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RUMINT: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei In Coma After 'Serious Illness'? Dead?? Fact-Checking Claim
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-Land of the Free
From Dinner With Donald Trump: We have not forgotten you. Hold on. Justice is coming
[X]

… The first song Trump played gave the entire club chills…

Trump played “Justice For All” a patriotic song he recorded with the J6 Prison Choir, a group of 20 men imprisoned after the riot at the United States Capitol. The profits from the song are dedicated to the legal aid for political prisoners incarcerated by the Biden regime.

The entire club stood in reverent silence as the haunting song rung out across the cavernous halls.

This was a defiant message from President-Elect Trump to January 6th political prisoners: ‘We have not forgotten you. Hold on. Justice is coming…’⚡️
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2024 12:30 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chilling message for some. Hopeful for us.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/17/2024 15:20 Comments || Top||

#2  You want chilling message: Biden allows Ukraine to use US arms to strike inside Russia
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/17/2024 15:40 Comments || Top||


Trump Is Suing the Mainstream Media-- and They Ought to Be Afraid
[Townhall] President-elect Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
filed a lawsuit on Friday, vowing to bring justice to his name after years of attacks from the mainstream media.

The incoming 47th president announced he is suing several media outlets, including the New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

, CBS News, Penguin Random House, and the Daily Beast, alleging widespread bias and defamation. Trump’s lawyer, Edward Andrew Paltzik, demands $10 billion in damages for publishing defamatory material.

In the lawsuit, Trump accused the mainstream media of "defaming and disparaging" him during coverage of the election and making "false and defamatory statements."

The NYT was at the center of the lawsuit. In the 19-page filing, Trump’s lawyers wrote that the newspaper has been "a full-throated mouthpiece of the Democratic party" that engages in "industrial-scale libel against political opponents." They also accused the publication of having "every intention of defaming and disparaging the world-renowned Trump brand that consumers have long associated with excellence, luxury, and success in entertainment, hospitality, and real estate, among many other industries, as well as falsely and maliciously defaming and disparaging him as a candidate for the highest office in the United States."

The lawsuit specifically mentions the work written by journalists Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner, including a book titled Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success. Another headline was "As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator."

The New York Times denied the claims, insisting its reporting has been accurate and evidence-based. CBS News also brushed off the allegations, dismissing the lawsuit as "completely without merit." The Washington Post called the claims "improper" and "baseless." Penguin Random House also stood by their reporting.

Critics claim the lawsuits incite attacks on press freedom, raising concerns about the future of the media.
The process IS the punishment as Libs used to like to say
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2024 2024-11-17 00:36 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
KARMA STRIKES AGAIN

Using the Lefts own LAWFARE tactics against it.

Besides, what honest judge or jury would believe the WaPo, the MSM or NYT's claim, insisting its reporting has been accurate and evidence-based

The Left better be Judge shopping and ask for a Judge, not a jury ruling.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/17/2024 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  The SCOTUS Sullivan decision is in direct contradiction to the 14th Amendment guarantee of 'equal protection before the law'. There is not 'private' or 'public' person. We are just citizens.
Like Rowe, it undermined the text of the Constitution.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/17/2024 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  What he is saying is true but not new. The newspapers have been shilling since George Washington was chilling.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/17/2024 10:18 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
The 'Wokeness' Purge Has Already Begun
The headline is a tad overexcited: the work necessary to purge the woke has begun. Purges will follow after the information is collected.
[RedState] President-elect Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
has not even taken office yet, but Republicans have reportedly already started the effort to purge wokeness from the federal government.

Several conservative groups are currently in a campaign to identify federal employees who are partisan or possibly resistant to enacting Trump’s agenda, according to a CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
report. These groups include the Heritage Foundation Oversight Project and the American Accountability Foundation.

The organizations have flooded federal agencies with tens of thousands of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests demanding access to emails, personnel records, and other communications between babus government employees. The effort is part of a comprehensive strategy to lay the groundwork for mass firings of civil servants under Trump’s Schedule F executive order issued in 2020, which was later revoked under President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
The measure would reclassify certain federal positions that are involved in policy-making, policy determining, or policy-advocating roles in a way that would exempt them from typical civil service protections. This would make it easier for the president to fire these individuals.

Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Foundation Oversight Project, told CNN that his organization "has submitted around 65,000 requests to federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act."

The report continued:

The Department of Transportation, for example, has received about 1,600 FOIA requests through the first nine months of 2024, and about 1,075 came from three people all tied to the Heritage Foundation Oversight Project, according to a CNN review of the agency’s FOIA logs.

Howell has sent requests to these agencies to unearth “conspiracies to subvert the president-elect’s expected purging by asking for emails that include ‘Trump’ and ‘reduction in force.’”

