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$1.7 trillion government funding package flown to St. Croix for Biden signature
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Ray Epps denied working for the FBI during Capitol Riot - telling Jan 6 committee that bizarre right-wing conspiracies about him being an 'informant' forced his wife to move out, and destroyed his business
[Daily Mail, where America get its news]
  • Fringe far-right media and lawmakers claim Ray Epps was working with the FBI

  • Said he instigated the Capitol riot on January 6 to make Trump look bad

  • Epps denies that he was working or even in communication with the FBI

  • Claims the conspiracy has led to death threats and forced his wife to move out
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2022 08:11 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  With the dozens of fotos and video of Ray Epps activities that day, he's not on any of these lists? Very lucky man that Ray Epps.

[sarc off]

  • More than 290 defendants have been charged with corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding, or attempting to do so.

  • Approximately 50 defendants have been charged with conspiracy, either: (a) conspiracy to obstruct a congressional proceeding, (b) conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement during a civil disorder, (c) conspiracy to injure an officer, or (d) some combination of the three.

    US DA, District of Columbia Link
  • Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||

    #2  Not working for the FBI? So he was freelancing? working for NSA? or some other group? Or is this just a lie?
    Posted by: ruprecht || 12/30/2022 9:12 Comments || Top||

    #3  Association of his name with the FBI "ruined his life."

    How sad...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2022 9:27 Comments || Top||

    #4  they ALWAYS throw each other under the bus
    Posted by: 746 || 12/30/2022 10:12 Comments || Top||

    #5  He was working directly for the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. There are a number of direct calls from his cell phone to the Speaker's Office.

    He may not of been working directly for the FBI - but he *was* working under Nancy Pelosi.

    Take all the Jan 6th Committee accusations and replace 'Donald Trump' with 'Nancy Pelosi' and you would be closer to the truth.
    Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/30/2022 11:49 Comments || Top||

    #6  People just naturally attempt to find ways to explain bizarre behavior so if they come up with bizarre conspiracy theories then Epps shouldn't be surprised.

    Some of those videos sure look to my untrained eye like Epps was inciting a riot. Or maybe he was just urging others to break the law which could perhaps be classified as a conspiracy in itself.

    But then the FBI never charged him...all the while charging all kinds of other people...which is truly bizarre.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/30/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||

    #7  I can't really say that I'm all that sympathetic about his wife and his business. If he never goes to jail he should at least be in the same class with Monica Lewinski.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/30/2022 12:33 Comments || Top||

    #8  He lives in a 6 foot diameter magic globe where free speech rights and the right to assembly are sacrosanct. Everybody that listened to him, not so much.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/30/2022 12:38 Comments || Top||

    #9  If his business is ‘stooge enticement and entrapment INC’ then I am fine with him going out of business. One of the Jan 6ers might get out of jail someday and may want to talk with Ray
    Posted by: Airandee || 12/30/2022 15:06 Comments || Top||

    #10  Late in the day, just thought I'd throw this in as I finished reading it. The application, going beyond the opera, or modern canned teevee laughter. You decide:

    Organizing under the title L'Assurance des Success Dramatiques, they leased themselves and their employees to singeers and opera managers who wished to be assured of an appreciative audience response. So effective were they in stimulating genuine audience reaction with their rigged reactions that before long claques (usually consisting of a leader - chef de claque - and several individual claqueurs) had become an established and persistent tradition throughout the world of opera. As music historian Robert Sabin notes, "By 1830 the claque was a full-blown institution, collecting by day, applauding by night, all in the honest open....But it is altogether probable that neither Sauton, or his ally Porcher, had a notion of the extent to which their scheme of paid applause would be adopted and applied wherever opera was sung."

    Robert B. Cialdini, PH.D., 'Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion.' page 158.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2022 17:36 Comments || Top||

    #11  Maybe Epps just knew what to do - no instructions needed to get maximum effect.
    Posted by: KBK || 12/30/2022 23:02 Comments || Top||


    -Land of the Free
    Department Of Homeland Security Can't Even Secure Its Buildings Against People It Fired
    [TheIntercept] FOR THE FOURTH time since 2007, an internal audit shows the Department of Homeland Security isn’t deactivating access cards in the hands of ex-employees, leaving its secure facilities vulnerable to intruders.

    A new report by Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General shows that the department is systemically failing to revoke tens of thousands of "personal identity verification" cards that allow staff to enter sensitive, secure facilities and access internal data networks, despite being warned about the problem for 15 years. The issue is made worse, the report continues, by the fact that Homeland Security’s internal record-keeping is so shoddy that it was impossible to determine how many ex-staffers have working access cards they aren’t supposed to.

    Like many modern office workers, Homeland Security hands out office-unlocking keycards to its employees to make sure strangers can’t wander in off the street. And, like most workplaces, the department is supposed to follow a standard policy: When an employee is no longer an employee, for whatever reason, their card is to be promptly deactivated.

    Unlike most employers, though, Homeland Security is a component of the U.S. Intelligence Community, meaning these credit card-sized badges have a "grave potential for misuse if lost, stolen, or compromised," according to the inspector general report. Unfortunately for the department — and potentially the homeland — the OIG’s latest audit found that’s exactly what’s happening, and on a vast scale.

