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-Great Cultural Revolution
'Woke' retailers who asked Congress for help amid smash-and-grabs supported left-wing police reforms
Maybe people just stopped buying
Nobody expects natural consequences when they posture for effect... making the Copybook results all the more salutary.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/16/2021 08:31 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Biden Joint Chiefs Nom Embraces ‘Gender Advisers' for Troops
[Free Beacon] President Joe Biden's nominee for the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Senate "gender advisers" for combat troops are critical to the United States' success, a position some veterans say is nothing more than a left-wing initiative that distracts from the military's core duties.

The revelation came during a Dec. 8 exchange with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.), who asked how Adm. Christopher Grady intends to implement "women, peace, and security" legislation within the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"The role of a gender adviser is a way to attack a very significant issue, and if confirmed, I look forward to leveraging those advisers who can make me think better and smarter about the issues that you raise," Grady said. "So I look forward to, if confirmed, understanding that ecosystem and helping advance that cause going forward again."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  MFJA - more Poufs in the military boy scouts, o'boy we are making smores again this afternoon....
M-other
F-uking
J-ack
A-sses
Posted by: Elmeth Snugum3100 || 12/16/2021 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  And this is how great nations fall. When the soldiers are required to fulfill political objectives instead of winning wars.
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443 || 12/16/2021 3:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Zampolits for everyone!
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/16/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Win a war, losers.
Posted by: Chunky Sproing5555 || 12/16/2021 21:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
FlimFlam man forgets mask mandate in KY
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Let's go Brandon!': Biden is jeered as he surveys tornado damage in Kentucky after twisters ripped through four states killing at least 88 people and leaving thousands still without water or power: Returned to DC in the evening
  • President Biden flew Wednesday morning to one of the areas worst hit by tornadoes at the weekend

  • He was briefed by officials and emergency workers in, western Kentucky, in a state where 74 people died

  • 'I have not seen this much damage from a tornado,' he said after flying over the affected area

  • During a tour of Mayfield - epicenter of the damage - he said the government wouldn't leave until it was rebuilt

  • 'We got 99 billion of damage just this year just this year because of weather and climate change,' he said

  • More than 88 people were killed as more than 30 tornadoes hit four states
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/16/2021 10:05 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  after flying over the affected area

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/16/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||


Elizabeth Warren blasts 'Republican hijacking' of the Supreme Court and supports adding at least 4 more justices to the bench
[MSN] Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless
on Wednesday fiercely condemned the Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
's current 6-3 conservative majority and came out in support for expanding the number of justices on the bench."I believe it's time for Congress to yet again use its constitutional authority to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court," the Massachusetts Democrat she wrote in a Boston Globe op-ed. "I don't come to this conclusion lightly or because I disagree with a particular decision; I come to this conclusion because I believe the current court threatens the democratic foundations of our nation."

Warren said that adding more justices would help "rebalance" the court, which she claims in recent years has undermined its legitimacy and independence because of a slew of "radical right-wing" decisions, particularly concerning voting rights, labor unions, and corporate power.

"This radical court has reversed century-old campaign-finance restrictions, opening the floodgates for corporations to spend unlimited sums of money to buy our elections. It has reversed well-settled law that once required employers to permit union organizers to meet with workers," Warren wrote. "And it has gutted one of the most important civil rights laws of our time, the Voting Rights Act, not once but twice."



Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Next week, she will launch a pow-wow on the subject; 4 more needed on Supreme Court, no pale faces need apply... hi a wathta, hi a watha, hi, hi, hi, wo-wo-wo-wo...as she takes to song and dance.
Posted by: Elmeth Snugum3100 || 12/16/2021 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2 
...threatens the democratic foundations...

Whenever I read something like this from a leftist I know they are working to destroy the Republic. For similar reasons whenever I read the term "elite" I substitute my notion of "garbage elite"
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/16/2021 1:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember this maxim: unless it supports whatever the Democrats want today, it is illegitimate. Thus the Democrats are justified in any means of forcing society to their will. Because they're just better people, and thus qualified - nay, obligated - to rule us.

This is our future.
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443 || 12/16/2021 3:02 Comments || Top||

#4  She reminds me of the neighbor lady who would start yelling at people for no reason.

