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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Project Veritas: Leaked ABC News Insider Recording Exposes #EpsteinCoverup
Youtube has disabled embedding for this video as a form of soft censorship. Don't let it work. Please spread this far and wide, everyone you know needs to see it.
Project Veritas’s last round of videos went after CNN. Is this round about ABC? Incidentally, this is a popular post: Skidmark linked to it in comments yesterday, and Lex also submitted the link, though without embedding(?) the video.

Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/06/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Popular perhaps because of all the recent Veritas media videos, this one completely captures how corrupt, stupid and incompetent are the nation's broadcast pro's.

Veritas as in Veritable Shitshow.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Popular, I think, because so many of Project Veritas’s projects drive changes in behaviour— shutting down ACORN, requiring voters to provide ID in New Hampshire or wherever, Lex.

Herb, if YouTube disabled embedding, how did you manage it for us?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2019 6:56 Comments || Top||


#4  Doubt if Ms. Robach has much of a future at ABC.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2019 12:02 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't think there is much interest in finding out what happened to Jeffrey Epstein. There will most likely be a report about the mishandling of high profile prisoners and poor jail procedures and mismanagement where the real story will go untold.

Those who Epstein had dirt on most likely breathed a sigh of relief when Epstein "cashed out." I wonder what the FBI found when they searched Epstein's Manhattan apartment and Little St. James Island. What do Ghislaine Maxwell and Jean-Luc Brunel and others know? What was on Weiner's computer. A good investigation would address these issues.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/06/2019 12:48 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Greta Thunberg Pleads for Help and a Carbon-Free Lift Across the Atlantic
[BREITBART] Swedish climate activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change...
is looking to the world for suggestions as to how she can re-cross the Atlantic after next month’s U.N. climate summit in Chile was unexpectedly scrapped.

The 16-year-old made it from Sweden to Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, by yacht, train and electric car before Chile’s government announced it was canning the summit because of political unrest in the South American nation.

The COP25 summit will now be held in Spain and she is pleading for public help to make the 6000-mile trip through carbon-free modes of transportation.

"As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help," Ms Thunberg tweeted from Los Angeles.

"It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way."

"Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November ... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful."

Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Start a-rosin’ Greta.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/06/2019 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Rowin’
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/06/2019 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Why not simply teleconference? Moving bits is cheaper than moving atoms. Ignoring for the moment that electricity was invented by a dead white man which makes it evil.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/06/2019 1:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Swimming.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 1:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Bring back the Mayflower!
Posted by: Raj || 11/06/2019 7:14 Comments || Top||

#6  ...yeah, just in time for hurricane season.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2019 8:17 Comments || Top||

#7  "It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way."

In more ways than one, little girl.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/06/2019 8:20 Comments || Top||

#8  But the largest polluters are across the Pacific.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/06/2019 8:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Moving bits is cheaper than moving atoms.

No doubt about that. All the same, I am amused by music streaming. Do you think many millennials or younger have any idea of the totally non green aspects of streaming the same songs over an over? Any idea of the streaming companies' data center energy usage? Of the infrastructure of the Internet's energy usage?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 8:38 Comments || Top||

#10  dumb lil cunt
Posted by: chris || 11/06/2019 9:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Tell me why should we listen to or pay attention to this disgruntled little misanthrope?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/06/2019 10:03 Comments || Top||

#12  M. Murcek, it's a well known fact among lefties that streaming is powered by unicorn farts so there is no downside.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/06/2019 10:07 Comments || Top||

#13  Now if we could generate green power using the homeless somehow the situation in San Francisco and Seattle and Los Angeles would start to make sense.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/06/2019 10:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Now if we could generate green power using the homeless somehow

It's called biomass...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 10:26 Comments || Top||

#15  As for Greta, put her on the poopdeck of a bark, let her blow lotsa hot air into those sails. She'll be in Iberia before she knows it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 10:28 Comments || Top||

#16  Those old Viking ships were carbon free. Too bad there isn't much of that old Viking spirit left in Sweden anymore.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2019 12:05 Comments || Top||

#17  Although, I suppose that when you cut down trees for lumber to build a wooden boat those trees can no longer absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen. Gosh, she might have to swim after all.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2019 12:08 Comments || Top||

#18  Phuque her and the carbon free ship she came in on. And what will happen when her visa expires? will she have a pint-sized hissy fit when escorted to the 737 for transport 'outta here?'
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/06/2019 12:52 Comments || Top||

#19  will she have a pint-sized hissy fit when escorted to the 737 for transport 'outta here?'

