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Susan Rice: Obama Put Call Transcripts On Top Secret Server, Too
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
You've ruined my childhood
[PJMedia]
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 01:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who considers a 16 year old a child?
Posted by: Spanky Whuter1088 || 09/29/2019 1:51 Comments || Top||

#2  her death metal
Posted by: newc || 09/29/2019 1:55 Comments || Top||

#3  For purposes of "child gun death" statistics, the Billy Jeff Clinton administration counted 25 year old gang bangers as children.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/29/2019 5:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Dear Sweden, you're doing this to us because some of us liked ABBA?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2019 8:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Hey Pippi, you're trying to ruin my adulthood.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/29/2019 8:35 Comments || Top||

#6  She's trying to ruin my dotage.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 10:48 Comments || Top||

#7  She ruined my breakfast.
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 11:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Did anybody actually clicked the link? Because there's a picture worth a 1000 word where.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 11:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Make that "death mental"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/29/2019 16:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Susan Rice: Obama Put Call Transcripts On Top Secret Server, Too
Oh. Never mind — what’s the next Orange Man Bad panic?
[Federalist] Former national security adviser Susan Rice acknowledged last night that the B.O. regime moved transcripts of conversations with foreign leaders onto the same top-secret server where the Trump administration stored his recent phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"This is different, though, because shut up"
Appearing at the Texas Tribune Festival, Rice was asked how often this practice was engaged in during the B.O. regime, but did not answer that question, saying instead, "We never moved them over unless they were legitimately, in the contents classified." Rice did not explain what standard the B.O. regime used to determine what was legitimately classified. She said it is rare, although not impossible, that a presidential conversation could be classified to that highest level.

The revelation from Rice comes amid media reports and comments from politicians that have painted the use of this top secret server as proof that Trump was trying to cover up the contents of his conversation with the Ukrainian leader, a full transcript of which the administration has now released to the public.

But reporting from ABC News shows that this practice of securing presidential phone transcripts has been in use in the White House since early 2017, after sensitive conversations with foreign leaders were leaked to the press.

From ABC News: "The two calls in early 2017, with leaders from Australia and from Mexico, leaked early in Trump’s administration, and sources said the procedure to store them quickly changed ‐ many calls between the president and world leaders instead were stored in a secure server to avoid leaks. The sources who talked to ABC News did caution that it’s unclear if the calls being stored were done so for national security or for political concerns."

One source cited by ABC News described the practice as "basically standard operating procedure."

So from Rice we now know the decision to store the conversation on the top-secret server was not unprecedented, but a decision that Obama’s administration made multiple times as well, using its own discretion, just as the Trump administration has. And from ABC News’ reporting we know that this has been a long-standing practice in the Trump White House to protect against a high level of leaks.

Both of these revelations undermine the theory that in this specific case, some unique and bizarre method was used to hide the transcript and engage in a cover up. Rather, the Trump administration appears to have been engaging in business as usual.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2019 12:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hmmmm. Coming over ahead of the tsunami?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/29/2019 17:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes but that was in the past and it wasnt the orange man who did it...

See how When 0bama used Facebook it was OK, but when Cambridge Analytical was used it was bad, although they did identical things.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/29/2019 17:34 Comments || Top||


Ukraine must investigate Joe Biden's son, says ex-Ukrainian PM
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 01:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I've just had an idea - that if Joe is not an idiot? I know it's radical, but consider the following hypothesis.
The Ukrainian government started an investigation of their predecessors' corruption (not for ethical reasons necessarily). And they need USA cooperation, because corruption they're investigating involved Obama admin/mandarinate extensive participation. Clever Joe enters 2020 POTUS race - even though he knows that with the economy, Democratic challenge to Trump is unrealistic. And immediately becomes immune - every single Democrat/jurnoscrote/bureaucrat/activist judge in USA (from the lowliest DMV clerk to Nancy Pelosi & Ruth Bader Meinhof Ginsburg) immediately becomes Joe's staunch defender.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 5:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice. For some reason, The Thirty-Nine Steps campaign speech scene springs to mind.
Posted by: Chesney Snore8507 || 09/29/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Mykola Azarov has Putin's arm stuffed up his keister and tickling his tonsils. He and Yanukovich got in the PM and Presidency by Putin financed ballot box stuffing in the east Ukraine.

