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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Carter was admitted to a hospital this past weekend for treatment for a urinary tract infection
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Skidmark || 12/03/2019 2:34 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Gun Confiscation Comes to Virginia
Remember assholes, you voted for this
[Spectator] Next year, Democrats will control both houses of Virginia's state Legislature as well as its governorship. On November 18, State Sen. Dick Saslaw introduced a bill that he will sponsor in the 2020 legislative session. That bill will outlaw not only the sale or transfer but also the possession of certain firearms.

Saslaw's bill - SB 16 - provides that "It is unlawful for any person to import, sell, manufacture, purchase, possess or transport an assault firearm" and makes such actions a Class 6 felony. (In Virginia, Class 6 felonies are punishable by imprisonment for between one and five years.)

SB 16 provides that a wide range of center-fire rifles, pistols, and shotguns are included in the definition of to-be illegal firearms:

1. A semi-automatic center-fire rifle that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material with a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 10 rounds;

2. A semi-automatic center-fire rifle that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material that has the ability to accept a detachable magazine and has one of the following characteristics: (i) a folding or telescoping stock; (ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the rifle; (iii) a thumbhole stock; (iv) a second handgrip or a protruding grip that can be held by the non-trigger hand; (v) a bayonet mount; (vi) a grenade launcher; (vii) a flare launcher; (viii) a silencer; (ix) a flash suppressor; (x) a muzzle brake; (xi) a muzzle compensator; (xii) a threaded barrel capable of accepting (a) a silencer, (b) a flash suppressor, (c) a muzzle brake, or (d) a muzzle compensator; or (xiii) any characteristic of like kind as enumerated in clauses (i) through (xii);

3. A semi-automatic center-fire pistol that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material with a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 10 rounds;

4. A semi-automatic center-fire pistol that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material that has the ability to accept a detachable magazine and has one of the following characteristics: (i) a folding or telescoping stock; (ii) a thumbhole stock; (iii) a second handgrip or a protruding grip that can be held by the non-trigger hand; (iv) the capacity to accept a magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip; (v) a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits the shooter to hold the pistol with the non-trigger hand without being burned; (vi) a manufactured weight of 50 ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded; (vii) a threaded barrel capable of accepting (a) a silencer, (b) a flash suppressor, (c) a barrel extender, or (d) a forward handgrip; or (viii) any characteristic of like kind as enumerated in clauses (i) through (vii);

5. A shotgun with a revolving cylinder that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material; or

6. A semi-automatic shotgun that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material that has one of the following characteristics: (i) a folding or telescoping stock, (ii) a thumbhole stock, (iii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the shotgun, (iv) the ability to accept a detachable magazine, (v) a fixed magazine capacity in excess of seven rounds, or (vi) any characteristic of like kind as enumerated in clauses (i) through (v).
There is no way in hell this will survive a court challenge, but it shows you what the fascist/socialist party is "gunning" for. Your complete disarmament and dependency on them.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/03/2019 08:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mini store business in WV, KY and NC gonna be brisk.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2019 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  And don't forget plastic straws...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2019 9:25 Comments || Top||

#3  It's all about setting up a cordon around the Imperial Capitol. That can work both ways.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2019 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  "Your honor, my personal defense weapon does not expel projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material. Y'see, this here innovative design simply propels a lathed piece of metal using simple expansion of gasses. The audible boom is also not an explosion, Sir. Doesn't happen when no one's around t' hear it. I swear."


Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/03/2019 10:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Actually, there is substantial reason to believe that the 1.2 million foreign born individuals voted for it.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/03/2019 10:44 Comments || Top||

#6  In other news, Black Friday weekend guns sales were enough to equipment the Marine Corps.

Remember Virginians, Jefferson's consent of the governed was bookended by Lincoln's willingness to give the last full measure of devotion.

Or in the old sergeant's words - are you prepared to die on that hill?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2019 10:53 Comments || Top||

#7  What Machiavelli said. "There is no surer way to be held in comtempt than to go about unarmed."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2019 10:59 Comments || Top||

#8  "No no no, we don't want to take your guns, just a few more steps to improve safety. Put down the coffee and stop being paranoid."

