to this man! @ScottPresler Registered's 180,000 Amish first time voters. He worked tirelessly! Please send a thank you to Scott!'
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2024 00:57 || Comments || Link || [10326 views] Top|| File under:

#1  N.B. the Amish don't watch TV
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/07/2024 8:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey, DM!
Is it Presler, or Pressler?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2024 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Is it Presler, or Pressler?

Oh, don't be so picky! It's not like there is some automated spellcheck tool they can use to ensure correctness and consistency.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/07/2024 10:55 Comments || Top||

#4  The..elite. The best of the best..

Clippy will make you better.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2024 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Amish revenge seems more like a bad movie script rather than the reality that they decided to vote for their community interest.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:41 Comments || Top||


MAGA stars gloat they can 'finally' admit Project 2025 will be Trump's agenda
[Daily Mail, whee America gets its news] America's top conservatives are gloating that 'Project 2025' will be enacted in the new Donald Trump era, despite the former president disavowing the agenda during the campaign.

Project 2025 is a hardline conservative manifesto setting out a program for government written by his allies.

Trump and JD Vance have shrugged off suggestions that the agenda is on the table for them but conservatives like Matt Walsh and Steve Bannon reveled in the opportunity to push the policy goals after the election.

'Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda,' Walsh wrote Wednesday.

Speaking on his podcast, fresh out of prison former Trump advisor Bannon gave Walsh a shout out and wholeheartedly agreed. Bannon was just recently released from a four-month prison sentence in Connecticut for contempt of Congress.

He was convicted in 2022 on two counts of defying subpoenas issued by the congressional investigation into the January 6 attack when Trump supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

Project 2025 was overseen by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a thinktank stuff with alumni from the Trump administration and allied groups.

It sets out a blueprint for Trump in office, including proposals that he has already adopted, such as strengthening the southern border and decreasing federal involvement in education.

But it also calls for a ban on a widely used abortion pill, the abolition of the Department of Homeland Security, and scrap dietary guidelines.

Trump has repeatedly rubbished any suggestion it will provide a blueprint for his administration, saying he had 'nothing to do with it' during last month's presidential debate.

Authors of the manifesto include Russ Vought, who was budget director in the Trump White House, and JD Vance, Trump's running mate, has ties to Kevin Roberts who oversaw the whole project.

Most recently, Trump transition team leader Howard Lutnick has thrown cold water on the idea that it'll be used in the White House.

Lutnick also disowned Project 2025, the document produced by a stable of former Trump administration figures that the Trump campaign has said repeatedly does not represent Trump or his campaign.

'Project 2025 is an absolute zero for the Trump-Vance transition,' said Lutnick.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2024 00:50 || Comments || Link || [10325 views] Top|| File under:


#2  dailymail...
... salt to taste
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/07/2024 14:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Whatever it is or is not, Media is really trying to spook this up.

Funny, though, the lack of curiosity of Harris' for real embrace of Communist Manifesto.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2024 14:45 Comments || Top||


Rashida Tlaib secures ''easy'' reelection in Michigan
[NEWARAB] Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
...the very first ever Paleostinian-American ever sworn into Congress in 2019. She is a member of The Squad and consistently votes against the U.S. national interest. She's a Dem, naturally, from a safe district you wouldn't want to live in (Michigan's 12th congressional district). She wants the country to be kinda like Gaza only without any Jews for neighbors...
has secured her fourth term in the US House of Representatives, standing in Michigan's 12th congressional district.

Winning decisively on Tuesday night, Tlaib remains the only Paleostinian-American in Congress, and is known for her outspoken stance on US military aid to Israel and her support for Paleostinian rights 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 a rusty 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...
, the West Bank, and within the United States.

The News Agency that Dare Not be Named called the race with just 18 percent of the votes counted, as Tlaib maintained a commanding lead, ultimately winning with 77 percent of the vote.

She defeated Republican opponent James Hooper, who received only 19 percent, ensuring her continued representation of Dearborn and bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
, areas with significant Arab-American populations.

Tlaib has been one of Congress's most vocal critics of US support for Israel's war on Gaza, advocating for a suspension of arms supplies and condemning the Biden administration's military and diplomatic backing of Israel.
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10325 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good we still have a voice for peace and reason in the House.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:34 Comments || Top||


Ilhan Omar secures reelection, defeats pro-Israel opponent
[NEWARAB] Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu...
of Minnesota secured re-election to the US House of Representatives, overcoming a pro-Israel Republican opponent and reinforcing her role as a prominent progressive voice in the US legislature.

