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Attempt to assassinate the son of the political spokesman of Muqtada al-Sadr
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Greta Thunberg Says We Will ‘Put World Leaders Against the Wall’
[BREITBART] Time’s "Scold of the Year," Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change...
, told a crowd in Italia that "we will make sure we put world leaders against the wall" if they do not do what she tells them to do.

On her way home, the 16-year-old Swedish eco-activist and chronic truant stopped to address a Fridays for Future gathering in Turin, Italia, at which she went the full-Fidel Castro.

"Unfortunately, we probably already know the outcome. World leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities but we have to make sure they cannot do that. We will make sure that we put them against the wall and they will have to do their job to protect our futures," she said, according to the Daily Mail.

"Against the wall" is fairly common jargon in revolutions, especially youthful revolutions, and the accepted translation means executions ‐ lots and lots of executions, specifically firing squads, where the old leaders are permanently removed by fresh-faced revolutionaries.
Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are Greta's parents making money off of this charade?
Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  G*d, I'm so tired of little shits thinking they're masters of the universe.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 1:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Parents are main reason for her beliefs. Antifa parents;
Posted by: Dale || 12/15/2019 6:13 Comments || Top||

#4  She did a Beto (grab all guns) O'Rourke and let the mask drop to reveal all too clear the program. Now the damage control time.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2019 7:06 Comments || Top||

#5  You and whose Army, ya fuckin' pipsqueak? Siddown and shaddup!
Posted by: Raj || 12/15/2019 7:28 Comments || Top||

#6  In lighter vein...

Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/15/2019 7:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Judging from the parents, her low-grade autism is understandable. What I want to know is whose lips are moving when she speaks? Mummy and Daddy couldn't organize this goat rope. Who's fronting the money and publicity? Wouldn't be surprised to see our favorite Ex-Nazi lurking behind the curtain.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/15/2019 7:54 Comments || Top||

#8  A pic Is worth a thousand words.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/15/2019 7:57 Comments || Top||

#9  LOL, Mercutio.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 8:20 Comments || Top||

#10  What I want to know is whose lips are moving when she speaks ?

Most interesting question, Mercutio. My first guess would be she and her family are just winging it from the beginning. But that momentum would have fizzled out by now.

The second possibility ? One may find on scrutiny that some professional psychiatrists, and insane academics backed by certain foundations introduced the concept of 'channeling trauma into tantrum' to a fragile mind. Seeing the activism potential in her OCD and encouraging her anger issues. She cannot have encountered the level of earth-killing pollution or climate antics in her corner of the globe. Someone made her watch videos, see pictures and insidiously suggested the imperative of 'saving the earth' to her for years. They made sure to be there with the camera when she threw her first tantrum at the 'climate emergency'. It probably won local attention, and on social media. And a pocket rocket for the liberal, disobedience generation, an icon of activism was born.

The end here is not to have another wide-eyed environmentalist tree-hugger. That is part of the means. The end is to sow the seeds of activism in the youngest subjects, recruit from very early on. Catch 'em young, so to speak.

'No to education, till our demands are met !'

There's much history behind this view.

In China, and before that the USSR, military psychologists identified easily suggestible subjects with borderline compulsive issues. The study of OCD had not been completed yet, but the commies treated it as a 'trait', useful in some occupations. They put them to jobs in propaganda and internal vigilance for the commies. The common factor was the obsessive, savant streak they brought to their tasks. You didn't have to oversee the subject, he/she did the job spectacularly well and with a fervor greater than faith. All you had to do was implant the absolute necessity in the young mind to convince crowds, or catch probable dissidents. The OCD you created would do the rest.

I know this because I studied the process. I wrote a paper on how to use it on weak-brained muslims to implode their revolutionary schools from within. Another of my greatest hits, naturally it was thrown in the bin.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/15/2019 8:37 Comments || Top||

#11  Talk about white privilege. She is the embodiment of it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/15/2019 8:47 Comments || Top||

#12  We? Means you and?????

This needs to be tracked down and the motivators eliminated.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/15/2019 12:08 Comments || Top||

#13  Her mannerisms and tone when she gives her "speeches" reminds me ALOT of Hitler when he spoke.
Posted by: chris || 12/15/2019 12:15 Comments || Top||

#14  #13 yes. Practice in front of a mirror.
Posted by: Dale || 12/15/2019 13:00 Comments || Top||

#15  Someone made her watch videos, see pictures and insidiously suggested the imperative of 'saving the earth' to her for years.