Might be fun to watch the federal marshals escort her onto the plane.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2019 13:23 Comments || Top||

#20  Her "problem" sums up the problem of the whole "movement". Clueless. How was she supposed to get home from Chile btw?

The pragmatic way would, of course be, a standby plane ticket.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/06/2019 14:15 Comments || Top||

#21  A lot of countries demand that you show them a return plane ticket before they allow you to enter their country.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2019 14:34 Comments || Top||

#22  737 max perhaps.

I have no beef with clean energy sources. I wouldn't want to live next to a coal mine. I remember coal furnaces. But at the same time the energy sources being used need to make sense. In their use, their planning and most importantly in the prosed method of energy storage for off peak or night hours for solar plants. It's my hope that someday we have practical fusion plants. Of course the green wines will want to stop them 'cause they're nuclear.
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 11/06/2019 14:48 Comments || Top||

#23  She could take Obama's intercontinental railroad.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/06/2019 15:27 Comments || Top||

#24  she could grab a berth on a tramp steamer

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-cross-the-ocean-on-a-freighter-ship/

but i guess that also isn't 'green' enough
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/06/2019 17:08 Comments || Top||

#25  She could get into a barrel, get dropped in the ocean, and let the current take her.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/06/2019 17:12 Comments || Top||

#26  re teleconference

The Pettish Fetish, or A Swedish-Mohammedan Edda

To telecommute might be better,
But the cult of Miss Thunberg won't let her.
To preen on a screen
Might be green, but I ween
That the mountain would just come to Greta.

Posted by: Zebulon Darling of the Hatfields3150 || 11/06/2019 19:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Juli Briskman, Finger Warrior Who Beat Republican Incumbent
Washington (AFP) ‐ A cyclist who was fired after flipping the bird - making a rude single-fingered gesture ‐ to US President Donald Trump's motorcade has been elected to local office in Virginia.
Juli Briskman, whose one-handed salute was captured in an AFP photograph that went viral, beat the Republican incumbent to a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in state elections that saw Trump's Republican party suffer a series of stinging defeats.

The single mother of two teens lost her job as a marketing analyst for a United States government and military subcontractor after the snapshot of her gesture spread across media and the internet in 2017, bringing her insults and threats.

But getting fired also opened "a lot of doors"
no doubt
, the 52-year-old told AFP during her campaign, including accepting an invitation to run for local office on the Democratic ticket.

That decision paid off on Tuesday night, as Briskman celebrated her victory in a tweet that linked to a copy of the image.

"Looking forward to representing my friends & neighbors in #Algonkian District who backed me up today! So proud that we were able to #FlipLoudoun," she wrote.

With 52 percent of the vote after 99 percent of precincts had reported, the result saw Republican Suzanne Volpe beaten into second place.

Rest at Breitbart
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/06/2019 12:16 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mencken's saw remains in effect: The voters deserve to get what they vote for. Good and hard...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 13:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Loudoun County Board of Supervisors...
That's way below the level I bother to research or even vote for unless they've been spectacularly bad.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/06/2019 14:23 Comments || Top||

#3  unless they've been spectacularly bad

When was the last time they weren't?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 14:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Looks like John Kerry, except actually able to ride a bike.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/06/2019 17:21 Comments || Top||


Impeachment starts next week
Posted by: 3dc || 11/06/2019 11:54 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Schiff says the transcript of Ambassador Taylor's deposition will be released today

The necessary changes have been introduced?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 12:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Kicking off the civil war a little early?
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/06/2019 12:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Hillary needs it before her next stroke.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/06/2019 12:45 Comments || Top||

#4  This is a blatant attempt by the left to cover up their criminal actions and to bring about a coup d'etat.

When you ignore the rules, there are no rules for anyone. Proceed at one's peril.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/06/2019 12:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Not the actual impeachment, then, just formal hearings preparatory to preparing an impeachment bill for the House to vote on so they have something to take to the Senate.

So exciting.

