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Foreigners among 68 militants killed, wounded in Afghan, U.S. forces operations
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Home Front: Politix
Alexandria Today
h/t Instapundit
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent out a fundraising email Wednesday that is rife with hateful rhetoric and blatant falsehoods.

"Six days from now, we can defeat the brutal white supremacist forces of anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant nativism, and racism," Ocasio-Cortez starts the email. "We can hold accountable the cold-hearted monsters who have repeatedly attacked our health care. We can send a message to the bigots and billionaires that this country belongs to all of us. We can win if we show up on November 6. We must end Republican control of Congress and begin to reclaim our nation."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/02/2018 09:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not your health care unless you pay for it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/02/2018 10:32 Comments || Top||

#2  C'mon! This is the Onion or Babylon Bee, right? This is completely unhinged!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/02/2018 11:53 Comments || Top||


Missouri Farmers Take Aim at McCaskill in Final Days of Campaign
[Free Beacon] Over 100 Missouri farmers signed their names in support of an ad released Tuesday that targets Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) for policies they say harm Missouri agriculture and its workers.

The Missouri Republican Party launched the radio ad, titled, "Hogwash," highlighting how McCaskill "sells" farmers out for Washington, D.C. liberals and lobbyists.

"Our way of life is under attack by D.C. liberals and lobbyists, and McCaskill's been with them every step of the way," the ad narrator says. "She cozies up with environmental extremists who want to put Missouri farms out of business. She voted for WOTUS to give the government more control of our private land. And worse, McCaskill voted to raise the death tax."

"A vote for Claire McCaskill is a vote for Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, and it's a vote against President Trump and Missouri farmers. Claire McCaskill is one of us? That's hogwash," the narrator continues.

The ad follows McCaskill saying in October that she didn't care about losing votes in Missouri's "bootheel," the rural southeastern tip of the state. "If we do our job in St. Louis County, you know, I can give up a few votes in the bootheel," McCaskill said.

The 107 Missouri farmers who signed in support of the ad include Blake Hurst, the president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, and Neal Bredehoeft, the former president of the American Soybean Association.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Project Veritas video can be seen at the link, all twenty-four minutes of it. Grab a cup of coffee, or the equivalent, and enjoy the schadenfreude.
  • "I just hope nobody that’s the wrong person finds out about this."

  • "It’s f***ing happening." O’Rourke Campaign Staff Uses Pre-Paid Cards for Honduran Alien Supplies

  • "Don’t ever repeat this..." Campaign Staffers Explain How to Hide Campaign Expenditures for Aliens

  • "If you get caught in some sort of violation that’s like a $50,000 fine," "For me I can just ignore the rules and I’m like f**k it."

  • Transporting Aliens to "airports... bus stations," "None of this is like sh*t there is a rulebook for"

  • Staffer Says She Sent Confirming Texts to Director

(Austin) Project Veritas Action Fund has released undercover video from current Congressman and US Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke’s campaign. The video exposes how his campaign staff appear to be illegally using campaign resources to buy supplies and help transport Honduran aliens. This is the eighth undercover video report Project Veritas has released in a series revealing secrets and lies from political campaigns in 2018.
Posted by: Oscar Angeger2751 || 11/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Democrats are funding the illegal alien caravan? I'm shocked-- SHOCKED, I tell you!
Posted by: Dave D. || 11/02/2018 6:53 Comments || Top||

#2  They need to be jailed for the rest of their natural lives.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/02/2018 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Are their lives natural?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/02/2018 9:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Barely.

However in prison I could see them all after a year coming down with a fatal case of the shiv.

So a natural end to their barely natural lives.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/02/2018 9:30 Comments || Top||

#5  OK, when will the Federal Election Commission investigate this illegal diversion of money and resources to foreign beneficiaries from the campaign fund?

Mueller? Mueller? /Bueller
Posted by: Boss Spoper5850 || 11/02/2018 9:56 Comments || Top||


Oprah Invokes Lynching, Oppression in Campaign Speech for Stacey Abrams
[Breitbart] In a Thursday speech in the Republican-leaning suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, Oprah Winfrey urged voters to make history by backing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in next week’s election, saying she refuses to allow the sacrifices of those who were "lynched" and "oppressed" to be "in vain."

Abrams is locked in a tight race with her Republican rival, Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp, as she tries to become the nation’s first black female governor.

Oprah Winfrey praised Abrams as a "change-maker" who represents the values of all Georgians. The talk show icon, who rarely makes political endorsements, drew cheers when she said she’s a registered independent who was not in Georgia at anyone’s request.

In other news unrelated to lynching, but seldom discussed: ABC 7 Eyewitness News - 259 shot, 47 fatally, in Chicago during October
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

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Oprah Winfrey urged voters to make history by backing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in next week’s election, saying she refuses to allow the sacrifices of those who were "lynched" and "oppressed" to be "in vain."