Elon Musk
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/16/2021 3:41 Comments || Top||

#5 

Looking at it from the real world prospective.

People (living US citizens) voted for a President that BELIEVED IN FOLLOWING THE US CONSTITUTION.
A President who then appointed Judges that did the same.

But now look at what Obama, and Clinton appointed. It is clear they wanted judges that ruled and create law to match their political/social needs, instead of following the US Constitution.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/16/2021 5:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Shes OK with democrats highjacking it though.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/16/2021 5:43 Comments || Top||

#7  A real deluded nutball. She's advocating the very thing she claims to want to get rid of. I believe she would burn the Constitution if she could.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/16/2021 5:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Which is the evidence that the court has become a end around to Article V amending process. Even though it has been amended 27 times, they know they don't have the means to force through their design of governance that is in fact in conflict with the existing text of the Constitution.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/16/2021 6:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Ref #8: Yes, a 'work-around' not unlike wat presidential executive orders have become. Warren's fraud does not end with her Native American claims.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/16/2021 7:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Musk had a great takedown on this mental midget.

So did Kruiser:
...the paste-eating commie got into with Elon Musk after he was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” Warren accused Musk of “freeloading,” which is too rich coming from a useless politician who’s living off of the taxpayers’ dime.

Elizabeth Warren contributes nothing to American society. Boilerplate gasbag hyperbole isn’t a contribution.

Elon Musk is going to put humans on Mars sometime in the next quarter-century.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/16/2021 8:16 Comments || Top||

#11  Passing the laws required to do this will take time, and the GOP will control both houses and the Executive by the time it comes about. Either she hasn't thought things through or she's just throwing red meat to donors.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/16/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#12  Musk faces a 15 billion dollar tax bill. Warren paid $5,000 on 12 million dollars.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/16/2021 10:51 Comments || Top||

#13  I don't think she thinks anything through before opening her mouth.
Posted by: Chris || 12/16/2021 10:51 Comments || Top||

#14  Not a fan of Musk but Warren is yet another kakocratic exemplar of the absurdity of our mendacious, moronic, grifting political class.

Remember, this blue-eyed blonde buffoon scammed her way into a small fortune by posing as Harvard Law's first minority woman professor.

If the conniving skank had even 2/3ds of Musk's intellectual horsepower, she'd be a trillionaire
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/16/2021 10:56 Comments || Top||


Adam Schiff Appears to Fake Evidence in Text Messages at January 6 Committee
[BREITBART] Rep. Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
(D-CA) appears to have doctored evidence that he cited in Monday evening’s hearing at the January 6 committee, just as Schiff infamously did during the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
in 2019.

The committee was discussing its motion to recommend that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over information over which Trump has exerted executive privilege. (The full House voted to hold Meadows in contempt on Tuesday and referred him to the Department of Justice for prosecution.)

The Federalist reports, however, that Schiff doctored text messages he presented to the committee, altering the text and creating the false impression in a visual presentation that he was quoting original text messages rather than fabrications.
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Isn't tampering with evidence against the law?

Until Adam "the Liar' Schiff faces some concenquences - like federal prison time with the General Population - he's just going to keep tampering and lying.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/16/2021 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  But my professor from college said, I should exercise what I learned in creative writing class, at every chance I get after graduation, to expand my professional horizons, the sky is the limit!

Posted by: Elmeth Snugum3100 || 12/16/2021 0:20 Comments || Top||

#3  The state press will cover this up by not reporting. We are sunk as a unified nation. Sunk with corruption. Might as well be Italy or Russia.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/16/2021 3:37 Comments || Top||

#4 
His history of creating Fake Evidence is well documented.

So if I were a judge and saw the name ADAM SCHIFF associated with any Evidence. I would deny its introduction. Then have him charged with perjury, tampering with evidence and Civil Rights abuses.



Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/16/2021 5:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Did he actually change what the texts said, or 'just' misrepresent them?
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/16/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#6  These sh!theads are as stupid as they are brazen.

Schifferbrains falsified by omission. In the Russia Hoax he appeared to suborn perjury by his "witnesses" and suppressed evidence to the contrary.

FB-eye's Clinesmith literally forged a portion of CIA memo to mean the exact opposite of what its author clearly meant, in order to turn Carter Page from a US asset into a Russian one.

