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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Three Activists Charged with Burning Cross KKK Hoax to Benefit Black Mayoral Candidate
[NATIONALREVIEW] Local news outlets in Colorado Springs received a shocking email in late April of last year: A photo and video of a burning cross and a campaign sign of mayoral candidate Yemi Mobolade, a native of Nigeria, defaced with the N-word in red spray paint.

''What has this city come to?!'' read the email, signed only by ''Citizens of Colorado Springs.'' This, according to the email, was ''another one of their tactics to keep Yemi out.''

The writer then opined on who was likely behind the racist message: supporters of Mobolade's opponent, center-right Republican Wayne Williams. ''Candidate Wayne Williams is pushing hard to win this candidacy and I'm completely appalled by how his following and members are carrying out this nonsense.''

Local TV news ran with the story the next day. ''Some of the video in this story may be difficult to watch,'' one anchor warned viewers.

''What's going on in Colorado Springs?'' asked a Rocky Mountain NAACP front man. ''Why is an African American who is running for mayor receiving these types of threats. It's 2023.''

The Colorado Springs NAACP president said she viewed the racist messaging as an attempt to intimidate voters. ''We don't take this as a hoax,'' she told a local Fox news hound.

It was a hoax, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, which charged three local activists this week with using instruments of interstate commerce to convey false information and ''to intimidate someone by means of fire,'' according to charging documents.

This latest alleged hate-crime hoax was perpetrated just four years after former Empire star Jussie Smollett

...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom...

famously staged a hate crime against himself, claiming in January 2019 that he was attacked by two men in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
who used racist and homophobic slurs and declared the deep-blue Windy City to be ''MAGA country.''

In mid-August, a Denver mom filed a lawsuit against the city's school board and two activists after one of the activists falsely accused her of calling him a ''dumb n*****'' at a board meeting and tried to get the police to file criminal charges against her.

In Colorado Springs, Derrick Bernard Jr. (aka Phoenixx Ugrilla), 35; Ashley Danielle Blackcloud, 40; and Deanna Crystal West (aka Vital Sweetz and Sage West), 38, are accused of conspiring to stage the phony hate crime and then alerting the media to prop up Mobolade's ultimately successful campaign. Bernard, who communicated with Mobolade several times before and after the election, also seemed to expect to benefit from the effort, texting Blackcloud on the day of the runoff election to apply for a city job because, he wrote, ''I want favors quicker than later.''

According to the indictment, Bernard, Blackcloud, and West were all affiliated with a nonprofit multi-media outlet, Family Flavors the Slide World Broadcast Network, which is dedicated to ''Activism, Community, & FAMILY!!'' according to an online profile.

The indictment indicates that Bernard hatched the plan to stage the hoax hate crime the day after the April 4, 2023 mayoral election, which sent Mobolade and Williams to a runoff. He texted Blackcloud, saying he wanted to talk ''in person'' and that ''Ima just talk to you bout a few plans.''

He would later tell Blackcloud in Facebook messages that Mobolade ''really won already'' and that the runoff was only being held ''bc they ain't tryna let an African win.''

''I can't let the klan retake the city,'' he wrote, according to the indictment.

In mid-April, Bernard also sent Mobolade a Facebook message: ''I know it's crunch time sir but look — I spoke with some of my friends in other places and theirs [sic] a plot amidst — I'm mobilizing my squadron in defense and for the final push. Black ops style big brother. The klan cannot be allowed to run this city again.''

Between 2:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. on April 23, 2023, Bernard, Blackcloud, and West worked together to deface the campaign sign with red spray paint, set the cross on fire, and film it on an iPhone 13, according to the indictment. Authorities later found a red spray paint can in the passenger compartment of Blackcloud's car, the indictment says.

Around 7:30 p.m. that night, Bernard texted Mobolade ''I guarantee the finish.'' A little over an hour later, Blackcloud and West drove to the parking lot of a large retail store, used the store's wi-fi, and created a new Gmail account. That account was then used to email a photo and video of the defaced sign and burning cross to local media, nonprofits, government officials, Mobolade's campaign, and to their own media group.

At about 10:55 p.m. that night, Bernard spoke with Mobolade on the phone for about five minutes, according to the indictment.