They then turned the entire government into one giant bribe machine that further impoverished Ukraine. The Orange Revolution overthrew them and they both fled to Moscow. Putin, with the Ukrainian putsch blowing up in his face, then invaded Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
Posted by: Grutch Cheting3238 || 09/29/2019 16:59 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ nice reminder
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2019 17:15 Comments || Top||


Graham coordinates with Jared to save Trump from new wave of attack
[PRESSTV] US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems...
is engaging in an attempt to defend President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
amid the Ukraine scandal.

The South Carolina senator, who played golf with Trump at the president’s club in Sterling, Virginia, on Saturday morning, rejected allegations that Trump acted against national security interests by pushing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate political rival Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
before enjoying the US military aid.

"In America you can’t even get a parking ticket based on hearsay testimony," tweeted Graham, once a Trump critic. "But you can impeach a president? I certainly hope not."

The Republican was reportedly heard on a JetBlue flight from Washington, DC, to Charleston, South Carolina, apparently coordinating his defense initiative with Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.

"His phone rang and he answered, ’Hey, Jared!’ He was . . . saying he’s going to be on ’Face the Nation’ on Sunday. He said, ’Listen ‐ this is what I’m going to lay out,’ " according to the report. "He was like, ’We need to know why Hunter [Biden] was receiving $50K’ " for being on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma. "He then said, ’You can’t impeach someone on hearsay.’ He was laying out his story for Sunday."
So... ummm... this story is based on hearsay?
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, I thought DJTs chances were good until I heard Jared was involved
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/29/2019 12:01 Comments || Top||


Democrats have sought to #impeach #Trump since he entered office: Analyst
[TWITTER] Democrats in the US Congress have sought to impeach President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
since he entered the White House in January 2017, says an American political analyst in Virginia.

"As far as the issue of impeachment, the Democrats have been looking a for any number of things that they can potentially use to impeach the president, almost as soon as he took office," said Keith Preston, chief editor of AttacktheSystem.com.

"It’s not like this is anything new on the Democrats part; this is just the latest in a series of efforts Democrats have made to try to impeach the president," Preston told Press TV.

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday launched an official impeachment investigation of Trump after he encouraged a foreign leader to conduct a probe that could damage a political rival.

House 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...
, a Democrat, announced the investigation at a news conference, declaring "no one is above the law."
Picked right up on that, didn't he? And it's only been three years!
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I've always wondered, what do Democrats think of Mike Pence - working so hard to make him POTUS?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  It looks like the Democrats have decided to revive Michael Avennati's bid to be their candidate in 2020. He seems like a thoroughly bad guy, who is much saner than the other candidates, Thus in both respects a perfect candidate.
He is a bit zany though.
Posted by: Daniel || 09/29/2019 3:54 Comments || Top||

#3  I've always wondered, what do Democrats think of Mike Pence - working so hard to make him POTUS?

Heh. I really don't think they have thought that far ahead. Also, according the the Constitution on their planet, if Trump is impeached, Hillary automagically becomes President. Orange Man bad!
Posted by: SteveS || 09/29/2019 6:47 Comments || Top||

#4  That's the number one plank in their platform.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/29/2019 11:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Conspirators did something like that in 44BC. Didn't turn out well for either the target of their wrath or for the conspirators. Remember the Left has no history to constrain their emotions and lust of power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2019 11:16 Comments || Top||

#6  A classic example of overestimating your enemies "No one can benefit by removing me" - right. Implied assumption "they understand this" - wrong.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 11:20 Comments || Top||


Polls show support growing in #US for #Trump’s removal from office
[TWITTER] If you can't trust Iran Press TV, who can you trust?