Every single official involved in this ridiculous hoax either lied, lied under oath, issued misleading statements, or simply fabricated giant portions of this tale -- to Congress, to cable TV audiences, to the FISA Court.

This was a tsunami of fraud. All of it coordinated, concerted toward a single end: the destruction of OrangeMan, they're version of 1984's Emmanuel Goldstein.

Our body politic is ill. Gangrenous.


Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/16/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Glenmore he actually changed the texts and left out paragraphs
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/16/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||


#9  I thought it was a crime to lie to Congress. Shouldn't Schifferbrains go to jail?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/16/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Abu, should and will are mutually exclusive
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/16/2021 12:33 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ ... in the Woke USSA
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/16/2021 13:13 Comments || Top||


Biden nominates JFK's daughter Caroline Kennedy to be ambassador to Australia
[JPost] "Like, um, and yeah, umm, and I love sushi, I mean Koalas."
Appears she sobered up long enough to say yes.
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy to be US ambassador to Australia and Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan as ambassador to Belize, the White House said.

Kennedy, 64, is the daughter of John Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States who was assassinated in 1963. She previously served as US ambassador to Japan.

Kwan is the winner of two silver Olympic medals in figure skating. She has served as an adviser to the US Department of State on women's issues.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Is this nitwit crow still alive???
I guess she has escaped the Kennedy Curse this far, why not send her to Australia; Home of the Covid Gestapo, aka one of the blind 5 eyes nations, they will likely put her in one of their "until dead Covid Quarantine Camps" and release her when she channels ""Dead Uncle Ted""
Posted by: Elmeth Snugum3100 || 12/16/2021 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I am sure there is no connection that the JFK assassination file dump on Tuesday and JFK's daughter is politically rewarded / bought off the next day.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/16/2021 5:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Vacuous and untalented. They’ll love her in Canberra.
Posted by: Grunter || 12/16/2021 6:56 Comments || Top||

#4  I gotta say, I think I'd choose Belize.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/16/2021 8:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Vacuous and untalented. They’ll love her in Canberra.

And they might really get to love her, ask to keep her on as a permanent US Ambassador to Australia, inthat case they might say, "We Love Caroline, We Can'ta berra to be without her." 😁
Posted by: Hupomose Gloth4203 || 12/16/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||


Biden smirks when Post asks about pushing China for transparency after 800K COVID deaths
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry......
smirked and walked away Wednesday when The Post asked why he hasn’t done more to push China to be transparent on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Biden was stone-faced when asked about his own responsibility for the US crossing 800,000 pandemic deaths — before breaking into a broad grin when asked about China.

"On 800,000 coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
deaths, do you have a statement on your responsibility, and why haven’t you asked China to do more to be transparent on the [virus] origins?" The Post asked the president on the White House lawn.

Biden, departing to tour tornado damage in Kentucky, gave no answer as he smiled and waved off the question. It was the only query to which he did not verbally respond.

The president gave a similar reaction to The Post on Nov. 8, when he also listened to an inquiry about pushing China for answers before walking away.
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Later on, in Kentucky:
'Let's go Brandon!': Biden is jeered as he surveys tornado damage in Kentucky after twisters ripped through four states killing at least 88 people and leaving thousands still without water or power: Returned to DC in the evening
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/16/2021 2:18 Comments || Top||

#2 

Give this some thought.

In the USA we normally / typically see on average around 7,300 deaths a day.

The Scamdemic has been in the USA for about 702 days (1-14-20 --> now)

7300 normal daily deaths * 702 days = 5,124,600 total normal deaths were to be expected.

The Fed's "claim 823,390 related" C-19 deaths, over the last 702 days or about 1,173 a day average.

Population Estimates
The current population estimate of the United States of America is 333,823,623 as of Thursday, December 16, 2021.

The United States Jan. 1st 2020 population was estimated at 331,002,651
A GROWTH of 2,820,972.

So despite "claiming" 823,390 C-19/21 Deaths" and having 5,124,600 normally occurring deaths. The USA still increased in population with 2,820,972.

============================

IMPORTANT OBTW:
Despite 82% Miscarriage Rate among 1st and 2nd Trimester Pregnant Women after Vax, CDC Urges Pregnant to Get Vax.