Her schoolteachers from the age of eight, Dron66046. She talks about it in her TEDtalk.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2019 14:59 Comments || Top||

#16  " and the accepted translation means executions "

I've explained yesterday that this is NOT the accepted translation here. Greta used a Swedish expression in English which just means: "Hold someone accountable".

Just like "putting someone in the hot seat" doesn't mean that you intend to burn someone.

Maybe we just shouldn't take everything seriously what she says. She's a teen for God sake.

Posted by: European Conservative || 12/15/2019 15:11 Comments || Top||

#17  I know this because I studied the process. I wrote a paper on how to use it on weak-brained muslims to implode their revolutionary schools from within. Another of my greatest hits, naturally it was thrown in the bin.

Very interesting. Care to list a few bullet points from the paper?
Posted by: Snusotle the Lesser4227 || 12/15/2019 15:15 Comments || Top||

#18  She's a teen for God sake.

All the monsters of history were teens at some time.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 15:18 Comments || Top||

#19  Parents are main reason for her beliefs. Antifa parents;

Dale, your site is aimed at conspiracy theorists and Jew haters. Please find something better.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2019 15:22 Comments || Top||

#20  Agree that our focus needs to be on the girl's cynical and greedy parents.
Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 15:23 Comments || Top||

#21  Greta Gwynplaine, disfigured by corrupt adults, with a permanent scowl instead of a smile.

Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 15:35 Comments || Top||

#22  La Fille Qui Se Renfrogne
Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 15:37 Comments || Top||

#23  All the monsters of history were teens at some time.


Hitler Jugend


As German casualties escalated with the combination of Operation Bagration and the Lvov-Sandomierz Operation in the east, and Operation Cobra in the west, members of the Hitlerjugend were recruited at ever younger ages. By 1945, the Volkssturm was commonly drafting 12-year-old Hitler Youth members into its ranks. During the Battle of Berlin, Axmann's Hitler Youth formed a major part of the last line of German defense, and were reportedly among the fiercest fighters. Although the city commander, General Helmuth Weidling, ordered Axmann to disband the Hitler Youth combat formations, in the confusion this order was never carried out. The remnants of the youth brigade took heavy casualties from the advancing Russian forces; only two survived. - wiki

Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2019 16:18 Comments || Top||

#24  I was a teen, too. With socialist ideas.
They didn't survive confrontation with reality.
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/15/2019 16:28 Comments || Top||

#25  She's a teen for God sake.

No, she isn't. OK, as an individual, she is a kid. But as the spokesdroid for a movemnt, she is a stalking horse for some people with bad intentions.

While this may be a quaint expression in Swedish, in terms of political movements it has a definite and different meaning altogether. In the US, re-education means teaching laid-off factory workers new skills. For the Chinese Red Guards, many in their teens, re-education meant something quite different.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/15/2019 16:35 Comments || Top||

#26  Of course you all had an impeccable command of a foreign language at 16.
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/15/2019 17:03 Comments || Top||

#27  Nuts!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2019 17:16 Comments || Top||

#28  Faire un oeuf / Fair enough, EC.

What would you say to her parents, if you could give them some friendly advice?
Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 17:18 Comments || Top||

#29  Of course you all had an impeccable command of a foreign language at 16.

Sorry if I was unclear. It's not about language skills. It is about using a child as a spokesperson to give your movement deniability. "We want to save the planet" - Listen to Greta. She speaks with the moral authority and innocence of a child. "We want to shut down the global economy and if you don't give in, we'll threaten violence" - Greta is just a child, you know she isn't serious. It's quite a clever ploy, really.

We saw basically the same move with late-night comedians during the BushHitler era, particularly with John Stewart. It came to be known as "Clown nose on/Clown nose off". I'm a serious political commentator/hey, I'm just a comedian.