But it will soothe the slavering far-left base... while persuading ever more Independents that they’re completely nuts. Well done, guys!
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2019 13:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Release the IG report NOW!
Posted by: 3dc || 11/06/2019 13:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Pre-pre impeachment. They have to stretch it out until the dem primaries are over.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 14:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Damn, and I was hoping to get into next month's budget before I had to buy more ammo.
Posted by: Crereth Craling2878 || 11/06/2019 15:39 Comments || Top||

#9  They need an impeachment process to protect their candidates from investigation.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/06/2019 16:14 Comments || Top||


Paul Ryan Rand Paul threatens to name whistleblower.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 11/06/2019 06:02 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ummm...Rand Paul?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/06/2019 6:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Paul Ryan knew who the whistleblower was going to be back in 2016.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 6:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Everyone in DC knows who he is.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 11/06/2019 6:51 Comments || Top||

#4  I can top that - 'RuPaul Threatens To Name Whistleblower'
Posted by: Raj || 11/06/2019 7:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Washington Examiner - Rush Limbaugh: Alleged whistleblower 'looks like the pajama boy in the Obama ad'

Limbaugh, 68, reading excerpts from the RealClearInvestigation report, said: "Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House," Limbaugh said. "Why the hell was he still there? What do you mean, 'held over'? This guy — I’ve probably seen this guy there. I’ve been to the Oval Office two or three times since Trump’s been president. I’ve been in the West Wing. I’ve probably seen this guy slithering around. It never even registered. Next time I go, I’m gonna keep a sharp eye for people I think might be John Brennan holdover plants, ’cause they’re obviously slithering all over the place."

The radio host argued that Ciaramella was allied with Joe Biden, who was vice president when Ciaramella worked at the White House, and John Brennan, CIA director at the time of Ciaramella being detailed there and subsequently a fierce critic of Trump.

Limbaugh said of Ciaramella: "This guy was involved from the get-go, starting in 2016, doing John Brennan’s bidding from the West Wing on furthering the whole Trump-Russia collusion operation of which there wasn’t one! As per the esteemed Robert J. Mueller XIV or whatever Robert J. Mueller he is."


Ciaramella was evidently appointed just prior to Soetoro leaving office.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 7:47 Comments || Top||

#6  ...another mole?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2019 8:16 Comments || Top||

#7  So obvious it's pathetic.

What made them think they could get away with such a clownish, brazen hack?

= The Shitshow, Part 172
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 9:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Too late, The Don, Jr already dropped the Eric C. name.
Posted by: Crereth Craling2878 || 11/06/2019 15:41 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/06/2019 20:50 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Hell hath no fury like Shitshow Clowns scorned.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 21:27 Comments || Top||


Democrats win control of Virginia statehouse
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ‐ The Latest on Virginia’s legislative elections (all times local):

10 p.m.

Virginia Democrats are taking full control of the statehouse for the first time in more than two decades.

Democrats won majorities in both the state House and Senate in Tuesday’s legislative election. This is the third election in a row that Virginia Democrats have made significant gains since President Donald Trump was elected.

The win will give Democrats control of the legislature and governorship for the first time in 26 years. Democrats have pledged to pass new gun restrictions and raise the minimum wage once in power.

Virginia is the only state with legislative elections this year where partisan control was up for grabs. Much of the contest centered on how voters feel about Trump and his possible impeachment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 05:28 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Blak Republican AG at that. And Beshear's father was a two term Kentucky governor, showing there is a sad, unhealthy strong donk love for dynastic politics.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  So, their new ballot stuffing technique works?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 6:56 Comments || Top||

#3  ..not always, but enough to keep the game going.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2019 8:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Frm the local Cincinnati/N. KY newspaper’s website:

A Kentucky governor’s election race recount? A look at what happens now
Democrat Andy Beshear turns 2 NKY counties blue
State legislature could decide Bevin-Beshear race, Senate leader says
Trump: Kentucky election results show McConnell 'will win BIG'


So we’ll see.

Kentucky elected a black Mitch McConnell protege as attorney general. Is he the one to whom you refer, M. Murcek?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2019 12:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, TW. He's the silver lining. Kentucky's house and senate are still held by Republicans. We will see how many of them are Romney Republicans in the next year or so.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 13:09 Comments || Top||


DOJ says executive branch witnesses MUST be allowed to bring lawyers
[Right Scoop] The DOJ has published a new memo explaining that Democratic House committees investigating Trump’s impeachment MUST allow White House attorney’s present or the testimonies will be legally invalid:

It’s sad that the DOJ would need to put something like this in a memo because it’s common sense that the White House would need to protect executive privilege. Schiff thinks he’s going to win the argument by calling this “obstruction of justice”, but anyone with common sense will see through this. I say that knowing that there are many people out there whose hatred of Trump overrides their common sense.