In a statement at the time to local media, Mobolade said he didn't know if the images were real or ''staged/created.'' ''Either way, it's reprehensible.''

On May 16, 2023, Mobolade, a businessman, pastor, and political independent, won the election with 57 percent of the vote, routing Williams, a city councilman and former secretary of state. Bernard texted him that day, congratulating him, adding that ''we got you through it all brother'' and ''Another time though, we'll handle business.''

In a prepared statement to National Review, Mobolade denied knowledge or involvement in the alleged crime.
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11146 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Derrick Bernard Jr. (aka Phoenixx Ugrilla)
Deanna Crystal West (aka Vital Sweetz and Sage West)
Ashley Danielle Blackcloud


Maybe it's just me, but I'm thinking those idiot names are a clue right there.

Mike


Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 11/16/2024 8:37 Comments || Top||

#2  When you see this stuff, you now always guess hoax and are rarely wrong.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:13 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
The hate Americans first ‘fart cushion’ strikes a bakery. Video at link
[NYPost] NYC pols demand Whoopi Goldberg
…who became “Jewish” for business reasons, even though she can’t stand those people…
apologize for false Staten Island bakery slam — as store is flooded with orders

Staten Island leaders demanded Whoopi Goldberg apologize for falsely claiming a Big Apple bakery refused to serve her sweet treats because of her lefty politics — as the family-run business was inundated with orders.

"The View" co-host sparked widespread outrage this week when she alleged that the beloved 145-year-old Holtermann’s Bakery on Staten Island declined to make her a batch of Charlotte Russe desserts due to her political beliefs.

"Recently someone took to the national airwaves and defamed, frankly, this family business," borough president, Vito Fossella, fumed at a news conference held outside the bakery on Friday.

The bakery has insisted they were having mechanical issues with their 60-year-old boiler when Goldberg initially tried to place the Nov. 13 order so she could celebrate her 69th birthday on-air — and that her political beliefs had nothing to do with it.

The uproar unfolded when Goldberg first put the bakery on blast during Wednesday’s broadcast.

"Now, I should tell you, Charlotte Russe has no political leanings, and the place that made these refused to make them for me," the liberal-leaning host alleged to her audience, without divulging the name of the bakery.

"They said that their ovens had gone down, all kinds of stuff, but folks went and got them anyway, which is why I’m not telling you who made them."

Now, in the wake of Goldberg’s disparaging remarks, owner Jill Holtermann said they’ve been flooded with orders from across the country.

"I really am overwhelmed," Holtermann told The Post. "I’m so happy to have the support. Just to have people come out and talk and build up my business."

The owner said she’s had people calling up from as far as Alabama and Tennessee so they can donate orders of baked goods to nearby schools and first responders in a bid to drum up business.

Posted by: Woodrow || 11/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  What an awful person.

Hockey checks are understandable within the context of the game and on the ice.

This though, this diabetes pushing shit wig wearing stank foot is going into the stands and whomping someone with a punch down, because she's having a bad feelz day.

Sue the cottage cheese off her ass.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2024 10:03 Comments || Top||

#2  The View: We are the strongest case for matriarchy

Also The View:

btw, that shit on her chest, she pass out early at a party or something?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2024 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Their boiler issue was a health benefit for her.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:06 Comments || Top||

#4  'I didnt get my 2 dozen snacky s'mores in 5 minutes! Respect my author-i-tah!'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2024 15:14 Comments || Top||

#5  "Sue the cottage cheese off her ass."

Please, anything but that!
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/16/2024 20:45 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
House booze store
[X]


Posted by: 3dc || 11/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  HSA qualified medical expenses
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2024 10:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Let’s see the receipts. We paid the bill.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Make it Nancy's new Congressional office. It'll save her walking (to the store or up to vote).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2024 18:27 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Daughters of Malcolm X sue FBI, CIA and NYPD for $100M over 1965 assassination
[FoxNews] Malcolm X was killed Feb. 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Upper Manhattan while speaking to several hundred people

The daughters of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X are suing the FBI, CIA and New York Police Department, accusing all three agencies of having roles in the 1965 assassination of their father.

