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-Great Cultural Revolution
White House, Media Hide ‘Largest Update to Our Immigration System in 30 Years'
[Breitbart] Democrats and business allies are hiding two huge changes to legal immigration law under their media-magnified demands for the amnesty of illegal migrants.

But the rising GOP opposition is forcing the advocates to defend their power-grab as the Democrats’ “Build Back Better” spending bill faces a vote on Friday, November 5: “These provisions would be largest update to our immigration system in 30 years,” tweeted the Niskanen Center, which supports the expansion of legal immigration.

The bill offers fast-track green cards for just $5,000 to at least one million foreign temporary contract workers already in the United States. Those green cards would let them permanently work in the United States and also become U.S. voters in five years.

The green card giveaway would drain wealth and political power from the 800,000 Americans who graduate each year with technology-intensive degrees in healthcare, business, math, science, and engineering.

Those green cards also would not count against the nation’s roughly one million annual cap on legal immigrants.

Once the existing workers get their green cards, they will be quickly augmented by the next wave of low-wage, mid-skill foreign graduates who are recruited by the Fortune 500’s dangled promises of more fast-track green cards.

This migration process would allow many CEOs to do what they prefer: Subordinate a generation of outspoken U.S. graduates under a vast supply of clever and subordinate foreigners who will rationally work as lower-wage, compliant, indentured employees to get their life-changing green cards.

The green-cards-for-cash law will establish structural discrimination against millions of American graduates, said Rob Law at the Center for Immigration Studies. It will be “inherently impossible [for U.S. graduates] to compete [for jobs because] the foreign workers will always accept less pay because they also get the incredibly lucrative benefit of permanency in the United States,” he said.

This green-card-for-cash rule would also allow millions of other poor chain migrants to buy their way into Americans’ society, housing markets, jobs, and schools, at a price of just $2,500 per family. The bill exempts these chain migrants from the annual caps, despite the huge economic impact on Americans and legal immigrants.

The White House’s two-page “Statement of Administration Policy” hides the ball with a one-sentence reference: “The bill also includes important reforms to our legal immigration system, which will help reduce visa processing backlogs.”

House Democrats bury the giveaways in complex language on page 869 of the 2,135-page document, in a section titled “SEC. 60003. ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS.”

Democratic legislators and lobbyists are hiding the giveaway behind a television-magnified, brass band of ethnic advocates and elite-funded groups. These groups are keeping the media focused on illegal migrants by loudly urging an amnesty for millions of illegal migrants, via the much-publicized amnesty Plan A, the amnesty-by-registry Plan B, and amnesty-by-parole Plan C.

Reporters hide the ball, often unwillingly. The New York Times only said the plan would “allow green card applicants to pay higher fees to expedite their processing. The Washington Post only said the bill would “eliminate certain penalties that would allow people who applied legally to the United States for citizenship to receive their naturalization faster.” A tweet from Roll Call just said, “the green card recapture/application fees provisions that have been in the previous two House texts remain in the bill.”

House Republicans are not looking for the green-cards-for-cash plan, but instead prefer to chatter about the rush of migrants at the border.

Yet the growing pushback from three outspoken GOP Senators — plus the shock of the GOP’s Virginia win — is helping to force the green-cards-for-cash giveaway into the open.

“Democrats have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to modernize the existing U.S. immigration system,” said a November 2 letter to four Democratic Senators, ostensibly from a broad series of ethnic lobby groups, such as the Asian American Advocacy Fund or Sakhi for South Asian Women. The letter continued:

Presently, there are over 4 million [people] in the family-based backlog and over 1 million individuals currently stuck in the employment-based backlog … Provisions in the House reconciliation bill would provide an exemption from annual and per-country limitations upon the payment of a supplemental fee …

A close read shows that the letter is not signed by some of the major groups for migrants, such as United We Dream or Casa. Not is it signed by many of the groups in the progressive-funded WeAreHome.us campaign.

Instead, the letter is signed by proxies for many billionaires — Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us group of West Coast investors, Mike Bloomberg’s New American Economy, Laurene Powell Jobs’ Immigration Hub, and Silicon Valley‘s TechNet.