Over the years, I've watched this rotten nonsense go from some bad science to Global Warming to Climate Change to Climate Emergency. At first it was a way to fish for grant money, then a political power grab. Now it's global hysteria. The fact that the craziness is based on some corrupt data and bad computer models has been lost in the noise and shouting. I'm getting tired of it.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/15/2019 17:40 Comments || Top||

#30  "Nuts." Awesome. And what everyone else said. But I clicked "Comment" because I thought EC deserved to hear that at least one American immediately knew that the pearl-clutching headlines about the "wall" quote had to be bullshit. And that's without enough Swedish to order meatballs at Ikea.
Posted by: Large Munster1307 || 12/15/2019 17:58 Comments || Top||

#31  SteveS

It is about using a child as a spokesperson to give your movement deniability.

That's what I have been saying all the time. Don't attack the kid, attack the (adult) abusers.

All I can say is this: If someone had given me the opportunity to voice my opinions worldwide when I was 16, with a speech at the UN and all that, hell I would have been delighted.

A few years later I'd have been quite embarrassed by what I would probably have said.

Greta certainly believes what she says. That makes her "authentic". Her "fanatism", or may I rather say her obsession with one single issue is certainly conditioned by her Asperger syndrome. This is what made her sit for a year in front of the Swedish Parliament, and this is what made her go on that absurd Atlantic crossing by boat (never mind that other people had to FLY to the U.S. because of her).

She will soon fade away.
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/15/2019 18:54 Comments || Top||

#32  @Lex
What would you say to her parents, if you could give them some friendly advice?


I'm afraid the advice wouldn't be very friendly. From what I have learned about Greta's youth her parents failed miserably. And I guess now there is lots of money to be made with a child who actually needs professional help, not a forum at the United Nations.
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/15/2019 18:58 Comments || Top||

#33  She will soon fade away.
Just like David Miles Hogg on gun-control they'll drag her out when they need the young voice of moral authority on her issue.

I suspect that before long we'll see a young teen whose life was saved by abortion somehow, and one saved from drowning by hard working illegal aliens as they fill out the membership of the lefty legion of doom.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/15/2019 20:55 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
VA Dems Threaten to Call out the NG over Gun Control
via Bongino Report
[WashingtonExaminer] Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say local police who do not enforce gun control measures likely to pass in Virginia should face prosecution and even threats of the National Guard.
Didn't take long for the mask to come off
After November's Virginia Legislature elections that led to Democrats taking control of both chambers, the gun control legislation proposed by some Democrats moved forward, including universal background checks, an "assault weapons" ban, and a red flag law.

Legal firearm owners in the state, however, joined with their sheriffs to form Second Amendment sanctuary counties, which declare the authorities in these municipalities uphold the Second Amendment in the face of any gun control measure passed by Richmond.

Over 75 counties in Virginia have so far adopted such Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions in the commonwealth, the latest being Spotsylvania County. The board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a resolution declaring that county police will not enforce state-level gun laws that violate Second Amendment rights.

Virginia Democratic officials, however, already say local law enforcement supporting these resolutions will face consequences if they do not carry out any law the state Legislature passes.

"I would hope they either resign in good conscience, because they cannot uphold the law which they are sworn to uphold, or they're prosecuted for failure to fulfill their oath," Democratic Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly told the Washington Examiner of local county police who may refuse to enforce future gun control measures. "The law is the law. If that becomes the law, you don't have a choice, not if you're a sworn officer of the law."
Unless of course you're ignoring Federal immigration laws
Posted by: Crineng Gleager2796 || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Sanctuary Cities."
Calling out the NG to defy the Constitution.

Since when did John Calhoun's theory of nullification gain so much credibility with our woke brethren?
Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope the Democratic leadership in Virginia hurries up with its anti-second amendment plans. It will turn Virginia red in time for the 2020 election.
Posted by: 4` || 12/15/2019 2:18 Comments || Top||

#3  The last time Virginia thought it could nullify the federal Constitution didn't end well. Oh, and that was a 'popular' action with the legislature and governor as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2019 7:01 Comments || Top||

#4  ...Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

(inhales)

...HahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahNO.

The legislators who are threatening this have proved once and for all that they've never read a single damned law, or for that matter, the Constitution.

1)The Guard can be used to keep the peace (get things settled down after a riot or natural disaster, for instance), NOT to enforce the law - see also the Posse Comitatus Act. The VA Guard leadership would be on solid, unshakable legal ground to refuse any order from Richmond to go out and confiscate weapons. But let's say, for the sake of argument, that someone in the VANG completely blew an integrity gasket and said, go do it. Well, then....