Ref: A horrifying study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that when pregnant women are given COVID vaccines during their first or second trimesters, they suffer an 82% spontaneous abortion rate, killing 4 out of 5 unborn babies.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/16/2021 6:35 Comments || Top||

#3 
#2 Good post NN2N1. Hard to get this our there even on the 'burg.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/16/2021 7:33 Comments || Top||

#4  So the vaccine may not stop covid but it's a pretty effective abortion shot?
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/16/2021 10:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Also pretty good at giving young men heart problems such as myocarditis. They finally admitted that too after months of denial and fudging the data. F--kwads.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/16/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Not vaxed and don't intend to be. No fan of CDC. Heart, such as it is, is in the right place. However...

"Vax Miscarriage Waiting to Happen!"
Perhaps, but... that "lady" is fappin',
And as for her belly,
I'm happy to tell ye,
'Twas only the keg he's been tappin'.
[CLUNK... "baby" wobbles across floor emitting gouts of shiraz]
Posted by: Sninesing Big Foot3944 || 12/16/2021 21:06 Comments || Top||


'We're going to win 2022': Biden and Harris tell DNC Holiday party
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The president gave a roughly 10-minute speech to 400 DNC officials and donors

  • He touted the successful passage of his infrastructure bill and urged Democrats to keep fighting to pass voting rights legislation

  • Biden also called on the Senate to pass his $1.75 trillion Build Back Better bill

  • The event was held at the Hotel Washington outdoors, due to Omicron concerns

  • Hours later he released a statement on 'the tragic milestone of 800,000 American deaths due to COVID-19' and urged Americans to get vaccinated
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The old perv poof is off his meds again...
Posted by: Elmeth Snugum3100 || 12/16/2021 0:29 Comments || Top||


#3  #2 - so now we have Biden quoting Stalin?
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/16/2021 2:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Hours later he released a statement on 'the tragic milestone of 800,000 American deaths due to COVID-19' and urged Americans to get vaccinated

Most of which now have occurred on his watch.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/16/2021 6:37 Comments || Top||

#5  If his handlers are that confident, the fix is in.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/16/2021 9:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Never forget, 6,968 dead in one day on Joe's watch. Can you imagine if the Orange Man was in office then?

OK, so it was less than four weeks after Joe was crowned.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/16/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#7  #3 #2 - so now we have Biden quoting Stalin?

He's the American Brezhnev.

Leonid Magoo
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/16/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||


Andrew Cuomo Ordered To Repay $5.1M Book Advance, And Serious Ancillary Effects Are Identified By Yours Truly
Via Lawrence Person's excellent BattleSwarm Blog; highly recommended:
[National Review] - Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo has been ordered by the state’s ethics board to forfeit $5.1 million in profits next month from the memoir he published over the pandemic.

In a near unanimous decision, a twelve to one vote, the New York Joint Commission on Public Ethics passed a resolution demanding that Cuomo return his earnings from the book, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic." This comes a month after the panel rescinded its prior approval giving the now disgraced governor permission to keep the book side hustle while he was still serving as governor of New York, confronting multiple scandals simultaneously.
Here's this CPA's analysis of the above, left as a comment on BattleSwarm Blog:
Even better — he’s got a serious tax problem or two now, in addition to an inability to pay all of it back. It’s a reasonable assumption that he received this $5.1M in the form of an advance in 2020 and presumably paid taxes on all of it at the highest Federal marginal rate of 37% (approximately $1.8M), in addition to whatever the highest NY state tax rate is. For lack of a better way to describe it, this income is now effectively disgorged in another tax year. My knowledge of the Internal Revenue Code, while not absolute, does not indicate an easy avenue for him to recoup this $1.8M from the Feds or NY state, for that matter. I don’t see a way for him to amend his 2020 Federal tax return since the ’loss’ / disgorgement occurred in another tax year, and how’s he gonna cough up the full $5.1M advance when over 40% is gone through taxes? Do you think he’s got $2M sitting around to cover the difference?

In my professional opinion, he’s fucked.
Lawrence Person makes an excellent point, mentioning our old pal Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano:
How unpopular is Cuomo? Even former Gambino Family underboss Sammy "The Bull" Gravano said Cuomo’s granny-killing was beyond the pale. "I don’t give a f— who tells me to do that, whether it’s [former President] Trump, the president, the vice president, you, him, I would never do it...And I’m a badass. I’d never do it."

