[JustTheNews] Facing a potential contempt of Congress vote, FBI Director Christopher Wray relented and has agreed to bring a subpoenaed document from the Biden family investigation to Capitol Hill for lawmakers to inspect on Monday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Friday. Curiouser and curiouser.
The document in question, an FD-1023, contains uncorroborated allegations that an informant provided the FBI in June 2020 alleging that Joe Biden, when he was vice president, was engaged in a bribery scheme to change US policy in return for $5 million to his family’s businesses, lawmakers have said.
As recently as Wednesday, Wray indicated he would not turn over the document in compliance with the subpoena, but would let lawmakers come read it at the FBI. But a deal was struck late Thursday for the FBI to bring the document to the Capitol, officials said.
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Of course it will be redacted and then they will have another big fight over that but it buys more time for Wray. He must figure that with any luck Comer won't be such a problem after the next election.
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Dammit, McCarthy, don't wait, get on with the defunding.
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Exactly Proco. If you surveyed the men who served under Bragg in the Army of Tennessee the vast majority would agree with changing the name from Fort Bragg.
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These base names were used as an olive branch by the army post civil war to sweeten the fact that they were going to station large numbers of troops in formerly hostile territory. Evidently we're not doing 'reconciliation' any more.
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06/03/2023 10:03 Comments ||
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...not to mention appealing to the vast number of southern boys they shipped out to die 1917-2020.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest threatened to kill him after the battle at Chickamauga Creek.
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Like so much else in the woke panoply, this ultimately is just a form of appeasement. Gratuitous changing of: names, academic standards, history, criminal statutes, affirmative-action, reparations, is just appeasement to "assuage" guilt for some and mollify "anger" and misbehavior by others. In all of history, appeasement, like Dane gelt or tribute, just buys momentary pauses followed by more blackmail, because it worked!
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/\ .....ultimately is just a form of appeasement. Gratuitous changing of: names, academic standards, history, criminal statutes, affirmative-action, reparations, is just appeasement to "assuage" guilt for some and mollify "anger" and misbehavior by others.
Exactly corret. Little more than boot licking and pandering.
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B, I would add "obsequius" to that. The Dems are suffering compound fractures with all the kneeling and genuflecting.
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06/03/2023 16:51 Comments ||
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They could name it Fort Fuckery for all I care. The military is being gutted with wokeness and until they actually get back to the job of breaking shit and killing people, I don't give a fuck.
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I will say that the Infantry Museum at Bragg is first rate. Or at least was, the last time I was there. The Artillery Museum at Sill is also impressive.
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[GatewayPundit] In a shocking turn of events, the Rushingbrook Children’s Choir was interrupted and stopped while singing the National Anthem in Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol.
The children, part of the esteemed Rushingbrook Children’s Choir, had traveled to Washington, D.C. last Friday, May 26th, for a scheduled Capitol tour and had received prior approval to sing a short set of patriotic songs inside the historic Statuary Hall.
However, as their angelic voices filled the grand hall while they sang The Star-Spangled Banner with pride, one of the guides intervened, as he was told by the Capitol police that the children stop singing immediately. The abrupt interruption stunned the young performers, the choir director, and the assembled audience.
The incident is now under investigation. Efforts are underway to gather further information surrounding the interruption and address the incident properly.
“We’re working on gathering info for now. We’d gotten permission from some SC congressmen and had also gotten it cleared by the Speaker of the House’s office. Once we have more info, we’ll know better how to proceed,” said Debbie Baughman Davis when asked who to address about this appalling interruption by Capitol police.
This is vile. There are school musical groups performing in public spaces every day around Washington, DC. The performances are approved and scheduled a year or more in advance, as far as I am aware, giving the groups time to raise money for travel expenses and to get on the calendar for legislator meet’n’greets, not to mention visiting some of the usual educational tourism spots. I went with my high school orchestra — we played Bach in the National Cathedral, where I discovered that the real purpose of the pauses between movements is to allow the building echos to cease accompanying the performance, and in the little church in Olde Williamsburg. It was the second time I stayed in a hotel, even if it was just a Howard Johnson’s, and the whole thing was a really big deal to me. As I recall, we sold chocolate bars door to door to raise money, in addition to whatever our parents paid.
The moment a children's choir singing at the #uscapitol was told to stop singing the U.S. National Anthem during the second verse. They had been given permission to sing prior to a higher up deciding our nation's anthem in our nation's capitol was offensive. No, seriously, when… pic.twitter.com/ygHnB4gjQ5
Update at 8:15 a.m ET: The Daily Signal finds out what happened next. The Capitol Police claim they did not stop the choir mid-performance, that the choir director lied about having permissions, and also claim that musical performances are not permitted in that space. Also, the South Carolina congressional delegation has offered to cover the group’s expenses so they can return to sing in the Capitol whenever they please.
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Great message to the kids here (great being used sarcastically) - your government hates you. And why McCarthy didn't fire every member of the Capitol Police when he assumed control only enforces his Rino / Uniparty reputation.
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If you watch the video in the Daily Signal piece below, towards the middle of the Twitter video (1.22 min) you see the white uniformed USCP female officer turning to speak to two individual, one of whom, clearly at her direction (2:16) comes over to stop the performance. The video doesn't lie, the USCP stopped the singing of the national Anthem!
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Pelosi's paid for goose steppers exerting their brand of strong arm. First, attacking and provoking peaceful citizens on January 6 and now a children's choir.
[IsraelTimes] Legislation, which also includes spending cutbacks demanded by House Republicans, sent to US president to be signed into law, averting default.
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Fake deadline avoided by the skin of our teeth.
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#1 Fake deadline avoided by the skin of our teeth.
Posted by: Super Hose 2023-06-03 08:03
...Sadly, Brother, was there ever any doubt?
I'm beginning to dread the next five to ten years. Not that I know anything or have any direct evidence, but I just have a feeling that some Monday morning we're going to wake up to a middling bank failure somewhere, or a brokerage house being suspended...and then it all goes downhill so fast that we're not going to know what happened for months.
Mike
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It's a "not if, but when" situation. Reportedly there are trillions of dollars of commercial real estate (CRE) loans out there. I don't think it's going to be a fun time for the financial system for the next few years. One reason, some say, why Fink's BlackRock wanted to get into banking (JPM beat them to the punch on First Republic Bank), so they can eventually be declared "TBTF" by that harridan Yellen. BTW, BlackRock also runs the French pension system.
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Reportedly there are trillions of dollars of commercial real estate (CRE) loans out there.
DooDahMan - you can remove the 'reportedly' descriptor from your statement. The guy I work for / with on Fridays has been in property management for at least thirty years. He's certain that a lot of these loans (we figure at least 25% of them, bare minimum) will be defaulted on soon (1-2 year horizon), and the difference from 2008 are all the office vacancies caused by our governments' (on all levels) collective response to the Wuhan Flu virus, a not so nice compounding effect. No way in hell the Feds are going to bail everyone out.
A completely self-inflicted disaster's in the making.
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The real problem cones when the people holding the defaulted loans suddenly have instead collateral that's worth little or nothing, which is the way a lot of those buildings will go.
The land underneath won't even be worth much if the left's blue city mayhem project continues as it's going now.
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The real problem cones when the people holding the defaulted loans suddenly have instead collateral that's worth little or nothing, which is the way a lot of those buildings will go.
Good follow through point, mate. This is where the dominoes will start to fall and the re-appearance of those dreaded accounting phrases - asset impairment, non-performing assets and doubt as to the ability to continue as a going concern.
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[JustTheNews] Facing a potential contempt of Congress vote, FBI Director 