*wins Virginia*

(Randy Savage football spike voice)
"Oh yeah! Turn those guns in MFrs or we'll sic SWAT teams on you and your family and your businesses!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/03/2019 15:17 Comments || Top||

#9  I got your "explosive combustible material" right here, pal! .46 caliber, 22 rounds, capable of putting a ball thru a 1" board
Posted by: SteveS || 12/03/2019 16:25 Comments || Top||

#10  we'll sic SWAT teams on you and your family and your businesses!

That won't be the local sheriff. He and his deputies want to go home that night and walk back to their cars in the morning to drive to work.

They'll have to put together a state team. That might work one or two times. Then there be the inevitable Concord Bridge incident. The folks in Richmond will panic and activate the National Guard. Only to find out they are gun owners as well. Then watch the idiots call upon the President to send federal troops in. I could hear Trumping laughing already from here.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2019 17:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Seems like they don't consider rimfires to be dangerous.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/03/2019 20:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Kamala Harris drops out of presidential race after plummeting from top tier of Democratic candidates
Sen. Kamala Harris is ending her presidential campaign.

Harris, D-Calif., informed her staff Tuesday that she is suspending her campaign, an aide told CNBC.

Earlier Tuesday, CNBC reported that Harris canceled a fundraising event in New York amid reports of turmoil within her campaign.
Tulsi Gabbard says: "Kiss my @ss"
Harris, 55, was the only black candidate whose polling numbers and national media attention had placed her in the top tier of the 2020 contest, if only for a short while.

She made waves with her announcement in January, nailing a campaign rollout that earned praise from Democrats ‐ and even a compliment from President Donald Trump.

"I would say, the best opening so far would be Kamala Harris," Trump said at the time.

In the months following her positive first impression, Harris and her campaign showed the makings of a contender who might be in it for the long haul.

She landed perhaps the hardest and clearest punch of the early primary debate cycle, when she tore into the frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, over his comments about working with segregationist lawmakers and his past views on busing.

The attack gave her a spotlight on that stage, as well as a clear bump in the polls and a hefty fundraising boost.

But her rise in popularity appeared to evaporate soon after, and her performance in the second debate was widely viewed as subpar. Harris’ fundraising numbers consistently trailed her leading competitors, and some of her donors reportedly considered dropping her if she failed to impress going forward.

Asked about Harris’ exit from the 2020 race, Biden said Tuesday that he had "mixed emotions," though he added that Harris was a first-rate intellect and a strong competitor, NBC News reported.

A spokesman for the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on the latest departure from the Democratic primary.

Harris also faced criticism on her policy platform. In her breakout first debate performance in June, Harris had raised her hand when a moderator asked which of the candidates supported abolishing private insurance in favor of a government-run single-payer alternative.

A day later, she appeared to reverse herself, saying a Harris administration would preserve supplemental private insurance.

As the Iowa caucuses neared, Harris’ campaign further suffered from a lack of a clear strategy and a fractured and disgruntled campaign staff, according to multiple media reports.

By the end of November, the RealClearPolitics aggregate of candidate polls showed Harris sliding into the low single digits, while the nearest candidate above her, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, appeared to be surging higher.
Posted by: Beavis || 12/03/2019 13:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


California Senator Kamala Harris drops out out of presidential race
[Politico] Kamala Harris is dropping out of the presidential race, she told staff on a call Tuesday. She will release a video momentarily announcing her plans.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2019 13:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "and that little whore girl was me"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/03/2019 13:20 Comments || Top||

#2  IIRC it wasn't that long ago that she was the #1 choice for a lot of pundit types.


Oooops.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/03/2019 13:22 Comments || Top||

#3  "and that little whore girl was me"
That could be Snark of the Day.

I'm sorry to see her go. Not because she was a viable candidate or would make a good Prez (saints preserve us!). I'm just in it for the chaos. Bring on the clowns!
Posted by: SteveS || 12/03/2019 13:35 Comments || Top||

#4  ...My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue ."