These Fortune 500 employers, investors, and real-estate companies will likely gain many billions in stock-market wealth if the bill becomes law. It provides them with a huge inflow of lower-wage, mid-skill, foreign college-graduate employees plus millions of taxpayer-aided, blue-collar chain-migration consumers.

The signers also include numerous groups that are funded or boosted by these billionaires. For example, Zuckerberg’s FWD.us investor-advocacy group helped create the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, and has funded the Niskanen Center.

The letter is also signed by groups that stand to make money via more migration, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Immigration Law Center, and the trade association for corporate hiring managers, the Society for Human Resource Management.

This lobbying push is being led by Zuckerberg’s FWD.us network of coastal investors who stand to gain from more cheap labor, government-aided consumers, and urban renters. The network has funded many astroturf campaigns, urged Democrats to not talk about the economic impact of migration, and manipulated coverage by the TV networks and the print media.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2021 08:53 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Little of which matches legislative law.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2021 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  "update" - LOL

undocumented = criminal
amnesty = larceny
update = sedition
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 11:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Lots of stuff for the GOPe to promise to undo and then not touch when they are in the majority.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Little dated now but relevant. Jewish Gypsy travels the world;
Posted by: Dale || 11/06/2021 15:50 Comments || Top||


Economy
Backlog Report: Nearly 160 Ships Waiting Outside Los Angeles Ports to Unload Goods
[Breitbart] Nearly 160 ships on Friday are reportedly waiting outside Long Beach and Los Angeles port complex to unload goods, Bloomberg reported.

The backlog of cargo ships outside the complex, which receives about 40 percent of the containers from around the world, is likely a main driver in President Biden’s supply chain crisis. The supply chain crisis has fueled price increases in nearly every sector of the economy for American families and workers.

Of the nearly 160 ships waiting to dock and offload cargo, Marine Exchange estimates 102 vessels are containers ships waiting to move cargo onto the docks, including 76 ships that are anchored or loitering outside the bay.

The amount of ships waiting to unload goods seems to be increasing. Breitbart News reported October 19 that 100 ships were delayed from delivering goods – a record-breaking amount. Near the end of September, 60 ships were reported to be anchored and waiting to unload.

The backlog of vessels is due to the overflowing amount of containers at the ports. The ports are unable to move the containers onto trains or trucks quickly enough to keep up with supply. Breitbart News reported the backlog on the docks exist because ports are not releasing containers to truckers, though it is not known exactly why.

One challenge truck drivers are experiencing is California’s “climate change” red tape. The South Coast Air Quality Management District issued a rule in May that requires supply chain points to hire electric vans or trucks instead of trucks that have larger capacity, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Moreover, the state’s Air Resources Board has required truckers to reduce trucking emissions, making it more costly and difficult to transport freight from ports to warehouses.

Truck drivers, many of whom are immigrants, must not only keep up with California’s burdensome regulations, they are required to finance their own trucks, along with repairs.

If the truckers are late on a payment, become sick, or do not have money to repair the truck, the trucking companies fire the driver and repossessed the truck, along with any equity the driver has invested, USA Today reported.

The drivers who are not fired “sometimes end up owing money to their employers” and are unable to get out from under the debt. Unable to repay their employer, drivers essentially work for free, never able to earn much money.

As red tape and labor exploitation has impacted California’s truckers, the industry has fallen short of recruiting enough truckers to fill demand. In October, the American Trucking Association (ATA) revealed the trucking industry was short 80,000 drivers, 30 percent more than before the pandemic.

In the United States, the trucking industry represents 71 percent of transported goods. The percentage is expected to increase overtime, which could leave the ATA searching for 1,600,000 new drivers by 2030, CNN estimated.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2021 08:49 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Guess they can't traverse the Canal?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||

#2  160? Not a typo? AYFKM?

It's getting surreal now... Tell me this is not happening
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I have the app called BoatWatch which allows you to view (and somewhat track) ships on a map. Below is what it shows for Long Beach. Pretty Crowded.