...and never mind that inconvenient little detail that it was the Democrats (and their KKK brownshirts) who did the lynching and oppressing.
Posted by: Dave D. || 11/02/2018 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Oprah, you are worse than the KKK. They were honest about being worthless subhuman vermin at least. You are just showing the whip to keep your own people on the slave masters plantation.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/02/2018 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Eat a bag of dicks, Oprah.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/02/2018 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  she tries to become the nation’s first black female governor

The time when persons judged by the content of their character - not the color of their skin, are not here yet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/02/2018 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Before she flew back to spend time on Geffen's yacht...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/02/2018 10:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Lynchings? That tends to be a Democrat thing. Oprah, does Justice Thomas, Herman Cain, and Justice Kavanaugh count as lynchings or attempted lynchings?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/02/2018 10:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Supposedly, Oprah has "temporarily" stepped down from her job at CBS's 60 Minutes. But I'm sure she'll be back. I think we can therefore assume that 60 Minutes in particular, and CBS in general, is about as objective and impartial in their news reporting as George Stephanopoulos at ABC, which is about as objective and impartial as Hillary Clinton, every bit as objective and impartial as Stacey Abrams. In other words, CBS is nothing more than a propaganda outlet for the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/02/2018 10:42 Comments || Top||

#8  At least they're not 'gonna put y'all back in chains'.
Posted by: Raj || 11/02/2018 13:11 Comments || Top||

#9  According to Wiki, the last lynching of a black man was 1918. Two others were killed in 1915, method not described,but implied.
Doesn't seem to be a problem for the 100 years or so....
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/02/2018 17:27 Comments || Top||

#10  Psssst - Clarence Thomas - unsuccessfully
Posted by: Frank G || 11/02/2018 20:15 Comments || Top||


Watch This Amazing Ad From NY Dem Rejecting Schumer's Plea For Money
[DailyMail] In an amazing ad, New York Democratic state assemblyman Dov Hikind, an orthodox Jew, shows himself being inundated with letters from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asking him for a donation, and finally cuts loose with the manifold reasons he would never support the Democratic Party, erupting, "Dear Senator Schumer: Today’s Democratic Party does not deserve our support!"

The ad begins with Hikind arriving at his home, and finding a letter on his doorstep. The camera zooms in on the envelope, showing it with Schumer’s return address. An animated cloud appears on the screen with the caption inside it reading, "Give money to the Democrats?"

A clock appears on the screen with its hands moving furiously to indicate the passage of time; then Hikind arrives home again to pick up another letter on his doorstep. As he opens it, the cloud reappears, this time saying, "Again, Senator?!" The camera focuses on the text of the letter, which reads, "Senate Majority 2018 exists to run independent, take-no-prisoners campaign and fight back against the right-wing fundraising machine." Hikind shrugs, then enters his home.

Back to the furiously moving clock: Hikind arrives home after being dropped off there; he picks up a third letter deposited on his doorstep, perusing the envelope as the cloud appears; this time the cloud reads, "He’s got to be kidding!"

The clock runs again; this time Hikind is seated in his dining room studying a Jewish text when his wife comes through the front door, holding yet another envelope from Schumer.
And then the fun begins.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are Jews actually coming to their senses?
Posted by: Slolutle Cloluse3142 || 11/02/2018 5:16 Comments || Top||

#2  This is what really 'woke' means, not the indoctrination industry's use of the word. Welcome outside the cave Mr. Hikind.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/02/2018 6:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Terrific!
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/02/2018 10:33 Comments || Top||


North Dakota Democrats Promote Message Telling Hunters They May Lose Their Licenses if They Vote
[SayAnythingBlog] Sending out mailers backing a conservative independent candidate in the Secretary of State race isn't the only way in which North Dakota Democrats are trying to mislead voters.

A reader alerted me to this curious message on Facebook which tells voters they may lose their hunting licenses in other states if they vote:
If the difference is big enough, it doesn’t matter if they cheat. Get out and vote, and make the difference big enough.
Posted by: Oscar Angeger2751 || 11/02/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is likely to backfire. hunters are a lot smarter than they think (1). They will just get pissed off and be sure to vote.

(1) I mean how much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a head of lettuce at the local whole foods?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/02/2018 10:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Lettuce heads are stupid as dirt, ‘tis true. Oh but kale — kale is a different story altogether.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/02/2018 13:14 Comments || Top||

#3  A shtetl, the Pale. A discussion:
The cleverest kale, was it Prussian?
A head like a cabbage!
Or Polish? Too savage.
The answer was, sadly, Red Russian.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/02/2018 14:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Year by year the regulations involving hunting and the transporting of weapons get more complex -and- they think people having to deal with this are simple, backwoods hicks? This was thought of by some "city kid" sitting in front of a computer in their parent's basement...
Posted by: magpie || 11/02/2018 15:07 Comments || Top||

#5  That is the democrat way...hassle the law abiding citizen with stupid laws, and ignore the criminals because the 'crats are unable or unwilling to deal with criminals.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/02/2018 15:43 Comments || Top||

#6  The answer was, sadly, Red Russian.

Civil, well-reasoned discourse, news of the WOT and varietal vegetables - it's why we come to the 'Burg.

As for pissing off the hunters, bad idea! Not because they have guns, but because they are dedicated, determined and used to acting as a group to go up against stupid laws affecting their sport.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/02/2018 16:51 Comments || Top||



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