2) Good luck getting all 7500 people in the VANG to go along with it. The tin-plated gods in Richmond forget that Virgina is a lot more than a couple of counties in the north. That state is a LOT more red than they think, and once you get out of NoVa and the coast, it's a different world...and that's the world most of the VANG comes from.
3) It's entirely likely that for all its combat ferocity - and the VANG is damned good, as befits the heirs of Lee's legions - they will go all Gomer Pyle when it comes to finding 'illegal' weapons. But
4) is the big one - if somehow, all the other safeguards fail, with one stroke of a pen DJT can Federalize the VANG...which immediately takes them away from Northam's control. Game, set and match, because at that point anybody in the VANG chain of command who authorized this happy horsesh!t is now liable to the UCMJ and they can at the very least look forward to dismissal and disgrace, because they (and a couple of generations of US military forces) have been taught as a matter of law that 'following orders' is not an excuse for breaking the law.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/15/2019 7:01 Comments || Top||

#5  The Guard can be used to keep the peace (get things settled down after a riot or natural disaster, for instance), NOT to enforce the law - see also the Posse Comitatus Act.

Sorry Mike, it does not apply to the NG when in state service. It only effects federal personnel. When the guard is federalized, then it applies. However, even the feds can be used in instances of insurrection.

Since the Aholes have no history, when good o'1861 came around even the federal military fractured. I suspect of the guard if they force the issue.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2019 7:45 Comments || Top||

#6  P2K is correct. I was one of the senior operations officers for the Adjutant General of California during the LA riots. In state active duty our troops conducted a wide range of direct and indirect law enforcement missions authorized my the Military and Veterans Code of CA. As soo. As the President federalize the for e and brought in federal troops Posse Commitatus drastically limited our ops to suppport.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/15/2019 12:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hidden by impeachment: One of Trump's 'best weeks yet'
h/t Instapundit
[Washington Examiner] - While the media and his critics focused on the bitterly divided House impeachment hearings, President Trump this week collected the most agenda wins yet, policy victories, including some backed by Democrats, that bolster arguments he’s making for reelection, according to advisers and analysts.

...Added to the list of accomplishments this week:
    An agreement on a new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal.
    A new budget including more than $1.3 billion for a border wall and blocks a government shutdown.
    House approval of the U.S. Space Force, a brand-new branch of the military.
    Government family leave that will be a model for a proposal for the public.
    Tentative agreement on trade with China.
    Approval of Trump's 50th federal appeals judge.
    Confirmation of a new Food and Drug Administration chief.
    The signing of a pro-Israel anti-Semitism executive order.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 11:01 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I would not have added this to this list: "Government family leave that will be a model for a proposal for the public."
Posted by: Iblis || 12/15/2019 14:27 Comments || Top||


Democrat lawmaker opposed to impeachment will switch parties
[Dhaka Tribune] A Democratic US politician who opposed his party’s moves to impeach President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
told staff on Saturday he will become a Republican as soon as next week, the New York Times

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

reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the discussions.

New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew is one of just two Democrats who voted against setting up the impeachment inquiry in the US House of Representatives on October 31.

If he changes his political party, it would be a sign of the strain the impeachment process is putting on moderate Democrats.

Trump carried Van Drew’s district in the 2016 presidential election and Democrats in similar districts face a deluge of Republican advertising attacks over impeachment and voters who are divided on the subject.

Democrats in the House on Friday approved two charges against Trump over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
Trump is expected to become the third US president to be impeached when the full Democratic-led House votes on the charges, likely next week, setting up a trial in the Republican-controlled Senate. Trump’s fellow Republicans have shown no signs of wanting to remove Trump from office.


Related: Breitbart - Democrat Rep. Collin Peterson Confirms He’ll Vote Against Impeaching Trump
Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow.