By clicking on a ship it will show the details. At least one shows an ETA of October 5th (I presume that is the date it arrived). Others have more recent times.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/06/2021 13:45 Comments || Top||

#4  just send them gps coordin for rio grande river!
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 11/06/2021 13:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Those operating the CA ports are stuck on stupid.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/06/2021 15:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Gather all those illegals and begin digging a canal from north of San Diego to Brownsville. It'll take a while but the work can continue as long as they keep providing the labor.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2021 16:05 Comments || Top||

#7  In the United States, the trucking industry represents 71 percent of transported goods. The percentage is expected to increase overtime, which could leave the ATA searching for 1,600,000 new drivers by 2030, CNN estimated.

Long haul trucking will be the first application of driverless AI to be put into widespread use.
Posted by: Hupusolet Smith5796 || 11/06/2021 16:52 Comments || Top||


Energy Secretary Granholm laughs off notion of boosting US oil production: 'That is hilarious'
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm
...Former Dem governess of Michigan, Energy Secretary under the Biden administration. She'll likely consider that enough to qualify her for a presidential bid come next election...
laughed off the notion of encouraging more domestic oil production to blunt high gasoline prices and said matters are exclusively in OPEC's hands.

"That is hilarious," Granholm responded while laughing to Bloomberg Surveillance host Tom Keene's question about the "Granholm plan" to increase oil production in America.

"Would that I had the magic wand on this," Granholm said. "As you know, of course, oil is a global market. It is controlled by a cartel. That cartel is called OPEC."

Granholm brought up OPEC's and its allies' recent decision not to stray from its plan to increase production by 400,000 barrels per day next month despite the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
urging the cartel to produce more than that to reduce prices.

Republicans have been especially critical of the administration for leaning on OPEC to boost global oil supply while seeking to undo Trump administration policies favoring production and pursuing policies to limit fossil fuel production and use, such as through President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan....
's early orders revoking the Keystone XL pipeline and pausing new oil and gas leases on federal lands.

"We will not ask OPEC to solve our problems," House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy
...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's...
said in an energy roundtable with fellow GOP politicians last week. "We can solve them here in America."

Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Face of a Buffoons' Party Leadership in a strategic office of the U.S. Government; her laughter only solidifies the case against her continued place in the U.S. Administration and her position as Energy Secretary.

To date Two Cackling Buffoons' Identified -

Jennifer Granholm

Kamala Harris

Just short of 10 months of the Biden Administration. This is what we get.
Posted by: Phater Thromble9981 || 11/06/2021 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  The joke that keeps on giving. So much SNL material that you don't have to make it up.
Posted by: Dale || 11/06/2021 3:37 Comments || Top||

#3  She's a rich liberal white woman from suburbia. So the stereotypical karen from karenocracy central.

She hates regular people as she swigs the wine box. Prime Democrat.
Posted by: Percy Flotle3938 || 11/06/2021 5:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Beginning her response with moronic Kamala-cackling, she points to OPEC as owning the solution. A Berkeley and Harvard product, CNN contributor, and Obama appointee. Eminently qualified to stump for the Green New Deal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2021 6:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Marxism: first time (1917-1991) as tragedy, the second time (2021-- ) as farce.

As a measure of this nation's decline -- and impending fall -- note how every one of these retarded buffoons is either a product of, or tightly intertwined with, America's elite academic institutions.

The ferret who has presided over the trashing of rule of law in this country -- who has created a de facto gulag for scores of political prisoners in DC, who has unleashed the FBI on moms and dads, formally designating them "domestic terrorists" -- this cringeing shithead who is destroying our justice system is a graduate of our most distinguished law school.

The Treasury Secretary who denies the reality of high inflation, supports a $4 trillion spending carnival and its orgy of graft, the depraved witch who wants the IRS to scrutinize every single bank deposit or transfer of $600 or more -- this moron and lifelong hack has a PhD from the nation's other Olympian institution.

The buffoonish current Secretary of State who presided over our country's most appalling foreign-policy debacle in at least 60 years, the guitar-playing idiot who is more concerned with hanging rainbow flags at our embassies than with any threat to our nation's security, is a Harvard grad. His top deputy has an advanced degree from Yale.

The head of Homeland Security has done more in his ten short months to create insecurity in the homeland than any foreign or domestic enemy by presiding over the complete collapse of our southern border. This incompetent is a partner at one of the nation's top BigLaw firms and is a graduate of our top "public ivy" institution.

The Transportation Secretary has presided over the collapse of American shipping and logistics and lacks even the faintest notion of how to resurrect them. He's another Harvard grad and a Rhodes scholar.