The $100 million lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan federal court, claims the agencies were aware of and failed to stop the killing. Attorney Ben Crump, who represents the daughters and the Malcolm X estate, said the federal government and various agencies all conspired to kill the civil rights leader.

The lawsuit alleges there was a "corrupt, unlawful, and unconstitutional" relationship between law enforcement and "ruthless killers that went unchecked for many years and was actively concealed, condoned, protected, and facilitated by government agents," leading up to the murder of Malcolm X.

"The government's fingerprints are all over the assassination of Malcolm X," Crump said during a news conference. "We believe we have the evidence to prove it."

Malcolm X’s wife, Betty Shabazz, the plaintiffs "and their entire family have suffered the pain of the unknown" for decades, the lawsuit states.

"They did not know who murdered Malcolm X, why he was murdered, the level of NYPD, FBI and CIA orchestration, the identity of the governmental agents who conspired to ensure his demise, or who fraudulently covered-up their role," it states. "The damage caused to the Shabazz family is unimaginable, immense, and irreparable."

Attorneys also cited the killing of other Black leaders, such as the 1969 killing of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton by Chicago Police officers while he was asleep in a Chicago apartment and COINTELPRO, a series of covert FBI operations aimed at discrediting and disrupting political groups perceived as subversive.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the CIA. The FBI and NYPD told Fox News Digital the agencies don't comment on pending litigation.

Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, was killed Feb. 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Upper Manhattan while speaking to several hundred people. He was shot 21 times. His wife and daughters were among those in the audience.

Three men were convicted of crimes in the death but two of them were exonerated in 2021 after investigators took a fresh look at the case and concluded some evidence was shaky and authorities had held back some information.

Mustafa Hassan, who said he was a part of Malcolm X’s security detail at the ballroom, said he tried to stop an armed man, later identified as Thomas Hagan, a.k.a. "Talmadge X Hayer," from fleeing.

Police officers intervened to stop Malcolm’s followers from beating Hayer. Hassan claimed he heard officers asking each other, "Is he with us?"

Malcolm X preached a more radical message than his contemporary, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He gained prominence as a major voice of the Nation of Islam, advocating for Black people to claim their civil rights "by any means necessary."

He eventually split from the militant group, which branded him a traitor.



Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2024 01:40 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This could get interesting.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2024 10:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope the daughters publicly disclose every document they uncover.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/16/2024 11:18 Comments || Top||

#3  I never would have expected the allies that we now have.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:04 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Why not? The educated, as distinct from merely credentialed, Blacks remember what came after "the reconstruction".
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/16/2024 13:15 Comments || Top||

#5  "Attorney Ben Crump..."In 2012, after Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman, in a suburb of Orlando, Martin’s family hired Crump,... Two years later, Crump took on another high-profile case, after Michael Brown was shot dead by Darren Wilson, a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri... Now Crump is representing the family of George Floyd, who was killed, three weeks ago, by Derek Chauvin, a cop in Minneapolis ..."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/the-winningest-losing-civil-rights-lawyer
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/16/2024 14:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Growing up, I thought this was a fever dream.

Today, well, maybe these OG Tinfoils need their chance to bat.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2024 15:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Crump is a racialist-pimp ambulance chaser. Listen to him talk and tell me he's a genius
Posted by: Frank G || 11/16/2024 18:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Pennsylvania Democrats openly admit to counting illegal ballots in McCormick-Casey race
[FoxNews] Ongoing disputes in the Senate race between declared winner Dave McCormick (R) and incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D) concern whether disqualified ballots should be counted

As the contested Pennsylvania Senate race barrels towards a $1 million recount, Democratic officials in a few blue counties are openly admitting to counting disqualified ballots in defiance of state law and court orders.

The Associated Press has called the race for Republican Sen.-elect Dave McCormick, who currently holds a 26,000 vote lead over incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. But Casey has refused to concede and insisted that every vote be counted. The close margin – within one percentage point – triggered an automatic recount under Pennsylvania law.

Yet the critical question is which votes should be counted? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled before the election that mail ballots lacking formally required signatures or dates should not be included in official results. However, Democratic officials in Philadelphia and surrounding Bucks, Centre and Montgomery counties are ignoring that court order.

"I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country," Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Democrat, said Thursday as she and other Democrats voted to reject a GOP-led challenge to ballots that should be disqualified.