Omar claimed her third term representing the 5th District, which covers Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, with a decisive 76.4 percent of the vote over Republican challenger Dalia al-Aqidi's 23.6 percent, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

"Tonight, Minnesota's Fifth District showed the country what we believe in," Omar said in a statement. "I am so grateful that my constituents placed their trust in me and voted to send me back to Congress for a fourth term."

Her victory follows a challenging primary earlier in the year, when pro-Israel groups, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), backed an attempt to unseat her.

Omar successfully overcame this opposition, raising $1.6 million compared to her primary opponent Don Samuels' $535,000.

Her resounding win against al-Aqidi affirms her constituents' support despite attempts to unseat her.
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#1  Muslims will NOT vote for a pro-israel candidate
Posted by: anon1 || 11/07/2024 1:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Good to see. Was worried that we might miss her familiarly with the exciting and innovative problem solving techniques that have made Somalia such a success on all fronts.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:33 Comments || Top||


Slotkin wins over Mike Rogers in tight Michigan Senate race to hold seat for Democrats
[Washington Examiner] Michigan’s open Senate seat will stay in Democratic hands after Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) defeated Republican Mike Rogers in one of the most competitive races of the 2024 cycle.

Slotkin won by a thin margin, securing 48.6% of the vote compared to Rogers’s 48.3%, according to the Associated Press.

Her victory, called Wednesday afternoon, continues a streak of Democratic dominance in statewide races. No Republican has won a Michigan Senate seat since 1994.

In this case, a win for Slotkin is a win for republicans and the nation.

It also denies Republicans additional breathing room in a chamber they will control next year. Slotkin will replace retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), a titan of Michigan politics who rose to Senate Democrats’ No. 3 leadership post.

Michigan had one of the only competitive Senate races without an incumbent this cycle, making it a top target for Senate Republicans. In the final days of the campaign alone, the leading super PACs for each party spent almost $20 million on advertising in the state.


Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10325 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How bad is Rogers?
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, Aegis (6 shadow company) hired the Congressman's (former FBI agent and HPSCI Chair's) wife. Great boost for Aegis business development. Smoke in the TeePee over State Department contracts led to both of them resigning and 'spending more time with the family.' Articles on the mini-scandal have mostly disappeared from Google.

From Aegis to Aspen to P2P
Rogers’ early experience includes working with the departments of Transportation, Defense and U.S Customs and Border Protection.

Among her top career experiences is her work growing the D.C. office for London-based risk management and security company Aegis LLC, where she was president and CEO 2006 to 2011.

“I pitched the idea to establish a U.S. company to the British board of directors, which included Britain’s last five-star general,” Rogers said. “After serious deliberation and questioning, the board agreed. I responded, ‘Great! Now, we need to find someone to do it.’ The board laughed and responded, ‘Well, that would be you.’”

Within five years, the D.C.-based operation had expanded from two people to just under 1,000.


Link to story found here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2024 16:36 Comments || Top||


New Los Angeles DA vows to reverse predecessor''s ''social experiments''
[POLITICO] Los Angeles' newly elected district attorney is vowing to take a tougher-on-crime approach and rebuild trust within an office in open rebellion against progressive George Gascon, whom voters have resoundingly ousted.

Nathan Hochman, a Republican-turned-independent former prosecutor and defense attorney, cruised to a victory early Wednesday morning on a message of reversing what he's called Gasc n's ''social experiments'' and tapping into state laws that allow district attorneys to take a heavier-handed approach to prosecuting property crimes.
Woo hoo!
He's the latest in a wave of centrist and conservative DAs who've unseated progressive incumbents on the West Coast.

But Hochman stopped short of casting his campaign as a repudiation of criminal justice reform, instead focusing his campaign squarely on Gasc n and promising to restore a district attorney's office that has been roiled by internal rancor over Gasc n's progressive policies. The DA faced sharp criticism amid a spike in property crimes like car thefts and shoplifting.

That message permeated his watch party in Beverly Hills throughout Tuesday night. Videos played on large screens featured crime victims and their families telling stories about how Gasc n had abandoned them, interspersed with critiques from prosecutors who say the office's policies have obstructed their jobs and forced hundreds of staff members to leave.

''I have worked for five different district attorneys, both Democrat and Republican,'' said Jessie McGrath, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney. ''But the level of mismanagement and incompetence that I have witnessed over the last three and a half years from this administration has been staggering.''
Yeah…
Gasc n offered a defiant concession message Wednesday morning as he trailed by more than 20 percent.