The current Energy Secretary thinks US oil and gas production has no connection to the price of West Texas crude. She's another Harvard Law and UC Berkeley grad.

And fully one-third of the aides to Pres. Pervert Magoo and his rancid skank of a VP are from either Harvard or Yale. The most incompetent administration in the modern era is stocked with graduates of our most prestigious schools.

These moronic clowns are universally scorned by the leaders of the nation's and the industries they're supposed to influence. They are making our nation the world's laughingstock. We have never seen such incompetence and destruction across every dimension of governance -- security, foreign policy, defense, law enforcement, the economy, energy production, the border and immigration, even our ports and supply chain.

Literally EVERYTHING these assholes touch has gone to hell.

What on earth have we done to deserve this scourge?



Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#6  we've been complacently sitting on our Asses.
Posted by: 746 || 11/06/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#7  "Would that I had the magic wand on this," Granholm said.

Ask Trump for his wand - he had this problem solved before all of you fucked it up on purpose.
Posted by: Raj || 11/06/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Shove your hitachi magic wand up your arse, you moron. The solution to high prices is called increasing domestic supply, and it was easily achieved through the normal operations of the oil marketplace that gives huge incentives to clever E&P company leaders to apply fracking and other cutting-edge extraction technologies to get at tight oil lodged in shake.

If this b!tch had even an ounce of intellectual horsepower she'd have known the above. A Texas twelve year-old knows more about oil & gas than this dimpled ditz.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 11:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Well, given the supply chain issues and a very justifiable fear of rushing headlong into another bust cycle, the O&G industry is expanding it's production quite slowly. I think people in it are realizing that slow and steady keeps us all employed and we like having jobs. So we'll wait out sleepy joe and his blow up doll, and see what the future brings.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/06/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Just a reminder.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2021 13:06 Comments || Top||

#11  If I had a gas station, this would be on the gas pump message cycle. Like, every time a card is swiped.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/06/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||

#12  The complete confusion and disorder in your country is engineered by your CIA, enforced by your FBI, regulated by your DOJ
The racketeering and theft must continue, you cannot stop them.
Shock and awe it’s applied to your society, in order to destroy your will to fight or investigate THEM
Posted by: Ichnusa || 11/06/2021 14:38 Comments || Top||

#13  Ref #2: I remain hopeful the Klingons can be stopped.


Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2021 15:28 Comments || Top||

#14  Democrats are satans asshole.
Posted by: newc || 11/06/2021 15:49 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Dossier critic Fiona Hill introduced main source to Steele ‐ and, Durham says, 'PR Exec-1'
[Washington Examiner] Fiona Hill has criticized Christopher Steele and said his dossier likely contained Russian disinformation, but she introduced Igor Danchenko, the main source for the research who was indicted in special counsel John Durham's investigation, to both the former MI6 agent and allegedly a Democratic public relations executive who volunteered for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

Hill, who worked at the Brookings Institution with Danchenko for years before serving as the Russia expert on Trump’s National Security Council and testifying during the Ukraine-focused impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump, introduced Dachenko and Steele a decade ago.

The "PR Executive-1" in Durham’s indictment against Danchenko is Charles Dolan, a longtime ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton, whom Durham alleges was an originator of a false dossier claim he passed to Danchenko who then gave it to Steele.

Danchenko, a Russian-born lawyer in the United States, was charged Thursday "with five counts of making false statements to the FBI" that Durham claims he made about the information he provided for Steele's dossier on alleged ties between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia.

Durham’s indictment stated Danchenko worked as a Russian analyst at "Think Tank-1," Brookings, from 2005 through 2010. Durham also stated "Think Tank Employee-1," identifiable as Hill, "introduced Danchenko to U.K. Person-1," Steele. The indictment said Steele "retained Danchenko as a contractor at U.K. Investigative Firm-1," Steele’s Orbis Business Intelligence — in 2011.

The special counsel also said Hill "introduced Danchenko to PR Executive-1," Dolan, "in connection with potential business opportunities" around February 2016.
Posted by: Hupusolet Smith5796 || 11/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The indictment said Steele "retained Danchenko as a contractor at U.K. Investigative Firm-1," Steele’s Orbis Business Intelligence — in 2011.