Yeah..that's it. It's a money thing. Personally I'm the perfect choice...just not enough cash
Posted by: Warthog || 12/03/2019 14:05 Comments || Top||

#5  We're not out of the woods yet.

God forbid the whore isn't given Attorney General by a Dem POTUS.

GOTV.
Posted by: Lex || 12/03/2019 14:05 Comments || Top||

#6  "simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue..."

Or available 'Willies'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/03/2019 14:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Couldn't happen soon enough. And to a nicer person (sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2019 14:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Drops out of race; good thing for the knee pads.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/03/2019 15:02 Comments || Top||

#9  She is setting up her VP run.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/03/2019 16:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Darn. Now my Harris/Abrams (and the coveted Abrams/Harris "who's on top") bumper stickers are no longer useful to stir things up. Collector's items maybe!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/03/2019 16:17 Comments || Top||

#11  The Orange Man has a 'Schiff Pot' full of money. Mebe he could loan her some to stay in the game. She'll be missed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2019 17:13 Comments || Top||

#12  ...My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue ."

In the marketplace of ideas, your product didn't sell. Welcome to the invisible hand of the marketplace, something totally alien to socialist authoritarians like yourself.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2019 17:23 Comments || Top||

#13  In the marketplace of ideas, your product didn't sell. Welcome to the invisible hand of the marketplace,

Good point. Likely one reason why Hillary is so pissy about losing - she was rejected by the consumers. The people have spoken, the bastards!

Given Kamala's political history, there is a New C*ck Coke joke in there, but I ain't touching it.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/03/2019 17:57 Comments || Top||

#14  Good fucking riddance.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/03/2019 19:27 Comments || Top||

#15  Headline from Ace of Spades: "Kamala Harris Dropping Out of Presidential Race to Spend More Time With Her White Wine Spritzer and Vibrator" Harsh but fair.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/03/2019 19:36 Comments || Top||

#16  Lol
Posted by: Frank G || 12/03/2019 19:52 Comments || Top||

#17  Beware. She's likely running for Attorney General.
God help us.
Posted by: Lex || 12/03/2019 20:29 Comments || Top||

#18  Only if a demoncrat wins Lex.

If that happens, the US is done.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/03/2019 22:09 Comments || Top||

#19  GOTV. Leave nothing to chance. WI and OH and MI will determine the outcome.
Posted by: Lex || 12/03/2019 23:35 Comments || Top||


Dec 19 Dem Prez Debate: 6 qualified so far, 3 close
Biden, Buttigieg, Harris, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren have qualified.

Yang and Gabbard need one more poll.

Steyer needs to reach donor number threshold.

Booker needs 4 more polls and thus doesn't look like he'll make it.

Deval Patrick only announced recently and won't qualify.

Mike Bloomberg won't be accepting ANY donations and so will not be in any of the Dem Debates. He has, however, used his decline of donations as a talking point in ads and is already past Kamala Harris in some polls.

Details at the link.
Posted by: lord garth || 12/03/2019 11:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  update

Steyer reached the donor threshold and he will be in the December debate.
Posted by: lord garth || 12/03/2019 13:18 Comments || Top||

#2  My wife just informed me Kamala has dropped out.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/03/2019 13:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh, goody - more insufferable Tom Steyer ads to look forward to. I heard the same 'Term Limits!' radio ad every fucking 1/2 hour on the local sports talk radio channel yesterday.
Posted by: Raj || 12/03/2019 13:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Mr. Steyer has been advertising on Cincinnati television for a few days now.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/03/2019 23:48 Comments || Top||


Hunter Biden blows off court hearing over child support
h/t Gates of Vienna
[Daily Mail] The lawyer representing Hunter Biden in his paternity case abruptly withdrew on Monday while his client blew off the hearing, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

Biden, 49, was not in the second-floor courtroom in Batesville, Arkansas, when his attorney former Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel quit.

...In the hearing, Judge Don McSpadden said he would need at least three years of Biden's tax returns before he could reach a decision on monetary support for the child, whose sex has not been revealed.