''The rightward shift across America last night is heartbreaking,'' he said in a statement. ''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...
have a long road ahead, but the work is more vital than ever and our commitment will not waver.

''Nevertheless, I have called Mr. Hochman and wish him the best as Los Angeles County's next District Attorney,'' he continued. ''I'm deeply proud of what we've accomplished over the past four years and grateful to the communities who have been and will always be the heart of criminal justice reform.''


Posted by: || 11/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10325 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ALL DA offices must be based on written law. NOT a Social or Poltical Agenda. The LA DA should be put of trial for abuse of office.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2024 2:52 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ or 'accessory-after-the-fact'
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2024 8:10 Comments || Top||


#4  ^How much federal money and out of state electricity/water California gets?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/07/2024 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Aiming to Boost Supply of Clean Water, Israel Connects Power Line to Gaza Desalination Plant

How's that working for you?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2024 10:04 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 The point is: if California doesn't cooperate ...
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/07/2024 10:22 Comments || Top||

#7  LA is sort of a fixer upper at this point. Maybe he should hire Joanne Gaines and freight in some ship lap.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:28 Comments || Top||

#8  You can only lose so many retail establishments before people begin to think they need a course correction.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/07/2024 13:09 Comments || Top||

#9  But, unfortunately, Los Angeles remains a bastion of lunacy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/07/2024 13:10 Comments || Top||


Embattled Oakland Dem Mayor Sheng Thao Recalled In Landslide
[DC] Oakland voters recalled Thao by a margin over 30 points as of Wednesday, according to the unofficial Alameda County vote count and local reports. Thao assumed office in January 2023, with a city-wide crime report from that year revealed that motor vehicle thefts increased 44%, incidents of robbery increased 38%, and violent crime increased 21%.

Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10325 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  Oakland Voters Poised to Recall Left-wing Mayor Sheng Thao
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2024 10:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Too bad Gary Coleman has passed. He was a big proponent of security.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:17 Comments || Top||


RFK Jr. says ‘entire departments' at FDA ‘have to go'
[The Hill] Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is slated to hold a potentially big role in a new Trump administration, said Wednesday there are "entire departments" within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that "have to go."

"In some categories... there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA... that have to go, that are not doing their job, they’re not protecting our kids," Kennedy said during an interview on MSNBC.

"We don’t know what I’m going to do. I talked to the president about it yesterday, and he asked me what I wanted, and I said, we’re developing a proposal now," Kennedy said during a separate interview with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, who asked if Kennedy is getting the job of Health and Human Services secretary.

That job would require Senate confirmation. Republicans appear likely to have a majority in the Senate of at least 52 seats, but it is unclear how easy it would be to get Kennedy confirmed. There has been plenty of speculation that Kennedy would serve in a role that does not require Senate confirmation.
I don’t think he has large-organization managerial experience, so better if he remains an advisor, leaving the day-to-day to someone more suited.

Posted by: Bobby || 11/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10327 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  YEs YES YES

OK Trump has won and i am glad
But please please please almighty god hold him to his word and put THIS man in charge of health

Head of FDA

Head of Dept of HHS

YES
Posted by: anon1 || 11/07/2024 1:39 Comments || Top||

#3  If RFK Jr can release the data we know they collected on the clot shots

Then Australia will have no choice but to also retreat from mandated jabs

We are still being forced to have them under threat of our jobs and it all came from here

It only needs one big country to free the data and we will all have to follow because then our countries cannot keep lying to the people

SO many dead and injured — SO many cancers because of this repurposed gene therapy bullsh*t
Posted by: anon1 || 11/07/2024 1:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Ken Paxton for attorney general!
Brandon Herrera for heading up the ATF.
Tap the head of the Texas Rangers for FBI director or maybe Sheriff Grady "Evil can't be dead enough" Judd for director.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/07/2024 5:08 Comments || Top||

#5 

OK!

Suggestions for who should be the Trump White Press Sec. ?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2024 8:30 Comments || Top||

#6  If Kari doesn’t win a Senate Seat, I would like to see her as Press Secretary.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/07/2024 12:25 Comments || Top||

#7  How many FDA employees do you need to rubber stamp everything from Pfizer?
Posted by: Regular joe || 11/07/2024 14:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Press Sec. Hammer Charlie Kirk or Vivek
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/07/2024 16:24 Comments || Top||

#9  If Kari doesn’t win a Senate Seat, I would like to see her as Press Secretary.