Not unlike our own former intelligence people, MI6 veterans simply follow the compensation packages.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2021 3:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Pic added. Remember her?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/06/2021 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  The FSB and GRU could not possibly have done more damage to this country than these traitorous buffoons have done with this preposterous hoax. They are literally destroying this nation.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Don't forget the mainstream media idiots and liars who went merrily along with the hoax.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/06/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||


FBI RAIDS New York apartments linked to Project Veritas in investigation into how Ashley Biden's personal diary was stolen and published online
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The FBI searched two homes, one in New York and one in Westchester County

  • The addresses were linked to the conservative website Project Veritas

  • Founder James O'Keefe confirmed the searches in a video on Friday

  • He said Project Veritas received the diary from a 'tipster' and they tried to give it back to the first family

  • In October, Ashley Biden reported multiple items had been stolen in a burglary

  • Trump's DOJ then launched an investigation under AG Bill Barr
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whether the item being investigated was genuine has long been in doubt. Now the FBI raid indicates it is genuine.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/06/2021 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  FBI is merely a tool for Biden. Did FBI ever do anything regarding Hunters laptop?, Big fat NO.
Posted by: Dale || 11/06/2021 3:34 Comments || Top||

#3  At one point, former British spy Richard Seddon was recruited to train operatives at Project Veritas. Seddon owns a company, Branch Six Consulting International, registered to an address in Sheridan, Wyo. Flyover Media, the company that owns the website that published the diary, is registered to that same address.

Referred to Veritas by Erik Prince, Sedden gained contract employment with Veritas.....then did what? And who is now investigating ?

'Branch Six Consulting'...how very original. Incorporated 15 February 2016.
A bit more on Sedden found here.

Are there Orbis Business Intelligence or Watergate Hotel connections by chance ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2021 3:45 Comments || Top||

#4 
1st of all "Project Veritas did not publish the diary and tried to return it. They attempted to return it to an attorney representing Ashley. The attorney refused to authenticate the diary, so he said they then turned it into law enforcement. "

BUT!MORE INTERESTING
Is how Trump's FBI was quick to jump on this for the Biden family back in 2020. But did not address the 100's of Rioting Anti-USA Radical Group Leadership crimes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/06/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Is how Trump's FBI was quick to jump on this for the Biden family back in 2020.

Yes, almost as if pre-planned. Perhaps the Bureau has something on Seddon. Be a shame if Ms. Seddon were to be assigned a diplomatic post in Rawanda or Burundi.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2021 7:43 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm not understanding what makes a girl's diary a federal investigative target. Yes, her daddy was in gummint, but he was not yet prexident*. We will know when our republic is healed (if that's still possible) when the Feebs are no longer a private thug squad for elected officials.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2021 8:16 Comments || Top||

#7  And these assholes told us Watergate was the Crime of the Century.

The Russia Hoax.

The slanders against Judge Kavanaugh.

The "systemic police racism" hoax and the unleashing of years of race riots and unholy race wars.

The lies about mythical "insurrectionists," the murder of Ashli Babbittthe ridiculous lies about the natural death of and the comic-opera state funeral for the Capitol Hill officer, and now a gulag for scores of political prisoners in our nation's capital.

Putin's Russia has more freedom and stronger rule of law than the USSA under Magoo and his Ferret Attorney General
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 8:56 Comments || Top||

#8  The FBI can only get stuff done if they are political opponents or they start the crime themselves.

Real crime investigation is no longer something they can do.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Oh the Feds? Yes, they know how to get things done alright.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#10  I would just like topoint out this is the diary with references to Biden showering with his daughter until she was twelve. So no this may be separate deciding to give Joe the clue his time is up, or rather Jill. And it this was rumored before the election in the diary, but no corroboration. Until the fbi did this anyway.
Posted by: Charles || 11/06/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#11  All in the (Perverted Crime) Family.

Magoo's spawn is documented as having hit upon his 14 year-old niece ... see the text messages from Hunter's sister-in-law --- that would be the widow of his dead brother, the woman he began banging not long after the funeral -- the text messages telling this fetid monster to stay the f--k away from her 14 year-old daughter.