Regarding Bolton skipping his appearance, rumors that he’s going to show up later this week aren’t true:
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 05:18 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Impeachment is not a 'legal' process but a political one, and the power to set the rules for it is vested in the House, so it could be argued that there is no legal right to a lawyer - or that there is. It would probably have to go to the Supreme Court, where Roberts would have to decide whether his personal secrets were more important than impeachment processes...
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/06/2019 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Shitshow Part 173.

These clowns can't even follow their own rules. They're literally making this up as they go along.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 9:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Impeachment is not a 'legal' process but a political one

Maybe the process should be a legal process. As it is now, impeachment seems to violate several Constitutional rights of POTUS.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/06/2019 15:53 Comments || Top||


Democrats claim victory over Trump-backed Kentucky governor, seize Virginia legislature
(Reuters) - U.S. Democrats claimed an upset win in Kentucky on Tuesday over a Republican governor backed by President Donald Trump and seized control of the state legislature in Virginia, where anti-Trump sentiment in the suburbs remained a potent force.
Read: DC Bureaucrats and hangers-on
Update at 1:05 p.m. ET: Headline rewrite: Democrats get overexcited in Kentucky. Republican Gov. Bevin did not concede, which means it’s about to get interesting — Kentucky has procedures for very close races.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 03:57 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The American people have spoken. More democrats are actually needed. I'm not at all certain why I should waste my time following politics. It appears the republic is experiencing an irreversible ut moreretur (death wish).
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 4:00 Comments || Top||

#2  A Trump endorse AG won in Kentucky
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 11/06/2019 6:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Wow - one whole governorship and one state legislature - that tells me they just got their asses kicked, pal!
Posted by: Raj || 11/06/2019 6:57 Comments || Top||

#4  New news from the formerly-significant media: Trump is really gonna get it - this time for sure!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/06/2019 8:53 Comments || Top||

#5  If you read Drudge, it was a Republican disaster in KY. If you read Instapundit, the Trunks won just about everything in KY Except the Gov.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/06/2019 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  In VA, turnout was about 20% to 35% or so depending on the district (typical for an off year) so a surge of motivated leftists had a major impact

BTW, VA has a requirement to present an ID when voting.
Posted by: lord garth || 11/06/2019 11:55 Comments || Top||

#7  I had to present ID to vote in PeeAye. I have to present ID to vote in FL. At some point we will have to dilute other states' electoral college count by the % of illegals they give drivers licenses to. That will be fun...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 12:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Although I've moved from VA to NC, when I was in VA, I always tried to use my retired military ID. They were actually only set up to handle driver's licenses.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/06/2019 12:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Apparently Kentucky has never had a two-term Republican governor, and this election just maintained the pattern.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/06/2019 12:27 Comments || Top||

#10  In KY, the R got 48.8%, the D got 49.2% and a Libertarian got 2%.
Posted by: lord garth || 11/06/2019 12:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Democrats claim

That’s nice. There are procedures for that.

Matt Bevin won't concede after Andy Beshear wins by less than 1% in Kentucky governor's race

[WCPO] Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin says he won't concede defeat to Democratic challenger Andy Beshear in one of the closest political races in history with a margin of 5,150 votes - 0.36% of more than 1.4 million counted, according to the unofficial tally.

Bevin told supporters Tuesday night that the process needs to be followed in such a close race - an apparent reference to Kentucky's three options for trying to overturn the outcome. Bevin knows the process because his opponent challenged his 2015 Republican primary victory.

There is no mandatory recount in Kentucky, but a candidate can go to court and sue for it.


So depending on whether Governor Bevin chooses a recanvass of the voting machine to make sure the counts were reported accurately, a recount of the votes themselves, or an election contest, we’ll know within ten days what will be done, if not how long it will take.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2019 13:01 Comments || Top||

#12  The important thing is to not just let them have their way.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 13:03 Comments || Top||

#13  Blue as it gets Tucson voted down sanctuary city status. Not reported anywhere.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 13:29 Comments || Top||

#14  Lord Garth, now that is a major landslide
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 11/06/2019 14:54 Comments || Top||

#15  2020 is what matters. Nothing else comes close.

If you live in or near WI MI or PA, get busy.