Can't wait for next November. Landslide?
Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Complaints of sexual harassment 20 years ago in 5..4..3
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 1:35 Comments || Top||

#3  In NJ, no less.
Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 1:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Odd factoid: I live in the district of the MN rep (Peterson) who will vote against impeachment and was born in the district of this guy. I'm not saying I'm the center of the Universe, but.....
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/15/2019 8:00 Comments || Top||


Judge orders 234,000 purged from Wisconsin voter rolls
[MSN] An Wisconsin judge on Friday ordered the state to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Wisconsin's voter rolls because they may have moved.

The case is being closely watched because of the state's critical role in next year's presidential race. Ozaukee County Judge Paul Malloy also denied the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin's petition to intervene.

Lawyers for the League and for the Wisconsin Elections Commission indicated they will appeal and asked Malloy to stay his ruling pending those appeals, but he declined.

At issue is a letter the state Elections Commission sent in October to about 234,000 voters who it believes may have moved. The letter asked the voters to update their voter registrations if they had moved or alert election officials if they were still at their same address.

The commission planned to remove the letter's recipients from the voter rolls in 2021 if it hadn't heard from them. But Malloy's decision would kick them off the rolls much sooner, and well before the 2020 presidential election.
Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Removing the duplicate blues...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/15/2019 18:43 Comments || Top||


Trump tangles with ‘Cryin’ Chuck’ Schumer over China trade deal
[NYPOST] President Trump slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 44.02454 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
‐ needling him as "Cryin’ Chuck" ‐ over criticism of his new trade deal with China.

"Chuck Schumer sat for years during the Obama Administration and watched as China ripped off the United States," Trump tweeted Saturday. "Now, without even seeing it, he snipes at our GREAT new deal with China. Too bad Cryin’ Chuck!"

The partial trade agreement, announced Friday, canceled a new set of tariffs set to take effect this weekend, and scaled back tariffs that remain in place. In exchange, China agreed to buy more US farm products and remove some of its retaliatory tariffs on American goods.

Schumer dismissed the plan as a "temporary and unreliable promise" in a Friday statement.

"We’ve heard this song & dance from China before," he tweeted.

Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Kentucky: outgoing governor pardons killer whose brother hosted fundraiser
[THEGUARDIAN] Days after leaving office, the former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin is facing widespread backlash and calls for an investigation following a number of controversial pardons of violent offenders on his way out the door.

Pardons are traditional at the end of a governor’s term ‐ and most of the Republican’s more than 400 pardons were for drug offenses. But a number of the pardons were for particularly violent crimes,
  • like a woman who gave birth in a flea market porta-potty and dumped her newborn into the toilet’s septic tank;

  • a man who hired a hitman to murder his business partner in front of his family;

  • a man convicted of beheading a woman and stuffing her body in a 55-gallon drum;

  • a man convicted last year of raping a nine-year-old child;

  • and a man convicted in a home invasion homicide whose brother hosted a fundraiser for the governor last year.

In that last case, Patrick Baker was pardoned just two years into his 19-year sentence for an incident in which he and several others impersonated law enforcement officers to gain entry to a home before shooting and killing a man inside. Two others imprisoned for the crime were not pardoned, despite prosecutors saying that Baker was the one who pulled the trigger.

In announcing the pardon, Bevin questioned the evidence presented in the case and the jury’s decision to convict Baker.

"The evidence supporting his conviction is sketchy at best," wrote Bevin in the pardon. "I am not convinced that justice has been served on the death of Donald Mills, nor am I convinced that the evidence has proven the involvement of Patrick Baker as murderer."

Bevin’s conclusion is starkly at odds with the judge who sentenced Baker, David Williams, who according to the Louisville Courier-Journal said: "I’ve never seen a more compelling or complete case ... the evidence was just overwhelming."

Baker’s brother Eric hosted Bevin at a fundraiser for the then governor at his home last year, raising $21,500, according to the paper, which has sparked accusations that the pardon was a favor, not the righting of a wrongful conviction.

In a letter to the Republican attorney general-elect, Daniel Cameron, on Friday, the Democratic senate minority leader, Morgan McGarvey, and the state representative Chris Harris asked for a special prosecutor or bipartisan special prosecuting team to investigate Bevin’s pardons, particularly the Baker pardon.

Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As pointed out by Sarah Hoyt - it's harder for Republicans to be corrupt.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 1:53 Comments || Top||

#2  This is his revenge on Kentucky for not re-electing him?
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/15/2019 9:35 Comments || Top||


GOP Sen. Hawley: The FBI Interfered in the 2016 Election
[BREITBART] Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Thursday appeared on "Fox & Friends" and reacted to the Department of Justice’s inspector general report by Michael Horowitz.