And these disgusting freaks have the gall to claim they're restoring "dignity" to the White House
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#12  An excerpt:
Posted by: Hupusolet Smith5796 || 11/06/2021 15:59 Comments || Top||

#13  James O'Keefe's apartment also raided at 6AM by FBI and SDNY DoJ.
Posted by: Hupusolet Smith5796 || 11/06/2021 16:26 Comments || Top||

#14  I don't know if the Diary is true or not. Veritas couldn't authenticate it. I suspect the FBI might have concocted it as a trap for Project Veritas and possibly Trump. Get Veritas to make a big issue of it and/or Trump to comment on it then prove that it is false. When Veritas refused to run with it, but instead attempted to return it, they went for the next big thing - an investigation...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/06/2021 16:37 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ A rather plausible theory there, Crazy. I'd pick that as the front-runner, based on priors about the intel community misbehaviors.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/06/2021 17:00 Comments || Top||

#16  Fishing expedition. They want O'Keefe's master list of inside sources. I'd imagine he's smart enough to keep it somewhere other than at his residence. Now they'll try to get him in the "lying to the FBI" trap.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2021 17:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Iowa Student Asks Turncoat Mike Pence Who Told Him to


An Iowa student asked Turncoat Vice President Mike Pence why he "bucked Trump" and went ahead and certified the clearly fraudulent election results on January 6th.

On Thursday night an Iowa student asked Mike Pence for the name of the person who told him to buck Trump and certify the 2020 election results. That kid just showed more courage than Mike Pence did on January 6th.

Pence did not even have the cojones to push the results back to the states to investigate the election process and results for 10 days.

Pence responded, "James Madison."
Mike Pence cites James Madison justifying his certification of a coupe. Virtually not true"?
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  har har har har
*farts in Taco Bell*
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/06/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Going to be fun watching this a$$hole crash and burn in the primaries for 2024.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2021 10:20 Comments || Top||

#3  He meant to say Ashley Madison
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Madison Avenue more like it.

"If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within."
-James Madison
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/06/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||

#5  "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

Great choice Pence. Really thought this answer out.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/06/2021 12:52 Comments || Top||

#6  "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/06/2021 12:54 Comments || Top||

#7  When Trump chose Pence as his VP i wondered why he was choosing a politician to succeed him and not a 'do-er' like himself.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/06/2021 15:01 Comments || Top||


Climate Activists Are Now Falsely Claiming Manchin Tried to Run Them Over
[TOWNHALL] Radical climate protesters blockaded Sen. Joe Manchin
...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one (okay, two) Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents...
’s car on Thursday and then claimed he tried to run them over in the parking garage."We blockaded Joe Manchin's car and he tried to run us over," states a video posted to @hungry4climatejustice’s TikTok account of the incident."Pass climate change bills!" screamed one of the activists.

"This is Joe Manchin's car slowly pressing into our people protesters," said another.

Several then began shouting "we want to live!" While others could be heard chanting "F*** Joe Manchin."

The effort was part of an attempt by the progressive left to pressure Manchin into supporting the massive reconciliation bill.

The group's Twitter account also shared other videos of them harassing the West Virginia Democrat before the garage incident.

Other progressive accounts picked up on the encounter and the false claim that Manchin was trying to run them over.




Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  I believe Manchin handled the situation well, being stalked from his yacht to his SUV, and extricating himself from the parking garage, showed me calm perseverance. While I am not a Dem, and politics in this situation is not directly on the table, his handling of this situation shows me a the mark of a strong, balanced mindset.
Disagree - But think, if it were you, what would you have done, under pressure, when a mob was after you and or members of your family or staff.
Posted by: Phater Thromble9981 || 11/06/2021 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  So I guess we are not doing the Human Extinction Movement thing anymore.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/06/2021 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  I noticed these antics are never performed in West Virginia.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/06/2021 7:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Charge them like the J6 detainees.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2021 8:39 Comments || Top||

#5  "blockade his car" -- in a normal country with rule of law this would be called assault, a felony deserving prosecution and probably a prison sentence.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Typical passive-aggressive behaviour perfected by weaklings - get in someone's face and if it goes south or fails, then claim you're the victim.

Manchin, in a Maserati, should've lit up the tires (hit the brakes - power burnout) and gave them a smoke show.
Posted by: Raj || 11/06/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#7  It should be legal to run these idiots over.