Earlier this week, DailyMail.com revealed Biden filed a request to seal all financial records to spare himself public 'embarrassment' amid claims of 'significant debts'.

...In his motion to withdraw, McDaniel ‐ a former Arkansas Attorney General ‐ said Biden's personal lawyer had 'advised' him that he was being discharged.

'(C)ounsel will take all steps reasonably practical to protect defendant's interests and make every effort to ensure an efficient and judicious transition for new counsel.' McDaniel wrote.

Judge McSpadden also ordered Biden's team to provide Roberts with a valid address and phone number for him so papers can be properly served.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/03/2019 03:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A glowing example of disregard for the law on the part of our rancid elites.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2019 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  That $1 billion dollar trip to China is gonna mess with his yearly average.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/03/2019 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Even at this late stage I am shocked by this disregard for the law. Just who does Hunter Biden think he is?
Posted by: Tom || 12/03/2019 14:37 Comments || Top||

#4  ^"You know who my father is?!"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/03/2019 14:44 Comments || Top||

#5  His father doesn't know who his father is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/03/2019 15:00 Comments || Top||

#6  "You know who your son is?"
Posted by: Lex || 12/03/2019 16:26 Comments || Top||

#7  #2 - Income averaging. Raj can say more
Posted by: Frank G || 12/03/2019 19:03 Comments || Top||


Buttigieg Agrees That Illegal Aliens Are ‘Reclaiming Stolen Land’
[HOTAIR] Are we really still referring to South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
as one of the "moderate" candidates in the Democratic primary? Because if so, he’s really doing his level best to shed that title and move into the socialist lane. Yesterday he was having a discussion with the Reverend William Barber when the subject of illegal immigration came up. Barber tossed out some seriously open borders style propositions and found a willing ear with Buttigieg.

First Barber asked if we shouldn’t stop "demonizing" illegal aliens. Mayor Pete didn’t just agree with him. He went one step further, saying "Yeah, I mean the uncomfortable reality is that undocumented folks are in many ways, like Social Security, subsidizing everybody else."
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  SS, Part 207.

This absurd comment -- "the uncomfortable reality is that undocumented folks are...subsidizing everybody else" -- shows how completely out of touch with reality our ridiculous political class is.

Got it? Illegals are subsidizing us.
Right.

Night = day.
Up = down.
Slavery = freedom.
Illegal alien carpetbaggers = Heroic Citizens.

We are ruled by morons.
Posted by: Lex || 12/03/2019 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Allowing Illegals IS subsidising THEM.
Lower wages and higher rents make THEM richer and the vast majority of Americans poorer (and living in more danger of crime).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/03/2019 4:37 Comments || Top||

#3  I cannot blame Bloomberg for jumping into the race. At least he's somewhat sane.
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/03/2019 5:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Mr. Bloomberg is in the race to beat Sanders and Warren, not Trump. It's self preservation for him and his caste. They're taking the neo-Bolsheviks as a serious threat.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/03/2019 7:27 Comments || Top||

#5  "How about a nice hot cup of shut the....."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/03/2019 7:42 Comments || Top||

#6  SS, continued. Supposedly smarty-pants Pete can't even do basic arithmetic. The illegals send billions of $ earned in the US out of this country every year - back to Mexico.

They are literally "subsidizing" the Mexican countryside and artificially propping up the Mexican economy - at the expense of the American communities that educate their children in the public schools, provide them healthcare through local ERs funded by Obamacare, and absorb the cost of other public services for them.

Including the cost of their Obamacare, we are now spending on the order of $100 billion so that these invaders can trash our low-end labor market and send almost the same amount of hard currency out of this country. That a US politician cannot see this basic equation or do this math should be enough reason to throw him out of office.

"Mayor Pete" = Maroon Pete.
Posted by: Lex || 12/03/2019 8:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Leftists see economics as a zero sum game. Except when they don't.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2019 8:44 Comments || Top||

#8  OK, Petie, go to the UN and advocate for restoring Hungary’s pre-WWI borders, then get back to me.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 12/03/2019 9:33 Comments || Top||

#9  At least he's somewhat sane.