The American Accountability Foundation recently published the names of 60 individuals in the Homeland Security Department (DHS) who they believe might try to hamper the president-elect’s agenda, CNN reported:

The list includes senior-level employees who donated to Democratic candidates or causes, previously worked for groups that advocate for more liberal immigration policies or posted on social media about their efforts to assist immigrants who arrived in the US seeking legal status.

The initiative also targets diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and those involved in promoting them in the federal government.

Predictably, this effort has frightened members of the bureaucracy in several federal agencies, who characterized it as “the potential weaponization of internal agency emails.” Some have even taken action to conceal their political leanings:

The efforts have alarmed agency officials and unions representing federal workers. One source for a union representing Environmental Protection Agency workers characterized the effort as the potential weaponization of internal agency emails. In response, the source said that EPA employees are “putting as little as possible in any written form.”

The union for EPA employees has submitted its own requests for information to get names of EPA employees who may be at risk, but it has not received a response because the agency’s FOIA office has been inundated with requests from Trump allies.

This initiative suggests that conservatives are learning their lesson from Trump’s first term in office, which dealt with bureaucrats and officials working to impede his agenda. The move will likely cause quite a stir on the airwaves and interwebs, especially if and when the mass firings begin after Trump takes office.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2024 2024-11-17 00:55 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems like this will be different. Let’s see where we end up when March rolls around. I expect this to make UFC look polite.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/17/2024 10:20 Comments || Top||



Democratic senators in the United States should investigate the assassination of John Kennedy
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Democratic senators in the United States should investigate the assassination of their fellow party member, President John Kennedy, rather than identifying the “ties” between businessman Elon Musk and Russia. This was stated on November 16 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

"I would like to advise Democratic senators to investigate the murder of their fellow party member, President Kennedy, as well as members of his family, who were cut down to the roots. For half a century, the American officialdom has been pretending not to understand what we are talking about," Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.

The diplomat added that, in parallel, senators could begin investigating the corruption of another of their fellow party members, current President Joe Biden, as well as his family and their criminal ties to the Kiev regime in sponsoring terrorism.

As reported by Regnum, Reuters reported that in the United States, Democratic senators have demanded that federal authorities conduct an investigation into allegations of Musk's contacts with Russia. Thus, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and Senator from New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen, and the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senator from Rhode Island, Jack Reed, wrote a letter to the Pentagon Inspector General and the Attorney General. They demanded an investigation and an assessment of whether Musk's company SpaceX should be disqualified from receiving government contracts.

Posted by: badanov || 11/17/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, git'em!

Family of Malcolm X Sues FBI, CIA, NYPD Over Alleged Roles in Assassination
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/17/2024 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2 
As a kid in the mid 1960's I was often hearing the adults saying.

JFK was killed because DC wanted / needed a war (Nam) and JFK wanted a US peaceful withdrawal.

Which JFK indicated in WH tapes and in public speeches.

The DC and Elite names that got $$$ rich off the Nam war likely don't want a real honest investigation. Which is why the JFK Doc's were sealed for 40 years and then delayed, delayed, delayed and still being delayed from being completely released, now 60+ years later.

What is DC hiding?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/17/2024 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Ref #2: "Hiding" the same thing they've been hiding in Ukraine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/17/2024 8:45 Comments || Top||

#4  This Russian writer is encouraging Dems Senators to do something that they will not do and 100% of thinking Americana will disregard the request as impossible immediately for various reasons. The person has shown up to a brain surgery and offered us a can of Campbells soup to help us out.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/17/2024 10:16 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Harris campaign struggling to pay senior staffers amid post-election financial straits
[Wash Examiner] Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is struggling to meet its financial promises to personnel amid continued hardships following the presidential election, according to reports.

The granular details of the Harris campaign’s current finances are not known, but a steady stream of leaks by disgruntled insiders close to the organization paint the picture of a tense cash crunch that’s left a bad taste in the mouth of many employees.
Really? They went there?
The campaign made the decision to freeze payments to its senior staffers this week — despite previous promises to keep those employed on the pay rolls through December, according to a report from the Associated Press.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/17/2024 06:14 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  But as we have seen, the Harris campaign paid
$$ MILLIONS to Hollywood, Entertainment and Race Pimps for endorsements.
Which leads me to think even they did not like her enough to endorse w/o the bribe $$$.

NOTE: IF she had become President, where would she have gotten the $$$$ to repay those in her campaign that it screwed over?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/17/2024 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  The Democratic Party has evolved into a money laundering operation. It's seemed that way for a while, but evidently that's all they do now.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/17/2024 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, and people lose in Vegas everyday.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/17/2024 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  "tens of millions allegedly misappropriated by Dasuki ended up funding luxury properties in Los Angeles, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and McLean, Virginia, a wealthy suburb of Washington, DC."