Knock on doors, make calls. Help expand the database and when the time comes help GOTV. Leave nothing to chance.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 15:33 Comments || Top||

#16  I seem to remember parts of Tucson were "no go" due to Mexican gangs. Perhaps all politics IS local.
Posted by: Crereth Craling2878 || 11/06/2019 15:44 Comments || Top||

#17  Bevins nearly won and he still might. There were other wins in Kentucky (AG and others). I heard it said that Bevins picked up about 6-8 points because of Trump rally and endorsement.

A win in Mississippi. There have been other wins as well.

Virginia. I'd bet the areas around Washington decided the election. A place where swamp-draining is not popular as many work for the government.

The MSM tries to paint a picture of doom and gloom for the Pubs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/06/2019 15:49 Comments || Top||



Former CIA Director Leon Panetta - Sondland's Testimony ‘Clear Definition of Bribery'
[Breitbart] On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s "Right Now," former Obama administration Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland’s testimony offered "the clear definition of bribery."

CNN correspondent Manu Raju read excerpts from Sondland’s congressional testimony in which he said a meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was conditioned on an investigation into the company that Hunter Biden served on the board, Burisma Holdings.

Panetta said, "I think it’s important to keep focusing on the basics. And the basic charge here is that the president of the United States was asking a foreign leader and a foreign government to open up an investigation on a political opponent and on a political conspiracy and in exchange for that would provide not only a meeting at the White House but also military aid. That is the clear definition of bribery. And it’s a clear definition of what constitutes a violation of the president’s oath. So this is just additional evidence that when you look at the testimony, when you look at the facts here, it basically supports a charge against the president that he was deliberately misusing his office of the presidency."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 03:39 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Panetta said, "I think it’s important to keep focusing on the basics.

"The basics"... as Brennan, Soetoro, and Clinton have instructed you to do. Ok, I believe it is coming into focus just now.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 3:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Transactional foreign policy is not bribery. You do not become immune to laws by running for office.

By Panetta's own standards, Obama violated the law and his oath of office by using foreign intelligence services to.investigate Trump.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/06/2019 4:05 Comments || Top||

#3  By Panetta's own standards

Eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 4:09 Comments || Top||

#4  ABC News article 7 Feb 2013.

News Panetta Blames Time, Distance and Lack of Warning for U.S. Military Response to Benghazi
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 6:34 Comments || Top||

#5  The Grand Redirect.

What Panetta alleges is precisely what Biden did.

What Russiagate falsely alleged is precisely what Clinton did with Chalupa and the Ukrainians, and with Steele, GPS, Page/Strzok/McCabe, Halper, Mifsud, Downer and the Russians.

God what shitty people these are.

The only q here is, Will enough swing voters see through this obvious shell game?
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 9:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Biden Quid Pro Quo

Branco, "It's in the bag."
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/06/2019 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Great graphic, JohnQC. One simple cartoon puts it all into perfect perspective.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2019 12:59 Comments || Top||


US Jewish umbrella group slams Democratic hopefuls’ calls to leverage Israel aid
[IsraelTimes] Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group of more than 50 Jewish organizations from across the ideological spectrum, says ‘deeply troubled’ by statements from Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg that aid could be used to force policy change.

Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, along with Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, recently have indicated a willingness to use American aid to force policy changes by Israel, including halting settlement construction.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2019 01:18 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ‘deeply troubled’ by statements from Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg that aid could be used to force policy change.

Ok, so don't vote for ANY of these bottom feeders !
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 5:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Quid Pro Quo? Pre-impeach!
Posted by: Titus Pelosi2569 || 11/06/2019 5:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Did someone ask the Ethiopian jews to join the umbrella group ? Because I'm not sure they understood right.


"Alright. We're here. Now what ?"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/06/2019 5:13 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 And be accused of double-loyalty?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 5:15 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 😎
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 5:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Quid Pro Quo?

Only when Trump does it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2019 12:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group of more than 50 Jewish organizations from across the ideological spectrum, says ‘deeply troubled’ by statements from Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg that aid could be used to force policy change.