My money is on George Papoon.
Papoon for President - Not Insane
Posted by: SteveS || 12/03/2019 10:50 Comments || Top||

#10  And Porgy Tirebiter for VP. It's an all male ticket but what the heck?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2019 11:16 Comments || Top||

#11  No opinions on Mexico Mr Buttigieg? A state that is so bad their citizens have to sneak across the border at great risk to earn enough money to survive? A state whose pro-oligarchy policies limit foreign investment that might help the situation while also ensuring that those forced to seek jobs in America come primarily from Mexico's Indigenous groups and not from those descended from Europeans?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/03/2019 11:23 Comments || Top||

#12  What's the Spanish word? Maricon...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2019 12:29 Comments || Top||

#13  I'm coming to the thinking that the democrats actually all have a death wish, they are too cowardly to off themselves so they're trying to get us to wipe them out.

Well, if they wanna start the music, I'm game.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/03/2019 18:37 Comments || Top||


Are You Ready For Presidential Candidate Adam Schiff?
Brilliant idea. Throw more Progressive money straight into the national economy without stopping to get yet another Democrat elected to anything.
[HOTAIR] It’s not going to happen this election cycle, however, there is speculation Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Congressman 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...
is looking towards higher office. The only question is how high. A new report from The Hill suggests Schiff has his eyes on either the Senate or a future residency in the White House.

Some Democrats see him as the natural heir to 86-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein
...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator....
(D-Calif.); others say the 19-year Southern California congressman is a House guy through and through and could one day run to succeed Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
(D-Calif.), his close ally. One of his House colleagues from the Golden State said she saw a president in the making as Schiff led the televised hearings these past two weeks.

"When we look at the characteristics of what we want to see in a president, it is somebody who is not going to lose composure because he’s been poked. And we’re seeing that on display from Adam Schiff every single day," said the California Democratic politician. "He’s not too vanilla. But I kind of want that now after Trump. We need boring; boring is good."

Schiff obviously isn’t boring but someone who appears to be doing his best to be a Very Serious Politician when he’s far from it. He proved it last week in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper where he spoke from both sides of his mouth on the impeachment question. Tapper asked Schiff directly if he believed President Donald Trump should be impeached and the answer was, "I want to discuss this with my constituents and my colleagues before I make a final judgment on it."

Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I smell desperation.
Posted by: Lex || 12/03/2019 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Works for me. doesn't even need to wear a clown mask to fit in with the rest of the candidates from the Party of Slavery, Treason and Corruption (TM).
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/03/2019 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  OJ should've run for President. then he could claim that prosecution for murder was all political.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 12/03/2019 7:31 Comments || Top||

#4  The stay-outta-jail card.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/03/2019 8:19 Comments || Top||

#5  With or without the big red clown nose?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/03/2019 8:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh please oh please!
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/03/2019 8:53 Comments || Top||

#7  A story about a doofus politician based solely on speculation and his perceived worth as a Presidential candidate - that's a lotta worthless elements right there.
Posted by: Raj || 12/03/2019 13:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Schiff is as disliked as Hillary. IMO, it won't happen. Schiff is too dirty.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2019 14:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Great idea for a bumper sticker! Maybe a Schiff / Nadler ticket?

And I am getting "you have commented 0 times on Rantburg" messages. Was it the bumper stickers?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/03/2019 16:23 Comments || Top||

#10  Am I?! Let me warm up some Kung Pow Beef and let's get this on.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/03/2019 17:50 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden, who’s never met Kim Jong Un, claims he ‘spent a lot of time’ with him
[BIZPACREVIEW] Democratic gaffe machine Joe Biden continued his role as the unofficial chair of the Trump reelection campaign by making another epic blunder that underscores that someone should put a fork in him. Because he’s done. This time, Biden — who never met Kim Jong Un — claimed he “spent a lot of time” with the leader of North Korea.