Hawley argued the findings show the FBI interfered in the 2016 presidential election, adding Horowitz’s report is "really damning" for the FBI.

"What’s worse: is it worse to have a foreign government trying to interfere in our election or is it worse to have our own government? Because that’s what the FBI did," Hawley advised. "Essentially, the Democrat Party bought themselves an FBI investigation. The Democrats went out and paid for this fake dossier, they fed it to the FBI and the FBI used it to get surveillance of the Trump campaign during a presidential election. This has never happened before in American history."

"The Horowitz report, the IG report is really damning. It shows that the FBI bought this hook, line and sinker. There needs to be some big league reforms there," he added.

He continued, "The facts are this: the Democrat committee paid for a fake dossier, fed it to the FBI and the FBI used it to interfere in an ongoing presidential campaign. It’s unbelievable. It can never happen again, we have to make sure of that."

Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If the opportunity arose, would the Senator vote to defund the FBI and call for jail terms for the guilty parties?

His constituents should ask him these questions the next time he has a "town hall".
Posted by: charger || 12/15/2019 14:06 Comments || Top||

#2  See - "insurance"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/15/2019 16:19 Comments || Top||

#3  ^
Yep.

That's why tough guy rhetoric from trough feeders doesn't impress me.
Posted by: charger || 12/15/2019 18:03 Comments || Top||


More Than 2.5K Dead People Are Registered to Vote in Detroit
[BREITBART] More than 2,500 dead Americans remain on the voter rolls in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
, Michigan, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit in federal court this week against the city of Detroit for allegedly failing to maintain their voter rolls, including keeping more than 2,500 dead Americans aged 85 and older on the rolls.

After obtaining voter data from the state of Michigan earlier this year, PILF researchers said they discovered that a number of registered voters had either "impossibly old" or "disqualifying young" date of births. In one case, for example, PILF researchers said they found that a registered voter stated they had been born in the year 1823.

In addition to dead voters remaining on the voter rolls, PILF alleges that Detroit’s voter registration rate as of 2016 for the citizen voting-age population stands at 106 percent ‐ indicating more voters on the rolls than those who even live in the city.
Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What we know about.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  ...I'm sorry, but this is unpossible as I have been assured by All The Best People(TM) that this doesn't happen.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/15/2019 7:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Detroit, like a lot of places, does not clean up their voter registration rolls very often. People die, people move out, and they stay registered. The only problem is if those people vote, and we don't know how often that happens.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/15/2019 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Add some zeros.
Posted by: Iblis || 12/15/2019 12:51 Comments || Top||

#5  we don't know how often that happens.

No, though we do know that it does happen. There are also other ways to cheat — a person voting in two states, people voting as ordered (Mr. Wife’s father told him that as long as he lived in Lackawanna, NY he would vote, and would vote Democrat, or there would be repercussions for various relatives working for the city), people voting others’ ballots by mail or in person by a variety of methods, voting machines only accepting certain votes for whatever reason...

Cleaning up the voter rolls of dead, moved, multiply registered, and imaginary voters is the easiest way to start getting a handle on a problem that, given human nature, is only partly soluble.

Snopes, with all its problems, does its best to address a report from 2017 in the National Review that there are over 3.5 million more voter registrations than adult citizens in the 38 states that they looked at. That number compares to the 2.9 popular votes that Hillary Clinton had more than Donald Trump in 2016, 4.3 million of them from California. It would be interesting to know how many of those votes were not legitimate
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2019 14:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Or you could flush *all* the voter rolls and simply require everyone to re-register, in person, with picture proof of citizenship. And require re-registration every 4 years.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/15/2019 14:52 Comments || Top||


Nadler's Frightening Abuse of Power
[AMERICANTHINKER] When the Dear Leader of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler, said that this was too important a matter to trust to the voters in the next election, he and his ilk gave us a frightening preview of the Gulag into which they would put We the People, should they gain full control of the government.

