[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Just because that vile man believed it, if he did, does not make it so. Assuming Mr. Wolff correctly transcribed what was or wasn’t said.
Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Damned, the Notorious, by Michael Wolff will lift the lid on billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's final months
The book, out October 19, claims Epstein thought there was 'a deal to be made' over his sex trafficking charges, including turning against Trump and Clinton
According to Wolff, who recounts his visits to Epstein's homes in NYC and Paris, the pedophile believed there were two scenarios behind his 2019 arrest
He thought though the Trump White House, through the DOJ, was trying to get Epstein 'to flip and reveal the sex secrets of Bill Clinton,' Wolff writes
The other scenario was that New York prosecutors, who were investigating Trump's business affairs, ordered his arrest to 'pressure him to flip on Trump'
Wolff recalls a visit to Epstein's NYC home in 2019 where he heard discussions with Steve Bannon and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak on how to restore his image
One suggestion was for Epstein to appear on 60 Minutes, CBS This Morning or to be interviewed by Rachel Maddow, but Bannon said it would be tough
[Townhall] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...... on Thursday addressed the "unacceptably high number" of unvaccinated people in America and said his mandate for the private sector will go into effect "soon."
While "daily cases are down 47 percent" nationally, and "hospitalizations are down 38 percent over the past six weeks," Biden said there are still 66 million unvaccinated Americans. This is down from 100 million in July.
Insisting that his vaccine mandates are working, Biden said the Department of Labor will "soon be issuing an emergency rule" for private sector companies with 100 or more employees.
So there still is no mandate, just the promise threat of one sometime in the nebulous future? And all those companies have been getting rid of much-needed staff in anticipation of something that might never happen? Oh, to be a lawyer looking at any of these class action suits!
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So we are at 80% vaccination rate now? And up to half the unvaccinated may be people who were infected and recovered? What is the threshold for herd immunity now? I haven't kept up with all the goalpost moves.
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Glenmore, the restrictions MIGHT be lifted when:
1. 100% vaccination rate - NO exceptions.
1a. 100% booster shots administered
2. Zero COVID related deaths
3. Zero COVID related hospitalizations (including people who are admitted with other conditions who happen to have COVID)
4. Zero COVID cases
Until then, the lock downs, mask mandates, social distancing and other things will continue (except for the elite, of course). Governors and health commissioners are having way too much fun playing dictator.
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Of course there is no mandate now - if there were then there would be something for people to file suit about.
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So there still is no mandate, just the promise threat of one sometime in the nebulous future?
Given the actions of various airlines and other large corporations, I'm starting to wonder if there wasn't some back-channel communication from the Biden Admin to the CEOS. Could be the CEOs are just piling on the woke nonsense, but it is curious they all seem to be reading from the same playbook as far as alleged 'mandates' are concerned.
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they all seem to be reading from the same playbook
Here I thought I was the conspiracy guy.
However it would be kinda fun to correlate CV deaths/disablements work profiles with the supply chain staffing issues AND the legal/illegal immigrant (Afgan, Haitian, Mexican, et. al.) replacement workforce.
Flatten the curve!! Done. All flat. Can we go out now?
Wait for the vaccine!! Got it -- done. Can we please open now?
Booster shots!! Mmmmmmkay... how many?
STOP ASKING, PEASANT. This is the new reality. Shut up and do as you're told.
[Philly Mag via InstaPundit] Since the 2020 presidential election, Democrats have demonized Republicans who raise concerns about election integrity. But a new report Wednesday said a staffer of one Philadelphia politician had been engaging in voter fraud as far back as 2015.
According to Philadelphia magazine, Marie Beren, 67, faces federal charges for participating in a voter fraud scheme from 2015-2019. The outlet said Beren faces four charges related to voter fraud, one of which is conspiracy.
Prosecutors said Beren and an unidentified "consultant" were involved in the voter fraud conspiracy. The complaint alleges the consultant "exercised influence and control in Philadelphia’s 39th Ward by distributing cash payments and supporting family, friends and allies for elective office in the 39th Ward, and installing Ward Leaders, Judges of Elections, and Democratic State Committee."
Prosecutors said that around 1984, this consultant "installed" Beren to the committee for the Democratic Party in the 39th Ward of Philadelphia. In 1988, the consultant helped Beren become the judge of elections for the second district in the 39th Ward.
According to Philadelphia, a judge of elections essentially serves as the head of a polling place for both the primary and general elections. Prosecutors said two other divisions also voted at the same polling place, making Beren a "de facto judge of elections" for all three.
After serving in that role for 27 years, Beren stepped down and became a poll watcher in 2015. At that point, prosecutors allege Beren hand-picked a replacement who would allow her to continue running the election process for the three divisions.