Biden spouted the boldfaced lie during a campaign stop in Iowa on Saturday (Nov. 30). Joe bragged to a tiny roomful of supporters that authoritarian leaders like Kim Jong Un will never fool him because he knows who they are at their core, which is brutal dictators.

“You’re gonna have to assume that position from the moment they are sworn in on January the 20th and know the rest of the world knows that person — in this case, me — and that I know them,” Biden boasted.

Joe continued: “Putin has no illusions about whether I know him or not. Kim Jong Un is another person [who knows] whether I know him or not. The same with Xi Jinping. I’ve spent a lot of time with these folks. They know, they know [me],” Biden said.

Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So tell us, Plugz: What does Kim's hair smell like?

or tell us what his finger tastes like. your choice
Posted by: Lex || 12/03/2019 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Now I know why he called him a rabid dog !



Oh Gawd I can't stop laughing...
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/03/2019 2:25 Comments || Top||

#3  More like bloodhound: got the scent.
Posted by: Lex || 12/03/2019 2:43 Comments || Top||


If Trump is ‘racist’ for questioning Waters’ IQ, What is Waters for questioning the intelligence of Dr. Carson?
[BIZPACREVIEW] Among the reasons Democrats and their media sympathizers offer to show President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s alleged "racism" is that he called Rep. The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters
...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.00464 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.00259 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
, D-Calif., a "low IQ individual."

At a July 2018 rally in Montana, Trump said: "She is a low I.Q. individual, Comrade Maxine Waters. I said it the other day. I mean, honestly, she’s somewhere in the mid-60s, I believe that." And in June 2018, Trump tweeted: "Congresswoman Comrade Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!"

Trump’s tweet was in response to a fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
Water’s speech in which she urged a campaign of harassment against members of Trump’s cabinet: "Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere."

Now, Trump, of course, frequently calls people, politicians, policies, Democrats and many Republicans of all stripes and colors "dumb" or "stupid." A recent example occurred last month at a Minnesota campaign rally when Trump slammed (white) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "She’s either got one of two problems: she’s either really stupid or she’s really lost it, or maybe there’s a certain dishonesty there." In July, Trump called the (white) British Ambassador to the United States "a very stupid guy" for criticizing Trump in diplomatic cables published in a British newspaper.

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#1  Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up

I thought that was one of their main problems. Ooop raycism !
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/03/2019 2:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Personally, I'll keep believing that "African-American" Democratic politicians are secret agents for the Klan.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/03/2019 2:48 Comments || Top||

#3  In turn they argued "SHUT UP!"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/03/2019 4:34 Comments || Top||

#4  What is Waters for questioning the intelligence of Dr. Carson?

a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/03/2019 6:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, remember these things. If someone who has never met you says you are a rayciss bigot Nazi, then you are. If a psychologist (not a psychiatrist, not licensed to practice) says someone she never met (let alone examined) says that person is clinically insane, then they are. If Dan Rather tells you it's false but accurate then it is. If a congressman tells you hearsay is superior to documented fact then it is. One could go on and on..
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2019 6:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh, and the important one, the nation's foreign policy is best left to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. Only a dumb prole would think otherwise.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/03/2019 6:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, since Mad Max is black, she cannot be racist, no matter what she says.
Also, she criticized Dr. Carson, who is not only black, but a man, so she gets a pass.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/03/2019 7:33 Comments || Top||

#8  She's been in power so long she goes around saying whatever dumbass ideas pop into her head because she can get away with it and the dumbass reporters take her seriously. Nobody calls her on it, she is never held to account and she's too stupid to realize that she is an object of ridicule. She feels no shame because she has none.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/03/2019 11:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Are we certain Waters was actually elected by the citizen voters of this land? Has anyone looked into that?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/03/2019 14:18 Comments || Top||

#10  First husband was Edward Waters. Second husband is Sid Williams. Interestingly she does not use her current spouse's last name as her name.
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365 || 12/03/2019 18:58 Comments || Top||

#11  She's using her most recognizable names...except "Stupid Racist Grifter Dirtbag"...cuz it cost to much in political signs printing costs
Posted by: Frank G || 12/03/2019 20:07 Comments || Top||



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