They wrap themselves up in the Constitution but conveniently forget the first three words. They forget that the Constitution establishes three branches of government, not two. But they have no time for the courts to rule on disputed documents and privileged conversations. They call the President a dictator, yet can’t wait for the next election. That election would be tainted and corrupt, don’t ya know. Any election Trump might win would be "tainted" by definition. Look at all those Ukrainians and Russians who attend Trump rallies. And isn’t red the color of communism?

They quote the Founders profusely yet despise the Electoral College those they once called a collection of misogynistic slave-owning old white guys created to prevent just the kind of tyranny of the majority we see today. If a national popular vote is such a good thing, why don’t they select their presidential nominee that way, instead of choosing delegates state-by-state just as we choose presidential electors? They don’t want democracy. They want mob rule by their mob.

The old adage about grand juries needs to be updated in the age of Nadler, Schiff, and Pelosi for under their new rules it is now also possible to impeach a ham sandwich. All you need is an agenda-driven House majority that won’t accept the results of the last election and voila! -- or whatever the equivalent is in Ukrainian -- you can impeach a duly elected President of the United States because of personal animus against him and his policies. The Democrats constantly claim Republicans want to disenfranchise voters but they want to disenfranchise the entire country because the voters elected a Republican according to the rules in the Constitution. Voting rights, anyone?

Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More and more keeps rolling out before the American people of the level of corruptness of the corruptness and criminality that went on during the Obama administration.

More to come.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/15/2019 21:41 Comments || Top||


Adam Schiff to Colbert: How Will ‘Shameful’ Republicans Explain Defending Trump to Their Grandchildren
[BREITBART] Kinda hard to explain, kiddies.

Y'see, Joe Biden -- you remember him? Pervy old guy who liked grabbing ladies' boobies and such, plagiarized a Neil Kinnock speech? He ran for president, back in '19?

Well, he had a boy. In his thirties, maybe even in his forties, but still just a lad. And there was a Ukrainian gas company called Burisma, that bought politicians by the dozen; they paid good prices that were drops in the bucket to what they made through the contracts that came their way. Well, they couldn't outright purchase Joe. All they had to do was put him with a few barely nubile babes an he was happy enough.

You follow so far?

Good. Joe had a kid named Hunter. He was a ne'er do well. tossed from the Navy for coke, knocked up some stripper he met at a gents' club in DC.

Simple, huh? I mean, a seedier pair you can't imagine. Joe even bragged he'd had a prosecutor investigating Burisma canned, or no aid.

So Trump asked Ukraine's new president -- kinda president to president, y'know -- to look into the matter.

He was impeached.

If you think that's something, in the Teapot Dome Scandal, Secretary Fall went to prison for the bribe Albert B. Fall was acquitted of paying.
Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Schiffshow.

These people are so deranged, they don't even realize what laughingstocks they've become.
Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  "Grandfather, what's a Democrat?"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 2:08 Comments || Top||

#3  In a way it is good to see the leadership of the Democratic Party behave in the deranged manner it has assumed. And also see that the FBI and CIA as well as the IRS and all sorts of other government agencies have turned into enemies of the Constitution and fair play.
This has highly strengthened the Republican party and President Trump.

Posted by: 4` || 12/15/2019 2:10 Comments || Top||

#4  When the grandkids come of age saddled w/horrific repercussions of your current massive federal deficits, their hatrid of YOU when you are an old man who passed those deficits should be your concern, clown.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 12/15/2019 2:22 Comments || Top||

#5  When the grandkids come of age saddled w/horrific repercussions of your current massive federal deficits

No worries, Varmint Splat1454. When the grandchildren are running things, all they need do is repudiate all the promises made regarding Social Security and Medicare to the old folks, and suddenly the debts won’t be nearly as insurmountable as they currently are projected.

This is one of the reasons why I haven’t planned on being able to collect when the time comes, independent of being six months short of having worked enough time to collect as other than Mr, Wife’s widow.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/15/2019 2:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Grandfather, did you fight the Deep-state as well?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/15/2019 4:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Cool-bear on the scaffold: "You can't do this to me, I'm just an entertainer!"