"People violate laws anytime they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention. There’s nothing more important than counting votes."

Officials estimate there are fewer than 80,000 provisional ballots left to be counted across the Keystone State, less than two percent of the vote, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. While the chance that Casey could make up his deficit is small, his attorneys and McCormick's have repeatedly clashed at county commissioner meetings this week as local officials have debated over whether to count small handfuls of ballots.
Might not make a difference for the senators race, but very likely some local seats will change parties as a result.
Democrats insist they are acting in good faith in believing that rejecting someone's vote because of a clerical error violates their constitutional rights.

In Montgomery County, for example, officials deliberated for 30 minutes over whether about 180 provisional ballots without secrecy envelopes should be counted. The Inquirer reported that several of these votes came from the same precincts, suggesting an error made by poll workers.

Democratic board chair Neil Makhija voted to accept the ballots so that voters would not be disenfranchised. But other members of the board, including one Democrat and a Republican, voted to reject the ballots on the advice of county attorneys who determined the law clearly states they should not be counted.

"We’re talking about constitutional rights and I cannot take an action to throw out someone’s ballot that is validly cast, otherwise, over an issue that we know ... is immaterial," Makhija said during Thursday's meeting. The board ultimately voted to count a total of 501 contested ballots.

Similar disputes over hundreds of votes have played out in Bucks, Chester and Delaware Counties.

Separately, there is ongoing litigation over undated mail ballots or those submitted with an incorrect date on the outer envelope. Several local Democratic officials have said an incorrect date should not be grounds to disqualify a person's vote. Lower courts have agreed with that reasoning, but Pennsylvania's high court has determined the law requires correct dates for mail ballots to be counted.

The McCormick campaign and Republican National Committee have asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reaffirm its Nov. 1 decision to stop Democrats from including undated mail ballots in their final tallies. The Casey campaign and the Pennsylvania Department of State have countered with legal motions arguing that the counties should be left alone and that the high court need not intervene as the challenges work their way through the appellate process.

The open defiance of court precedent has prompted Republicans to cry foul.

"Let’s be clear about what’s happening here: Democrats in Pennsylvania are brazenly trying to break the law by attempting to count illegal ballots. They are doing this because they want to steal a senate seat," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley wrote on X.

He said the RNC has filed four lawsuits contesting county decisions on undated ballots and vowed to "fight for as long as necessary" to ensure that McCormick's victory is upheld.

"This is the exact kind of left-wing election interference that undermines voter confidence," Whatley said.

Democrats have defended their actions and pointed out that McCormick himself had argued to count contested ballots when he trailed celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in the 2022 Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

In that case, McCormick’s lawyer told a state judge that the object of Pennsylvania’s election law is to let people vote, "not to play games of ‘gotcha’ with them."

There are potentially thousands of mail-in ballots with wrong or missing dates on the return envelope across the state, though most counties have not moved to count them.

A state-mandated recount must be finished by noon on Nov. 26. Officials have said they do not expect the process to change the outcome of the race by more than a few hundred votes.

Both McCormick and Casey were in Washington, D.C., this week. Casey participated in official Senate business and cast votes on the floor while McCormick attended new member orientation and met with other members of the new Republican majority to vote for conference leadership.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2024 10:38 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If there is no accountability, then the laws were just suggestions.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:01 Comments || Top||

#2  No one is above the law, but lots of us are beyond it!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/16/2024 14:24 Comments || Top||

#3  If they broke the law, prosecute them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/16/2024 17:31 Comments || Top||


Deep State Creep John Brennan Has the Nerve to Question Tulsi Gabbard's Fitness for National Security Role (VIDEO)
[Real Clear Politics] JOHN BRENNAN: Clearly, Tulsi Gabbard has taken actions and made statements over the past several years that raise serious questions about her common sense, judgment, and political sympathies. Cozying up to Putin as well as to Bashar al-Assad shows she doesn't have the type of perspective needed for someone who is going to head up these 18 intelligence agencies.

As Tom Nichols said, she doesn't have any qualifications. The Director of National Intelligence is a serious and complex position that requires someone who actually understands the intelligence community. It’s like an orchestra conductor for all the different agencies and departments involved in the intelligence process. I don’t think she understands the instruments involved in this orchestra, nor has she had any experience at the strategic level of running and leading a large, complex organization.