How bad do you have to suck to have a guy involved in 19 murders to think you’re scum?
When you're involved in untold thousands, that's how.

Since National Review sucks big hairy donkey ballz, in addition to skimping on salient information, this New York Post article gives some better details, making me slightly reconsider some of the above
:
Whether the state can claw back the profits from Cuomo’s self congratulatory pandemic memoir remains to be seen, with some ethics experts questioning the legality, along with the ex-governor. James issued a statement saying, ""We are currently reviewing JCOPE’s vote and determining how best to move forward."

Cuomo’s office said earlier that he netted about $1.5 million after taxes and expenses
he's claiming serious six-figure 'expenses' writing a fucking book - ed.
for the book last year, with one-third donated to the United Way of New York State and the rest plowed into an irrevocable trust for his three grown daughters.

"JCOPE has exactly zero authority to issue an order such as this," said David Grandeau, a former executive director of the state’s ethics agency. "All it [the law] says is JCOPE has the right to issue opinions and opinions are like a—holes, and in JCOPE’s case, there’s 13 of them. There’s just no authority to issue it. "
Let the assholes fight it out, and bring me some popcorn so I can enjoy the show!
Posted by: Raj || 12/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In the portion of the political ionosphere that Sonny Coomo inhabits, money is "an idea' much as Chris Wray says Teefa is "an idea, not an organization." All Sonny has to do is have his lawyers set up a shell company that "agrees to pay." What said shell company will do is make some political contributions and after that you will never hear about this again.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/16/2021 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  The ill-gotten gains are nothing -- absolutely zip -- when set next to this incompetent liar's monstrous order to send the elderly back into the nursing homes where they contracted COVID and actually died of, not merely with, the virus.

Cuomo is guilty of manslaughtering thousands of New Yorkers. His negligence killed them.

And we talk about a book deal. This counter is sick, decadent, beyond repair.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/16/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Cuomo's ill-gotten gains - Easy come - easy go: but the interest on $5.1 Million (?) his to keep, no?
Posted by: Hupomose Gloth4203 || 12/16/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Good catch.

If he put the $5mil into any well-diversified portfolio of stocks in late 2020 he'd have pocketed at least $1.5 million in gains by now.

These assholes are laughing at us. Smollett, Steele, Schiff, Comey, Brennan, Rice, the Bidens, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Cuomos, on and on and on...

Our kakocrats brazenly lie, scam, steal and, in Sonny's case, kill their way to fat fortunes.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/16/2021 11:12 Comments || Top||

#5  ....are laughing at us. Smollett, Steele, Schiff, Comey, Brennan, Rice, the Bidens, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Cuomos, on and on and on...

No doubt in my mind. Deep State traitors to the core. The evidence continues to support their guilt and betrayal.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/16/2021 11:15 Comments || Top||

#6  In their minds they're valiant heroes rescuing the Republic from Deplorables.

Look at how they talk to each other: they've convinced themselves that we're "insurrectionists," Nazis.

In their fevered dreams they picture themselves as Stauffenbergs putting suitcase bombs under OrangeAdolf's conference table.

Would anyone criticize Claus Von Stauffenberg of such petty crimes as perjury, fabricating documents, messing with the Nazis' election results? Of course not. Anything goes when you're a heroic savior, fighting with the angels to send Satan back to hell.

And now these assholes are literally accusing 30 million of us of making preparations for Civil War II. To restore "white supremacy."

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/16/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Would anyone criticize Claus Von Stauffenberg of such petty crimes as perjury, fabricating documents, messing with the Nazis' election results? Of course not. Anything goes when you're a heroic savior, fighting with the angels to send Satan back to hell.

...Perhaps it might be salutary to remind the Resistance that although von Stauffenberg was more than willing to sacrifice himself to kill Hitler, it was less because Der Fuhrer was evil but more because Der Fuhrer was losing.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/16/2021 15:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Cuomo has probably already paid $1-2M in State and Fed taxes on this.

I presume since the Commission has no authority beyond just 'passing a resolution' that this is of essentially no practical consequence.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/16/2021 17:23 Comments || Top||



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