Hangman: "Clown nose on or clown nose off?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/15/2019 7:32 Comments || Top||


What is the secret of Hillary Clinton's strangely plumped-up-cheeks?
Take a deep breath before checking out the photo at the link, dear Reader — it’s distressing, but I’m sure it’s just that she’s only partway through the procedures needed to prep for the campaign trail.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 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...
looked wonderfully youthful at an event on Broadway in New York last night - and aesthetic experts suggest it could be down to regular 'tweakments' and cosmetic procedures.

The radiant former First Lady, 72, showed off a wrinkle-free complexion and plumped-up cheeks as she joined her husband Bill behind the scenes of Ain't Too Proud: The Temptations Musical at The Imperial Theatre.

Sporting a vibrant pink tunic dress with black trousers and a statement gold necklace, 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...
-born Hillary smiled as she chatted and posed with the cast.

Her glowing skin was noticeably smoother and her cheeks more defined than earlier in the week, when she spoke at the Jewish Labor Committee's Annual Human Rights Awards Dinner in the city on Monday.

Aesthetic expert Dr Ross Perry, founder of www.cosmedics.co.uk, said Hillary has been 'genetically blessed' with good skin - but claimed it could also be a result of Botox, injectable dermal fillers and Blepharoplasty.
Posted by: Fred || 12/15/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stowing nuts for the winter?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/15/2019 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Accumulated venom?
Posted by: Large Munster1307 || 12/15/2019 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  internal sacs for storing air to allow her to submerge under the water for extended periods and resurface, Rasputin-like
Posted by: Lex || 12/15/2019 1:03 Comments || Top||

#4  "It's just baby Fat, dear."
"You mean, like, Chinese baby fat?"
"No, silly Billy, that's his name. Fat. If you could have seen the look in his eyes..."
"Kinda like the look in mine now, eh, sweet cheeks?"
Posted by: Large Munster1307 || 12/15/2019 1:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Baths in virgins' blood?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/15/2019 1:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Extremely risky procedure. If not done right, the plastic surgeon can come down with Arkancide.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 12/15/2019 1:33 Comments || Top||

#7  I seriously think now is the time for her to start wearing a burqa. That is something kids shouldn't have to see.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/15/2019 3:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Bride of Clintonstein
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/15/2019 4:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Storing nuts for winter
Posted by: Frank G || 12/15/2019 6:04 Comments || Top||

#10  The evil harpy has arisen. Hillary for president and VP Adam Shift what a combo. Big cheeks and bug eyes. Strange showings soon in all your media.
Posted by: Dale || 12/15/2019 6:07 Comments || Top||

#11  ...Hilary! has finally gone full Elizabeth Bathory.

You never go full Elizabeth Bathory.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/15/2019 7:06 Comments || Top||

#12  Good God, she's morphing into a chipmunk! An evil chipmunk.
Posted by: Dave D. || 12/15/2019 9:23 Comments || Top||

#13  Has to store the blood of her victims somewhere!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/15/2019 9:35 Comments || Top||

#14  No, her face has just been lifted so many times that those bumps have migrated from her chest...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/15/2019 10:36 Comments || Top||

#15  ^^ That explains the beard
Posted by: Frank G || 12/15/2019 10:48 Comments || Top||

#16  Why are her cheek bones below her nostrils?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/15/2019 12:27 Comments || Top||

#17  I've always believed that Hill or Moochelle would enter the race befor the first primary. This just enhances my surety.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/15/2019 12:30 Comments || Top||

#18  Fantasy, delusion, narcissism, and reality have fused into Space-Time Continuun Two!!!
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/15/2019 13:12 Comments || Top||

#19  Sandpaper for eyes! Now!
Posted by: 3dc || 12/15/2019 14:05 Comments || Top||

#20  She was always ugly...on so many different levels. Now she's even uglier.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/15/2019 15:08 Comments || Top||

#21  Interesting look at the link. zero wrinkles on cheeks but beneath the cheeks she's got normal wrinkles. She should have had the skin on her jawlines pulled back or something to reduce this as the effect is jarring.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/15/2019 19:45 Comments || Top||

#22  She needs a bra for her face
Posted by: Airandee || 12/15/2019 20:38 Comments || Top||

#23  Either way, new or old, she is still evil.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/15/2019 21:37 Comments || Top||

#24  Meh. Should have gone for the full cat woman look.
Posted by: Snusotle the Lesser4227 || 12/15/2019 21:41 Comments || Top||



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