The Director of National Intelligence is, according to legislation, the President’s principal intelligence adviser, responsible for ensuring the President’s daily brief is put together in a sound and forthright manner. This person also puts together the budget and sets the priorities for the intelligence community. This appointment is sending shockwaves not only in the United States but also around the globe. Is this really someone Donald Trump is going to entrust with the care and leadership of the intelligence community? An unserious pick for a serious position.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2024 05:34 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gabbard has no loyalty to the Klingtons or their agenda. Therein lies Brennan's problem. Expect to see some grey beard intel experts within arms reach of Gabbards office on day one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2024 5:52 Comments || Top||

#2  "Is this really someone Donald Trump is going to entrust with the care and leadership of the intelligence community?"

I suppose you think YOU (CREEPY JOHN BRENNAN?) would be a better choice? The last thing the USA is a traitor like you in any position of responsibility.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/16/2024 7:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I love it when someone starts their argument with, "Clearly".

'Obviously', you're a moron if you don't agree.

Hey, that works, too!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/16/2024 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  This is the guy who is / was in the US Communist Party, right? Funny how that's never brought up.
Posted by: Raj || 11/16/2024 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Brennan has a lot to answer for from previous administration. He's not fit to weigh in on Gabbard. He's part of the rot.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/16/2024 10:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Take his clearance.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:03 Comments || Top||


Eva Longoria reveals she has fled ''dystopian'' America with her family and is now living in Mexico and Spain
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Eva Longoria fled 'dystopian' America and is 'privileged' to now be living in Mexico and Spain with her family.
Eva Longoria? Wow. Who'da thunkit. Anybody know who she is?
The Texas born actress, who has spent her 'whole adult life' in California, says she feels the American 'chapter in my life is done now' and no longer wants to live in Los Angeles, alleging the city has been 'changing'.
Spent her 'whole adult life' in California? That does explain a lot.
Longoria, who has Spanish citizenship, and her producer husband Jose Baston, a native of Mexico, have been living abroad with their six-year-old son Santiago while she works on her CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
miniseries Searching for Spain - a follow up to last year's Searching for Mexico.
I know right where it is: About 150 miles south of where I sit right this moment. I'll do a CNN miniseries called "Finding Mexico" for CNN if they'll give me lotsa money. I know where Spain is too, if they have even more money.
The Desperate Housewives actress, who campaigned hard for Kamala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress
to win the presidential election, fears that if Donald Trump 'keeps his promises' the US will be a 'scary place'.
I ain'ta scared o' no Trump. I somehow managed to survive Sleepy Joe and Jill.
'I get to escape and go somewhere,' the Flamin' Hot director, 49, told Marie Claire magazine. 'Most Americans aren't so lucky. They're going to be stuck in this dystopian country, and my anxiety and sadness is for them.'
Escaping to Messico seems like going from the frying pan in the cabinet directly into the fire, but maybe that's just me.
It comes as Trump has started to fill key posts in his second administration and sent shockwaves through the Republican party on Wednesday night with his announcement that he'll nominate Matt Gaetz as his Attorney General.
As opposed to "respected jurist" and Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. Right.
Keeping with the trend to stock his Cabinet with MAGA allies rather than veteran professionals in their requisite fields, Trump also named Elon Musk for a new cost- and waste-cutting role, Fox News host Pete Hegseth to run the sprawling Defense Department, and Tulsi Gabbard - who infuriated critics with claims about 'biolabs' in Ukraine -
... and for leaving the Dems...
to be Director of National Intelligence.




Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More good news!
Posted by: Oregon Dave || 11/16/2024 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Who???
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/16/2024 2:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Is it Who is Eva Longoria?
or
Eva Longoria leaves and who cares?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/16/2024 3:10 Comments || Top||

#4  ....It's a good thing she's cute, because she's dumber than a bag of hammers.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 11/16/2024 4:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Kidnapping and ransom are a Mexican pastime. Let the fun begin.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2024 7:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Now, if they'd just quit running her Loreal commercials, it would be perfect.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/16/2024 8:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Adios, Cucaracha
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/16/2024 10:00 Comments || Top||

#8  She is leaving California for Mexico because there will be fewer Mexicans.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/16/2024 10:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Excuse to leave LA?