This setup allegedly remained the same from 2015-2019. Starting in 2015, the consultant began directing Beren to add fraudulent voters to certain candidates, some of whom were clients of the consultant.
On Election Day, the consultant would drive Beren to the polling place and tell her how to cast fraudulent votes. She then allegedly engaged in multiple illegal activities such as advising in-person voters to support a certain candidate, casting votes herself in other people’s names and encouraging voters to cast additional votes for family members who were not present.
At the end of the day, prosecutors said Beren and other unnamed workers would add names to the voting book of people who never came to the polling place. They allegedly did this to falsely match the number of fake votes cast.
While the alleged crimes occurred in the city of Philadelphia, the effects could potentially have been felt nationwide. Prosecutors said the fraud occurred "at every level of government, from municipal to state to federal," according to Philadelphia.
As of Wednesday, the outlet said prosecutors had not specified the number of fraudulent votes, nor whether any election results may have been altered by the scheme.
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It's just ward elections, not 'real' elections, like the Presidency. No worries.
Pima County, AZ had mail-in ballot return rates of OVER 100%!
40 precincts had mail-in ballot returns OVER 97% -- totally impossible
Of course this is where Biden "outperformed." When the rates are normal, Trump beats GOP rates by 3%, Biden trails Dem rates by 3% pic.twitter.com/fSbhzNwCFB
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Actually, much if it DID come out immediately -- but it was labeled "misinformation" and any Republican official who raised was vilified as rayciss.
See the example of the Detroit / Wayne County election official who was physically threatened, publicly, in a viral video, at length by her Democrat thug - colleague on the Election Board.
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The fun has just begun. Dishonorable discharges 350,000 estimated now 400,000 forced due to economic impact. Pilots grounded after vaccination because of concern of them experiencing blood clotting. So NY where is your emergency medical hospital staffing.
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We were talking the aluminum foil drawer; one of my favorite parts about being raised by someone who survived The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl, was wondering what would be in the butter tub. Could be leftovers. Could be veggies. Could be fat. It was never butter.
The worst was the tolerance for spoiled food. When I would visit, there was always a chance for a surprise, especially the dairy. Salad dressing lasts a lot longer than you think....but not forever. My favorite, coming inside on a hot day of goofing off. Big ol drink of that ice cold chocolate milk. Well, its not chunky, but give it a day. She takes a drink, says its fine, sets it down with that You're Not Wasting Food, Are You? look.
[IsraelTimes] Political strategist refuses to give panel documents and testimony about his interactions with former president Trump before the deadly siege of the Capitol.
A congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection could soon recommend criminal contempt charges against former White House aide Steve Bannon, as he defies a subpoena for documents and testimony about his interactions with former US president Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... before the violent mostly peaceful siege of the Capitol.
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...The Biden Misadministration doesn't seem to understand the concept of "Don't give someone else a power that you don't want used against you."
First, there was the Executive Privilege decision that will almost certainly rebound on future Democratic presidents, ex- and otherwise. Now, the Congressional subpoena contempt issue...
Go ahead, Nancy. Enforce it.
And when your party is turned out of power, it will be then that someone should quietly remind you that the subpoena against former AG Eric Holder has never been dismissed.
Mike
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[NEWTONDAILYNEWS] Jon Dunwell has been elected the new representative of Iowa House District 29, according to the unofficial results of the special election released Oct. 12 by the Jasper County Auditor’s Office. Upon a successful canvass, Dunwell, a Republican, will have flipped a seat long held by a Democratic representative.The Jasper County Auditor’s Office reported a total of 4,717 ballots cast, of which 2,820 voted for Dunwell (59.81 percent) while 1,890 voted for Democratic candidate Steve Mullan (40.08 percent); five write-ins were received and two ballots were turned in blank.
Jasper County has 21,409 voters, which means the Iowa House District 29 special election had a 22.03 percent voter turnout.
Dunwell was surrounded by friends and family in Newton when he learned he’d won, unofficially at least. It was "unbelievably exciting" to see the results, he told Newton News, and it is humbling to learn the voters of Iowa House District 29 have given him this opportunity to serve as a representative of the statehouse.
"Community engagement is very important to me. Being out and among people is very important to me. Giving everyone a seat at the table is very important to me," Dunwell said. "I have a conservative philosophy. My passion is for Jasper County and Iowa. The team that I work with is for the Republicans."
The party is not the ends, he added, but rather the means or the process by which Dunwell can live out his conservative principles. Jasper County Republican Party Chairperson Thad Nearmyer was cautiously optimistic leading up to Election Night, especially when Dunwell had campaigned for the seat before.
Wes Breckenridge held his seat against Dunwell in the 2020 election. But in September the Democratic politician and former police officer announced he would be stepping down as representative of Iowa House District 29 after accepting a job at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy.