"The U.S. can and should do more, both morally and legally," Kande added.

Seize and auction the properties, Kammy.
The money is already laundered.
Call it a 'sanction'.
That's moral.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/17/2024 10:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Next time get you pay up front losers.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/17/2024 10:27 Comments || Top||

#6  And I thought her crushing defeat couldn't get better! Wrong again.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/17/2024 10:50 Comments || Top||


Checkmate on Senate preventing Matt Gaetz from being Attorney General ?
[X]
Posted by: 3dc || 11/17/2024 01:11 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Um - not the fight to pick right now.
Posted by: Raj || 11/17/2024 1:30 Comments || Top||

#2  The RINOS need to pass the torch and realize this is a new world...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/17/2024 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3 

AG Recess appointment?
A lot can get done quickly, and the DC Swamp fears it.

Next MAGA Mission - > "RINO's Need To Go"
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/17/2024 7:30 Comments || Top||

#4  The Smurfing of Act Blue and Act Red ought to be on GOJ’s Gantt Chart to prosecute regardless of whether Gaetz ends up in charge. If they shout down Gaetz, I’ll accept Mike Davis.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/17/2024 10:26 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 Please expand. For me, I'm on the All The Fights Camp. This is the exact moment to go all in, as they're too busy fighting amongst themselves. Strike boldly!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/17/2024 12:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Bongino on why Gaetz is so essential a wrecking ball for Main Justice and the FBI. The flak is always heaviest over the target...

https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1857971593793724432
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/17/2024 15:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Kurt Schlichter, November 7 - We need to break their stranglehold on our culture and our government. That can’t be done gently. It has to be done ruthlessly and harshly. After they literally tried to throw Trump in jail for the rest of his life and murder him, let’s hope our rebooted president understands that.

This is not the time to be nice. This is the time to rub their faces in their defeat. Somebody’s got to win this fight. I propose it be us.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/17/2024 15:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Let them expend their fire on Gaetz. 2nd place will dominate
Posted by: Frank G || 11/17/2024 16:51 Comments || Top||


Kamala Harris's Campaign Spent $12 Million on Private Jets
[Breitbart] Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign spent a whopping $2.6 million on private jets alone in just two weeks towards the end of her failing campaign, bringing its total private air travel costs to at least $12 million.

Finance records viewed by the New York Post revealed that the Harris campaign shelled out nearly $2.2 million to Florida company Private Jet Services Group and another $430,000 to Virginia company Advanced Aviation Team between October 1 and October 17.

The money spent on private jets as Election Day neared brought the campaign’s bill for the mode of transportation to a “staggering” $12 million, the outlet reported.

The total amount of money spent on private jets may be even higher after the last couple weeks of Harris’s campaign filings are published by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

She is now facing backlash for her “hypocrisy” by using such an un-environmentally-friendly method of travel.

Other things the campaign splurged on includes $12,097 on Uber Eats and DoorDash food and at least $12,081 on ice cream, the Post reported.

The Harris campaign fell $20 million in debt during the final week of her campaign, Breitbart News reported.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/17/2024 01:02 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The transportation cost that would be interesting is the busing cost. How many people were they moving people to rallies from where?
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/17/2024 10:22 Comments || Top||



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  RUMINT: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei In Coma After 'Serious Illness'? Dead?? Fact-Checking Claim
Sat 2024-11-16
  Iran signals it would support ceasefire in Lebanon, as Israel pounds Beirut
Fri 2024-11-15
  Surrey, BC, Canada ‘Go back to Europe - we are the owners of this Country’
Thu 2024-11-14
  After all the Israelis and Jews left Amsterdam, the Islamist rioters are now attacking native Dutch
Wed 2024-11-13
  Wilders: 'We must mass deport radical Islamists.'
Tue 2024-11-12
  Islamists march to demand Islamic Caliphate and Sharia law, set Amsterdam tram afire
Mon 2024-11-11
  President Trump Appoints Tom Homan to Position of ‘Border Czar’ in Charge of Deportation Program
Sun 2024-11-10
  Qatar has demanded that Hamas leave the country, is quitting mediation role — maybe
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  Switzerland resumes deportation of Afghan and Ukrainian ‘Criminal migrants’
Fri 2024-11-08
  Jews are being hunted by mobs in Amsterdam tonight.
Thu 2024-11-07
  Iran shoots down its own F4
Wed 2024-11-06
  Trump won in a landslde
Tue 2024-11-05
  Israel cancels agreement with UNRWA
Mon 2024-11-04
  Israel has captured so much Hezbollah weaponry that the IDF is planning an entirely new unit exclusively with Hezbollah arms
Sun 2024-11-03
  All the Hamas terrorists who paraded the body of Shani Louk in Gaza have been eliminated!


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