Searching for Spain - a follow up to last year's Searching for Mexico.

Sounds like a shell to make visiting the family a tax write off.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2024 10:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Meh. Don't let the door hit you in the arse.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/16/2024 10:55 Comments || Top||

#11  She aged out of being a Hollywood actress. Not worth hanging around for those aubuela roles.
Posted by: Regular joe || 11/16/2024 13:02 Comments || Top||

#12  I guess she’ll need to brush up on her Spanish.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:08 Comments || Top||

#13  'Greetings fellow Latinxs, how do you do?'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2024 15:01 Comments || Top||

#14  The border truck stops are going to miss her. Rates so low they were below the beltline.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/16/2024 20:47 Comments || Top||


Ben & Jerry's sues Unilever, accusing it of silencing pro-Palestinian stance on Gaza
I think that's a fine idea. Everyone should be reminded just what their overpriced product stands for. Unilever doesn't, naturally, since they make their living selling it.
[TIMESOFISRAEL] Ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that parent company Unilever has silenced its attempts to express support for Paleostinians 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...
amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
war, and threatened to dismantle its board and sue its members over the issue.

The lawsuit is the latest sign of the long-simmering tensions between Ben & Jerry's and consumer products maker Unilever. A rift erupted between the two in 2021 after Ben & Jerry's said it would stop selling its products in what it termed ''Occupied Paleostinian Territory'' because it was inconsistent with its values, a move that led some investors to divest Unilever shares.

The American ice cream maker then sued Unilever for selling its business in Israel to its licensee there, which allowed marketing in the West Bank and Israel to continue. That lawsuit was settled in 2022.

In its new lawsuit, Ben & Jerry's says that Unilever has breached the terms of the 2022 settlement, which has remained confidential. As part of the agreement, Unilever is required to ''respect and acknowledge the Ben & Jerry's independent board's primary responsibility over Ben & Jerry's social mission,'' according to the lawsuit.

''Ben & Jerry's has on four occasions attempted to publicly speak out in support of peace and human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
,'' according to the lawsuit. ''Unilever has silenced each of these efforts.''
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Quit them back in 2020 when they went mouthy political.



Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/16/2024 3:37 Comments || Top||

#2  So, suing the people who you sold the business to because they want to make money.
That's gonna encourage people to take you seriously.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/16/2024 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  I predict that lawyers will get richer.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:10 Comments || Top||

#4  I worked at Haagen-Dazs corporate mpls. Ben and Jerry's was considered stoner snack food.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/16/2024 20:46 Comments || Top||


Nancy Pelosi Files Campaign Paperwork for 2026 Reelection
[BREITBART] Rep. Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
(D-CA) has filed to run for reelection in 2026 even as she is reportedly doing ''terrible'' after President-elect Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
's massive victory and Republicans taking the Senate and retaining the House majority.

The 84-year-old career politician, whose district covers the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
, has been in the House since 1987 and remains so after winning a 20th term last week.

She made her thoughts clear on the election outcome by saying 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...
might have fared better if President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented...
had exited the race sooner and gone before the party turned on him.
Posted by: Fred || 11/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:



#3  "You've got to pass Obamascare before you can read it" Nancy. She's running again? As stuff is declassified, she may really be running.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/16/2024 10:52 Comments || Top||

#4  She has to run or she loses control of the evidence.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2024 14:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Insider trading protection alone is worth the effort. "Pelosi, along with her husband, venture capitalist Paul Pelosi, has an estimated net worth of more than $230 million according to Quiver Quantitative."

https://www.investopedia.com/nancy-pelosi-net-worth-8690668
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/16/2024 14:38 Comments || Top||

#7  ...where she is headed soon enough, that won't help her much.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2024 18:28 Comments || Top||


Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit
[Reuters] President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Ending the tax credit could have grave implications for an already stalling U.S. EV transition. And yet representatives of Tesla (TSLA.O) - by far the nation's biggest EV maker - have told a Trump-transition committee they support ending the subsidy, said the two sources, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one of Trump's biggest backers and the world's richest person, said in July that killing the subsidy might slightly hurt Tesla sales but would be "devastating" to its U.S. EV competitors, which include legacy automakers such as General Motors (GM.N).