With additional tax breaks as incentive.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/06/2021 10:43 Comments || Top||

#8  ^-- and then charge them or their surviving families for any damages to the car.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/06/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#9  OT (or maybe not): Why does the People's Representative from West Virginia drive a Maserati?

Could it be, just possibly, related to his daughter's sinecure atop a heavily-regulated pharma company?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm okay if he ran them over. Maybe force the survivors to wash and clean the vehicle afterwards. After all, nobody wants to touch dirty hippy parts.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/06/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm thinking a James Bond Q-like person could rig a lethal force field for the Mas. Hey, I can dream!

If I could drive (buy) a Maserati, I WOULD. A 2021 Maserati is $94K (low end, higher end is ~$150K) and apparently a damned fine car. Less than many cars (and more than many). A vette would be more 'me' though.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/06/2021 13:03 Comments || Top||

#12  The under-chassis flame thrower that was sold for a while in South Africa would work too.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2021 13:07 Comments || Top||

#13  Take a hint kiddies.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2021 13:10 Comments || Top||

#14  I'm thinking the Mach-5 with the saw blades which pop-out the front.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/06/2021 13:53 Comments || Top||

#15  Democrats are satans asshole.
Posted by: newc || 11/06/2021 15:52 Comments || Top||

#16  I want a mine flail on my car. No need to 'push' anyone out of the way.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/06/2021 16:49 Comments || Top||


After Being Humiliated in VA, Democrats Tell the Voters to Kiss-Off
[TOWNHALL] It's Kurt
Glenn Youngkin greatly disappointed Terry McAuliffe
...If you constructed what a political boss looks like, it would be him....
and his North American Man-Boy Lincoln Project (I wish I originated that) pals by winning Virginia, the latter also because Glenn did not live up to his last name. We kid the tiki torch twerps, but that’s only because one of their founders tried to score with young boys.

In any case, smart people would take a step back after the massive repudiation that was last Tuesday in blue bastions like Old Dominion, New Jersey, and various other venues nationwide that have not gotten as much play. But we are dealing with Democrats. It appears that their analysis is that the American people hate what they are doing so they should do more of it harder, and then the American people will love them. We must encourage this innovative strategy.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And in NJ, they just "found" 12,000 more ballots in the state senate leader's race. Whuttasurprise...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/06/2021 8:19 Comments || Top||

#2  ..the container was finally off loaded at Bayonne.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  IMHO, the Dems have been telling voters to fu*k-off for a long time. Recall that Biden let it slip at one of his poorly-attended rallies during the last election "I don't need your vote to win."
Posted by: JonhQC || 11/06/2021 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ I don't need your vote to win."

And the SOB didn't! And he knew he didn't.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#5  I remember Barney Frank complaining about the voters after he won one of his reelection campaigns. These people are miserable pricks.
Posted by: Raj || 11/06/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||


Pelosi forced to abandon Friday vote on immense social spending bill amid resistance from moderates
[FOXBUSINESS] Dems instead plan vote on the infrastructure bill and on the 'rule' for considering the social spending legislation, but that may backfire too
Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  um, Hello?
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/06/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#2  House Passes $550B Infrastructure Bill – 13 Republicans Voted With Democrats
The final registered roll call vote will be [available here], it’s not yet registered. However, at almost midnight the House finally passed the previous $550 billion Senate infrastructure bill.

After a day of backbiting and internal debate among the far-left communist wing and the socialist wing inside the Democrat caucus, Nancy Pelosi was forced to bring the long delayed ordinary infrastructure bill to a vote. 13 republicans supported it. The final vote was 228/206.

This bill has a long backstory {SEE HERE}, as it was originally going to be connected to a massive Build Back Better social spending bill demanded by the communists in the House. However, after months of attempts to structure some way to get two bills out of the House, one of them insanely over-the-top with social spending, eventually the communists were forced to let the original Senate bill come up for a stand alone vote.