    "DHS has not prioritized ensuring that PIV cards are terminated when individuals no longer require access," the report says. "Without effective PIV card and security clearance management and monitoring, DHS cannot ensure only authorized individuals have access to its controlled electronic systems and facilities."
    Posted by: DarthVader || 12/30/2022 07:59 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  I would compare DHS to the Keystone Cops, but they were funny and DHS is pathetic.
    Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 12/30/2022 8:54 Comments || Top||

    #2  We existed for more than two centuries without them. Let’s try again to forage on without their valuable contributions to our republic.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/30/2022 11:01 Comments || Top||

    #3  Did they fire any bombers?
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2022 22:23 Comments || Top||


    Government Corruption
    FDA's approval of controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm was 'rife with irregularities', bombshell House investigation finds ‐ as it slams 'unjustifiably high' $56,000 price tag
    [Daily Mail, where America get its news]
    Posted by: Skidmark || 12/30/2022 07:55 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Maybe we should go back to just have them label stuff.
    Posted by: Super Hose || 12/30/2022 11:02 Comments || Top||


    So how do WE THE PEOPLE legally enforce their Oath of Office?
    The President and Vice President of the United States, members of Congress, every Federal Judge, the Supreme Court Justices, even Federal Appointees /Federal employees take or sign and Oath.

    Since Political Party CYA is ramped and political revenge is openly used and abused

    Since elections take years and are proven to be no longer trusted in certain state areas.

    So how do WE THE PEOPLE legally enforce their Oath of Office?
    Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/30/2022 06:42 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

    #1  Prosecute them for perjury? Oh, that's right, you'd have to have an honest AG for that.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/30/2022 12:43 Comments || Top||

    #2  We can't, and they know it.

    That "legally" thingie is the conundrum.

    The Military is the only way out of this, and good luck with that.
    Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/30/2022 14:23 Comments || Top||

    #3  In the short term - massive, peaceful, civil demostrations, perhaps akin to the Canadian trucker shut-down of the 495 beltway. Washington must feel the true level of angst we feel about the future and their miserable record of governance.

    Intermediate term - election reform, Voter ID, and ballots issued at the polling place on the day of the election. No ballot harvesting or curing allowed, and carefully supervised, validated not-in-person voting for only those genuinely incapable of same-day voting. The people must have renewed confidence in the honesty of our elections!

    Longer term, re-introduce civics and honest, non-partisan history to the educational systems to create informed voters with a basic grasp of our constitutional republic's unique structure and genius.

    Longer term - The power the Constitution gives to the States to call for and conduct an Article V Convention. The form of redress it can create and codify must give the States the power to remove corrupt and illegitimate elected officials, and impound tax revenue when deemed necessary. Washington cannot be trusted to self-regulate in perpetuity, the corruption will always reappear over time.
    Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/30/2022 14:42 Comments || Top||

    #4  It's groovy that the States [supposedly] have this power. But sometimes you get what you ask for. Imagine living in a world with Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, or Kathy Hochul. Good fooking gawd.
    Posted by: DooDahMan || 12/30/2022 18:00 Comments || Top||

    #5  In Russia and Russians around the world fall down stairs and step out windows…. And others start to change their behavior
    Posted by: Airandee || 12/30/2022 19:25 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Politix
    $1.7 trillion government funding package flown to St. Croix for Biden signature
    [Hill] President Biden on Thursday signed the sprawling $1.7 trillion spending package to fund the government into next fall, wrapping up a year of several bipartisan legislative accomplishments for the president.

    The president signed the package in St. Croix, where he is spending the New Year’s holiday with his family. The White House received the bill from Congress late afternoon on Wednesday, according to the White House, and the bill was brought to the U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday.

    The House passed the measure on Dec. 23, one day after the Senate approved it with a large bipartisan majority, 68-29. The House passed it largely along party lines in a 225-201-1 vote.

    Biden last week signed a stopgap measure that Congress had passed to keep the government open past an earlier Dec. 23 deadline. The short-term bill, which moved the deadline to Dec. 30, was intended to allow time for the more than 4,000-page omnibus to make its way to Biden’s desk for his signature.
    Reportedly arrived on....private plane. Where is Hunter ?
    The massive package includes $45 billion in military and economic aid for Ukraine and $38 billion for emergency disaster assistance. It also includes reforms to the Electoral Count Act in response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, clarifying that the vice president does not have the power to unilaterally overturn the results of a presidential election.

    Biden hailed those provisions and others in a statement following the passage last week. He noted the package also includes funding for cancer research, to hire more police officers and for the Violence Against Women Act. He further touted its funding for the PACT Act, which he signed into law in August to expand health benefits to veterans exposed to toxic substances.

    The Times of Israel has more of the details in the 4000+ page bill.
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Just think what would have happened had they used Southwest.
    Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 12/30/2022 2:57 Comments || Top||

    #2  Ice cream delivery ?
    Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2022 6:10 Comments || Top||


    #4  Remember. Courts routinely force men to continue paying child support even after they have DNA proved they are not the father. But this will be fought tooth and nail and portrayed in leftist media as a "womens' issue."
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2022 7:59 Comments || Top||

    #5  Ten percent for the big guy?
    Posted by: Uleang Thusosh7326 || 12/30/2022 8:40 Comments || Top||

    #6  4,000-page

    Most likely kill any printer(s) attempting to run the pdf. Is there even 4000 sheets in St.Croix?
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/30/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

    #7  Hunter's ex-stripper baby mama asks Arkansas court to change their daughter's surname to Biden so the four-year-old can 'benefit from carrying the family name' that is now 'synonymous with being successful'

    Be careful what you ask for, mama.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/30/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

    #8  ....'synonymous with being successful bribe-able'

    FIFY
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/30/2022 16:04 Comments || Top||

    #9  I am just so sick of this year.
    Posted by: Bobby || 12/30/2022 17:19 Comments || Top||



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