Bribery is what the Dems are calling it now. They are going to end up crippling future presidents (some of whom may be Dems) from establishing policy and carrying it out if they don't quit riding the impeachment horse.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/06/2019 15:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Squid Pro Squat.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 15:39 Comments || Top||


These Democratic presidential candidates could be the next political casualties
[MCCLATCHYDC] We’re now at the stage where financial and political realities crush the hopes of more. The pace of casualties will increase. Already a third of the overweight field has given up. Most recently, it was Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan.
... represents the area up around Akron, a Jim Traficant protege, tried to replace Nancy Pelosi as party head in 2016. He failed, of course, proving that youth and energy are no competition for old age and guile — which he demonstrated again when he failed to get anyone’s attention as presidential candidate...
Soon, it will be Julian Castro, among others, then likely Sens. Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
and Cory Spartacus Booker
U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone...
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Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Willie Brown gave dictation....and that little girl was me"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/06/2019 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  One of the largest group of losers recently assembled ...well after the Republicans in 2016 except the Winner of course.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 11/06/2019 6:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Is there an over-under on when Shrillary is going to announce that she's being "forced" to rescue the Democrat Party?
Posted by: AlanC || 11/06/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Another one hoping for a VP slot. No point continuing to crowd out the candidates. Now is the time to grab some coattails and hope you are noticed by their wearer.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/06/2019 8:13 Comments || Top||

#5  What a strange world when a guy named Castro is running for President. Can't wait for the next cycle when Stalin runs.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/06/2019 8:14 Comments || Top||

#6  "Hoosier Buttigieg"?

Willie Brown's, that's whoose!
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 9:22 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 What a strange world when a guy named Castro is running for President. Can't wait for the next cycle when Stalin runs

We already had Fartacus and Tex Kennedy. Next we'll probably have an actual prostitute run for president -- oh wait...
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 9:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, if you are dumb enough to pay for cable TeeVee, you will see these losers around. Since Sheppy Smith got fired at FauxNews they have a ghey quota slot open and I expect Buttgig will land there. Cornhoolian to Univision. Kamala-ala-dingdong to The View. Where will the rest land? You tell me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 11:22 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Bingo.

Grifters gotta keep on griftin'...

If you're a junior league Grifter who never made it to the White House, then your reward is in the 7 figures instead of 9 ( a la Gore, Clintons, and Zero).

For ex-Senators and Swamp brass, small screen beckons.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 11:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Bernie will do commercials for "The New Geritol formula."

"It gives half your iron to someone else, because if you are still alive you clearly have too much!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 12:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Don't waste any sympathy on Kamel-Toe. She has a safe seat in the Senate. The way California is these days, she will never have to break a sweat campaigning to keep it. She's still relatively young and has gained valuable experience in presidential politics. Wouldn't put it past her to try again some time in the future.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2019 12:29 Comments || Top||

#12  That assumes Cali is still a state down the road.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2019 12:59 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ (Part of a) Mexican state. Sonora Del Norte.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 15:11 Comments || Top||

#14  I think Hillary would get chewed alive in a debate if she were to run. Just think of all the stuff Trump probably has on her.

IMO, the country is not ready for an openly-gay POTUS. The other one was in the closet (sort of). Too much confusion for voters. Buttigeg is the Mrs. in his relationship. Can he be POTUS and the first lady too?

I'd say Bernie or Pocahontas.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/06/2019 15:31 Comments || Top||

#15  Poca.
Woman, nutcase, energetic/manic and not pushing 80 years old.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 15:36 Comments || Top||

#16  buttigieg will, in Jan 2020 become the former mayor of the 4th largest city in Indiana
Posted by: lord garth || 11/06/2019 16:02 Comments || Top||

#17  Buttigeg is the Mrs. in his relationship.

How do you get that, JohnQC? The other guy took his name when they married, and is a junior high school teacher. Mayor Pete has Harvard and Oxford degrees, was a Naval Reserve lieutenant in intelligence, and at some point worked as McKinsey consultant.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/06/2019 16:19 Comments || Top||

#18  My money is still on Biden. Iowa and NH won't matter less than people think.

Warren's healthcare plan is unsustainable. Even most Democrats understand this.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/06/2019 16:31 Comments || Top||

#19  Biden won't survive "Hunny"...or his brother.. or his niece... or...
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 16:35 Comments || Top||

#20  Buttigieg should not be underestimated though. He hasn't said too many dumb things yet.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/06/2019 17:06 Comments || Top||

#21  Butt. is 37 years old, and his entire political experience consists of being the mayor of a tiny little college town.