With the Democrats needing a win, any win, to show they are capable of doing something…. they put this bill to a vote. The future of their communist social spending bill is unknown.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/06/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  So the GOP made this possible.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/06/2021 15:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Via Jack Posobiec. GOP Reps who voted for it.
Katko
Van Drew
Upton
Young
Kinzinger
Gonzolaz
Smith
Fitzpatrick
Reed
Garbarino
Malliatokis
Bacon
Posted by: Hupusolet Smith5796 || 11/06/2021 16:40 Comments || Top||


Josh Hawley: Milley, Austin need to prepare US troops for real wars, not culture wars
[FOXNEWS] U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, reacted Thursday night on "The Ingraham Angle" to news that U.S. troops had been badly beaten by their British counterparts while both groups underwent a training exercise in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.

Hawley suggested the incident exemplified misplaced priorities in the U.S. military under the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
— and worried that China might draw some conclusions about U.S. war readiness.

U.S. SEN. JOSH HAWLEY, R-MO.: They’re [China] probably wondering why it is that people like General Milley and Secretary Austin spend so much time recommending books on White rage, on Critical Race Theory

...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense...
and are not more focused on war-fighting.

Here’s my view .... We’ve got the best soldiers, airmen, Marines in the entire world. Our soldiers are amazing war fighters. Let them fight. Train them to fight. Let them do what they do best — and stop using the military as a giant social experiment, which is what the left seems to want.
Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From this date forward, please consider Josh Hawley as a potential candidate for Vice President of the United States in 2024.

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

stop using the military as a giant social experiment


We have a volunteer military, our American Citizens (and a limited number of foreign nationals) having stepped forward, to defend this Nation in times of War & Peace, deserve being treated with Respect, not Lab Animals, in a Giant Medical, Social, or Cultural Experiment under the egregious edicts of the clearly progressive, Socialist government masked as "Democrats" of the 20th Century Tradition.

May the Republic withstand the assaults' of this false government. Amen
Posted by: Phater Thromble9981 || 11/06/2021 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ .....deserve being treated with Respect, not Lab Animals, in a Giant Medical, Social, or Cultural Experiment under the egregious edicts of the clearly progressive,

We are all now 'lab animals' and human tissue/organ donors. Geo Orwell would be astounded.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/06/2021 3:15 Comments || Top||


#4  milley vanilley?
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 11/06/2021 13:54 Comments || Top||

#5  But now the US Marines say that 'winners' are never determined and the training exercises, which do not provide an opportunity to 'surrender,' 'keep score,' or 'reset', are merely intended to 'heighten unit performance and increase readiness'.

Participation Ribbons all around! Rear Admiral Xer - hand out....the Challenge Coins!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/06/2021 18:27 Comments || Top||

#6  The primary mission of the armed forces is to protect the security of the homeland. What's happening on the southern border says you have failed.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/06/2021 21:49 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Ichnusa || 11/06/2021 23:18 Comments || Top||

#8  The brass are gone. The big question is which way the enlisted men and the Guard will go.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/06/2021 23:45 Comments || Top||


Bill de Blasio's parting Orwellian insult to NYC parents
[NYPOST] "It’s theater at best," state Sen. John Liu says of Team de Blasio’s parent-outreach drive on shutting down Gifted & Talented programs. "But theater is entertaining and not harmful. This evokes the worst portrayals of Orwellian government."

Right, and that’s not even the worst of it.

Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
nixed all current G&T programs last month, effective next year, without even seeking parents’ input — claiming the Department of Education would do that afterward.

Crucially, Mayor-elect Eric Adams
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
has given every sign he’ll veto the move, rightly saying the answer is more G&T, not less. Yet the DOE is moving ahead with its version of "outreach," which consists of Zoom meetings where parents can’t get a word in as ideologues simply lecture.

"They pretend to get viewpoints, but in the end it’s all predetermined to support the DOE’s proposal," Chien Kwok of Community Education Council 2 in Manhattan told The Post.

In at least one "meeting," pro-G&T parents found they literally couldn’t speak, as the DOE disabled their chat function.

Lecturing parents under the pretext of listening to them so you can push a disastrous progressive "reform" that isn’t going to happen is an insulting waste of everyone’s time and money: What a perfect parting reminder of everything New York has come to despise about this mayor.
Posted by: Fred || 11/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's an awful lot for Eric Adams to undo. I hope he's up to it.
Posted by: Tom || 11/06/2021 11:13 Comments || Top||



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