Shares of Tesla ended nearly 6% lower at $311.18, while shares of smaller EV rival Rivian (RIVN.O) closed down 14% at $10.31. Lucid (LCID.O), another EV maker, tumbled 5% to $2.08.

Repealing the subsidy, a signature measure of Democratic President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), is being discussed in meetings by an energy-policy transition team led by billionaire oilman Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources, and Republican North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, the two sources said.

The group has met several times since Trump's Nov. 5 election victory, including at his Florida Mar-a-Lago club, where Musk has also spent considerable time since the election.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. Only thing propping up that fake market.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/16/2024 2:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Kill CAFE standards and ERIC. Just go red wedding on all the crap.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:17 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
UN Manager Claims WAR is the Only Way to Make Serious Cash, Says ''Lazy” Staff Were Rooting for Nikki Haley for U.S. President over Trump
[ProjectVeritas] Key Quotes from Gagan Vaseer, Program Management Officer, United Nations:
  • “The only way you make money in the UN is if you go to war… you get paid more.

  • “There’s a lot of lazy people. 90% [of United Nations employees] are squatting. I could point to people every single day in the building who don’t work.”

  • “Look at… what’s happening in the Middle East. They can’t figure it out because [the UN is] … a very archaic organization.”

  • "What is the UN? It’s an amorphous body of nothingness.”

A United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
manager of peacekeeping has just said the quiet part out loud: war is good for UN employees. Gagan Vaseer, UN Program Management Officer for innovation and peacekeeping, told a Project Veritas journalist that UN employees only rake in serious cash when wars are raging around the globe. To make things more interesting, he revealed that their preferred Presidential candidate was none other than Republican Warhawk Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's former ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
In a meeting with a Veritas investigative journalist, Vaseer pulls back the curtain on the UN’s supposed political neutrality, revealing that behind the scenes, employees favored Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
—and more recently, Nikki Haley—for President. According to Vaseer, the United Nations is firmly opposed to Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s presidency and doesn’t want him in office.

The United Nations (UN) was founded to maintain peace, foster friendly relations among nations, and promote global cooperation. But according to Vaseer, the UN is failing to deliver on these goals. He claims the organization is inefficient, outdated, and that ninety percent of its employees are "lazy" and "squatting" - collecting paychecks off the suffering of the world.paid more." - Gagan Vaseer, Program Management Officer, United Nations

He paints a picture of the United Nations headquarters in New York, where the majority of employees "don’t work," are never evaluated, and can’t be fired as they coast toward retirement. "They’re just taking up space," he says.

As wars continue to rage in the Middle East, Vaseer offers little hope for a UN peace solution, stating, "They can’t figure it out because [the UN is]... a very archaic organization."

Perhaps not coincidentally, Vaseer reveals that UN employees earn more during wartime, creating a perverse incentive for them to keep conflicts simmering rather than working to resolve them.

Established in 1945 in the wake of World War II, the formation of the UN was intended to correct the failures of the League of Nations, which had been powerless to prevent the war. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
U.S. involvement in the UN has been contentious from the start. Alger Hiss, an American diplomat and key architect of the UN who also served as its first secretary-general, is infamous for being one of the most notorious American traitors in history—having betrayed the U.S. as a Soviet spy.

With over 190 member states and countless agencies, the UN is often criticized for being too large and fragmented to effectively solve global issues, such as conflict, poverty, and human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
abuses.

Vaseer echoes this criticism describing the UN as "amorphous body of nothingness" that lacks clear purpose and fails to deliver on its promises.

This week, President-Elect Donald Trump appointed Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as the incoming U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In an online statement, she declared, "I stand ready to advance President Donald J. Trump’s restoration of America First peace through strength leadership on the world stage on Day One at the United Nations."

However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
Vaseer told Project Veritas that the United Nations does not align with Trump’s America First agenda. It remains to be seen how the "lazy" employees at the UN will respond to a shift in U.S. leadership under Trump and Stefanik.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sort of amazing what stupid things these people admit once lubricated and enticed.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/16/2024 13:12 Comments || Top||



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