His candidacy is a joke.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 17:46 Comments || Top||

#22  Well crikey the whole gang looks like a Village People album cover.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/06/2019 18:10 Comments || Top||

#23  #21 - Mayor of a tiny town with high crime, racial strife, and a TOTAL Shithole if they didn't have Notre Dame
Posted by: Frank G || 11/06/2019 19:37 Comments || Top||

#24  FYI Burg mods, Willie was never mayor of Oakland. Twas ess eff. Corsets bin along thyme cents I paid mulch attention to my berth place.
Posted by: JHH || 11/06/2019 19:51 Comments || Top||

#25  Never forget that a "community organizer" was elected president.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/06/2019 21:08 Comments || Top||

#26  ^ NEVER AGAIN.

Exactly the problem with our Shitshow process. It promoted a stoner as an affirmative action admit to an elite college, where he f---ed around and learned nothing, whereupon he was accepted as an affirmative action admit to an elite law school, where he he f---ed around and learned nothing, whereupon he was accepted as an affirmative action admit to an elite law review, he f---ed around and WROTE NOTHING-- absolutely nothing-- which never happens for editors of that law review.

Whereupon he was accepted as an affirmative action hire to a Chicago law firm, where he f---ed around and achieved nothing and was, FINALLY, washed out and forced to confront his essential shallowness. At which point he reinvented himself as something called a "community organizer"-- who organized no one and, once again, achieved nothing. You know the rest.

Enough of this virtue signaling, identity politics Shitshow.

No more identity candidates. Never again.
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 21:25 Comments || Top||


#28  Mayor of a tiny town with high crime, racial strife, and a TOTAL Shithole if they didn't have Notre Dame

BINASH!
Posted by: Lex || 11/06/2019 21:46 Comments || Top||

#29  #17 Buttigeg is the Mrs. in his relationship.

I stand corrected and confused. Buttigieg is an impressive person with many accomplishments. Bright guy. He'd probably be the most difficult person to debate. I think the West and East coast left wing establishments would love him. IMO, the rest of the electorate is a little fed up with the Progressive game of "let's push a candidate who checks off as many of our identity politic categories as possible."
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/06/2019 23:22 Comments || Top||


Julián Castro Laying Off Staff in New Hampshire, South Carolina
[BREITBART] Longshot Democrat presidential candidate Julián Castro is laying off campaign staff in New Hampshire and South Carolina in order to focus his narrow resources in Iowa and Nevada, according to Politico.
Hold it! Somebody I never heard of has just quit the race? Hmm.
Castro is said to have told staffers in the early primary states that next week would be their last on the campaign. The development comes after Castro issued a fundraising plea to supporters late last month in which he sought $800,000 in donations over 10 days or he would be forced to drop out from the crowded Democrat presidential primary race. After the plea, Castro’s campaign said it raised $1 million for the month.
Like Spinal Tap, their appeal is becoming more selective
Although Castro has participated in all four DNC debates, the former San Antonio mayor and Obama-era Housing and Urban Development secretary has failed to gain traction in the polls.

In addition to Castro, Sen. Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
(D-CA) has been forced to downsize her flailing White House campaign amid dismal polling and overspending. She plans to lay off campaign staff and close three offices in New Hampshire as part of an effort to go "all-in on Iowa."

Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Leading Democrats Call for Conditioning Military Aid to Israel
[Free Beacon] Three leading Democratic presidential candidates recently endorsed a new policy regarding U.S. military aid to Israel: It should be conditioned on Israel embracing policies toward the Palestinians favored by American progressives.

At the J Street conference last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) demanded that Israel "fundamentally change" its approach to terrorist-controlled Gaza, adding, "I think it is fair to say that some [U.S. military aid to Israel] should go right now into humanitarian aid in Gaza." Israeli officials believe such moves would enable Hamas to import more weapons and lead to another war. South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg
... former presidential candidate and future former mayor. His husband must be a bit concerned that it’s his turn to support them both in the style to which a former McKinsey consultant is entitled to be accustomed...
called for cutting aid if Israel annexes the West Bank, which Israel has no plans to do. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) said military aid should be cut if Israel is "moving in the opposite direction" of the "two-state solution," which most progressives believe Israel is doing. None of the candidates announced demands on the Palestinians.

The statements show the extent to which anti-Israel sentiment has spread from progressive activists to the Democratic Party mainstream. The calls for aid cuts are at odds with the longstanding strategic rationale for military aid to Israel, which has never been intended to promote peace with the Palestinians or the two-state solution.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2019 03:51 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, what's the innovation here? Doing it before election?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/06/2019 5:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Many folks in the US are still in denial about the deep anti-Semitism among the Democrat faithful. Anything that calls attention to it is a good thing.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/06/2019 10:05 Comments || Top||



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