Ambo to the UK. Chew on that one you Pommy SOB's.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2024 16:26 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ #3 Anon. -- I was 10% into RFK's Fan I book before I was swamped with data. I got the book from Amazon.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/07/2024 18:27 Comments || Top||

#11  My next book purchase. Coincidence on the title? I think not.



“'n Boer maak 'n plan” is a South African phrase that translates to "a farmer makes a plan". It's often used to describe creative and determined logistical solutions. For example, a moving company might use the phrase to describe a system they created to move large items out of a house without damaging the walls or furniture.
The word “Boer” is Dutch for “farmer”. The Boers were a group of white people who emigrated to South Africa, mainly from Holland. They were skilled in guerrilla warfare, but eventually surrendered to the British in 1902. The descendants of the Boers are called Afrikaners, and today they make up over half of South Africa's white population.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2024 18:31 Comments || Top||

#12  May I please nominate Prissy Wray and the entire 7th floor in the FBI for Gitmo? Pretty please?
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/07/2024 21:10 Comments || Top||


List of people that will be leaving the country because of a Trump victory.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

… 13. AOC
14. Lady Gaga
15. Taylor Swift
16. Bill Gates
17. Jane Fonda
18. Madonna
19. Mark Ruffalo
20. Kim Kardashian
21. Bruce Springsteen
22. George Clooney
23. Hunter Biden
24. Oprah
25. Robert De Niro
26. Samuel L Jackson
27. Miley Cyrus
28. Travis Kelce
29. Bobbi Althoff
30. Rashida Talib
31. Stormy Daniels
32. Dr. Anthony Fauci
33. George Soros
George but not his son? Interesting.
34. Diddy
35. Eminem
36. Ellen DeGeneres
37. Sean Penn
38. Sharon Stone
39. Ashley Judd
40. Tommy Lee
41. Bryan Cranston
42. Billie Joe Armstrong

Bonus
Cher will blow her brains out
Rob Reiner will set himself on fire
Bono vows to drive his car off a cliff
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10327 views] Top|| File under:

#1  America shrugs it's shoulders and says, "Well, bye!"
Posted by: SteveS || 11/07/2024 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  They'd better get out while the gettin's good, otherwise they'll end up in an internment camp. Right?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/07/2024 0:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Is Alec Baldwin allowed to leave the country?
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 11/07/2024 1:48 Comments || Top||

#4  We don’t want them here… release the epstein client list please president trump!
Posted by: anon1 || 11/07/2024 1:48 Comments || Top||

#5  And diddy is otherwise occupied.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 11/07/2024 1:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Gates , Soros, Fauci -> JAIL
Posted by: anon1 || 11/07/2024 1:49 Comments || Top||

#7 
How about they also renounce their US Citizenship and seek resettlement in North Korea ?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2024 3:28 Comments || Top||

#8  And if Stormy decides NOT to leave, she'll be so deep in her home it'll take 3 days to find her!
Posted by: Shuper Clairt5942 || 11/07/2024 5:02 Comments || Top||

#9  We could just air drop them into North Korea via B-2 bomber, from 60,000 feet.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/07/2024 5:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Dear celebs, Deep Blue States do not qualify for 'leaving the country'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/07/2024 6:52 Comments || Top||

#11  Pretty sure Hunter's passport was taken away
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2024 6:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Looks like a volunteer roll-call for Ukraine.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2024 7:29 Comments || Top||

#13  I approve the above deportations.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2024 7:41 Comments || Top||

#14 
Posted by: badanov || 11/07/2024 7:57 Comments || Top||

#15  Wonder how many of them even voted.

Trump's victory: Hollywood elite who vowed to leave US if he won are 'all talk, no walk,' expert says
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2024 8:23 Comments || Top||

#16  Let's not forget the ever bubbly Bette Midler. She of the Draino cocktail.
Posted by: Warthog || 11/07/2024 9:04 Comments || Top||


#18  Escape from Hollywood
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2024 11:16 Comments || Top||

#19  Too bad they're all so dishonest.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/07/2024 13:15 Comments || Top||

#20  Don't know if they threatened to leave, but Harrison Ford and Michael Keeton sure farted the dog with their Regular Man costuming and scold session.

Canada hell, I see a lot of Diddycrats on that list. Cambodia - child diddling, non extradition, looking at you Clooney.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2024 13:44 Comments || Top||

#21  Those choosing Canada may be in for a surprise.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/07/2024 19:17 Comments || Top||



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