Even after Dunwell’s loss to Breckenridge in the 2020 election, Nearmyer said he never really stopped campaigning. Dunwell regularly posted to his candidate page on Facebook, and when the news broke the seat would be up for grabs, he wasted no time in announcing his plans to run and began soliciting donations.
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They haven't yet counted the 15,000 ballots that will be found in the trunk of somebody's car...
[BIZPACREVIEW] To borrow from "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Beto O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... is a legend in his own mind.Robert Francis (Beto) O’Rourke is just one of many in the cult of politicians — along with 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... — who simply refuse to exit the game of politics with some dignity. Much like the failed Democratic presidential nominee in the presidential race of 2016, Beto has never considered himself a factor in losing the elections he was trying to win.
Instead, he wants to make sure that any future voters know that it’s their fault he hasn’t won anything of significance yet.
Having already lost to Sen. Ted Cruz; ...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet... (R-TX) in the U.S. Senate election of 2018, as well as his forgettable run for president in 2020, he’s trying to prove he can fail sideways by running for governor of Texas in a bid to unseat incumbent Governor Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... in the 2022 gubernatorial election.
The Twitter handle "BetoMedia" posted a tweet Tuesday showing the candidate responding to a group of hecklers during a speech. In his customary fashion of yacking while his hands do the talking, O’Rourke punted back:
"You know, what you’re showing us is that YOU’RE AFRAID OF ME and you’re afraid of the people here. What are you afraid of? What are you afraid of?"
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... claimed gas prices aren’t surging "in all parts" of the country. This, like everything else she says, is fake news."The American people are -of course- impacted by rising prices of gas, in some parts of the country, not all!" she said.
Fact check: Gas prices are up 41%.
Maybe SHE doesn’t feel the pain because of her high salary and her personal chauffeur, but every day Americans are struggling with the price increase.
[NYPOST] In the midst of the 2020 St. George Floyd ...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that... protests, New York’s City Council demanded in a pique of illiberalism that Mayor de Blasio remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall. Never one to shy away from a horrible idea, Hizzoner is now honoring this deeply anti-American request.
Thomas Jefferson. The author of the Declaration of Independence, the third president, and ironically, a founder of what is today the Democratic Party.
I suppose one can see why Blas would have disdain for Jefferson. After all he was a political figure with enormous accomplishments, while the mayor is best known for flushing two decades of progress in Gotham down the toilet in his two terrible terms.
De Blasio is acting like a guy in an action movie walking slowly away from a fire he set, adding statue toppling to his long resume of risible decisions as mayor.
Mayor de Blasio is pushing the Thomas Jefferson statue out from City Hall’s Council chambers.
But honestly, this has very little to do with Jefferson, or statues at all. This destruction of history symbolizes a progressive left that wishes to stamp out anyone it dislikes with Puritan zeal.
The idea that deeply flawed people, even by the standards of their own day, can do extraordinary and good things is as ancient as history and storytelling itself. The King David of the Bible commits terrible acts, adultery and murder among them, and yet still emerged as a heroic figure. History and its characters are complicated.
This is about far more than American history, it is about our basic humanity.
We celebrate Jefferson not because he owned slaves, but because he wrote the higher ideals in the Declaration to which this country has aspired.
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I think it's more like "he suckles from the fringe..."
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I'm thinking he'll want to replace Jefferson with a statue of a criminal / drug dealer / thug like Floyd. After all Floyd embodies all that the Democratic Party values these days.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The Homeland Security Department is circulating a draft proposal that would severely curtail its attempts to strip citizenship from people who were naturalized based on fraud.The Washington Times saw a draft of the memo, from Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the heads of the three immigration agencies. The memo says people might not apply for citizenship because they worry about losing it in the future.
"Naturalized citizens deserve finality and security in their rights as citizens," the memo says. "Department policies should not cause a chilling effect or barriers for lawful permanent residents seeking to naturalize."
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All the high-profile cryptocurrency thefts were in excess, dollar-wise, than the number of votes at issue in the 2020 election. Blockchain not only didn't prevent those thefts, but actually facilitated them by making a single point of vulnerability that the thieves exploited in each case.
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Blockchain & its spawn Bitcoin are the vehicle of choice for organized crime, drug dealers, terrorists, ped0s and North Korea. What could possibly go wrong? Think, Rick. THINK
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan......
/\ We were talking the aluminum foil drawer; one of my favorite parts about being raised by someone who survived The Great Depression....
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
[NEWTONDAILYNEWS] 
[BIZPACREVIEW] To borrow from "Dirty" Harry Callahan, 
...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title 
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The Homeland Security Department is circulating a draft proposal that would severely curtail its attempts to strip citizenship from people who were naturalized based on fraud.The Washington Times saw a draft of the memo, from Secretary 