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you can't trust Iran Press TV, who can you trust?

CNN?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 1:03 Comments || Top||

#2  No. Fake news. Not what I'm hearing. Washington post rag is running this to death and papers are not selling. Same with AP who emails stories to be printed in main papers. Total disconnect with America.
Posted by: Dale || 09/29/2019 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Complete BS.
This is a fake scandal following on the collapse of two hoaxes, Russiagate and Lucy Ramirez's non-accusation of Kavanaugh.
Dems have cried wolf too many times for anyone but their lunatic Trump-hating core to listen any more.

The general sense in the country is that people want to vote and bring this national pissfest to a conclusion. Impeachment prolongs the pissfest and does an end-run around the electoral process.

No way that any more than 50% of the public will support it.
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 11:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Polls, huh? They never asked my opinion, not that I'd give it to them. But that's kinda my point.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/29/2019 14:45 Comments || Top||

#5  There's only one poll that matters and that'll be taken in November of next year. Do you feel lucky, punk?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/29/2019 14:46 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 Polls, huh? They never asked my opinion, not that I'd give it to them. But that's kinda my point.

Exactly. The polls underestimate Trump's true support by at least 6-7 points. That corresponds to those supporters of his who are surrounded by deep-blue left-lib Kool-Aid drinkers, who now infest the corporate world and the federal bureaucracy in addition to their usual haunts.

It is impossible for anyone in the corporate world or state/federal bureaucracies to voice an opinion that is even remotely positive about anything Trump has done without risking career-ending retaliation.

We are living in a Soviet-lite system. No gujags, but the threat of social erasure and career extinction.

Given this climate of fear, why would anyone reveal - even to a pollster's call center dialers - his true political opinions? Data leaks are everywhere. Why risk having one's name entered into a database along with the label, "Supports Trump"?

Clearly there are at least 5-7 million such people in this country who will never take such a risk. But who will vote against the anti-Trump insanity come next November.
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 16:34 Comments || Top||

#7  The network news reporting on the Ukraine deal has been very dishonest. This doesn't surprise me, but it's unreal. As more people hear the real trasncripts they'll know it's nothing against Trump and possibly very damaging to Biden and Hillary.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/29/2019 18:22 Comments || Top||

#8  It is impossible for anyone in the corporate world or state/federal bureaucracies to voice an opinion that is even remotely positive about anything Trump has done without risking career-ending retaliation.

Yes. In the music world as well, which is where I find myself in a small way now that Mr. Wife has gotten involved in the Blues and Folk worlds. There are many times I am careful about what I say, or say nothing at all. But I’ve been finding it fascinating how often someone will quietly say something pro-Trump or anti-liberal to me, completely unsolicited, which has led to some fascinating conversations on the sidelines.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2019 20:52 Comments || Top||

#9  This is a not uncommon syndrome in US politics: educated people say one thing publicly regarding their intentions and then behave an entirely different way in the privacy of the voting booth.

The degree of disconnect between surface and reality is directly proportional to the degree and severity of retaliation, denunciation, or persecution expected.

Today that fear is off the charts high. I've never seen anything like it in this country.

Maybe it was experienced by some lefties in Hollywood in the McCarthy era, but never have we seen such a generalized state of fear experienced by tens of millions of people across the entire country. This is new.

Because it's so new, our polling methods are completely inadequate to understand and capture it.

The polls are useless. Trump's support is far deeper and more solid than our media screamers and polling "experts" pretend.
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 23:20 Comments || Top||


NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Blasts Impeachment Push, Blames Leftists
[THEFEDERALIST] On Wednesday evening at an event on "political civility" with ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, New York Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo offered a sharp rebuke of the Democrats’ latest cries for impeachment, blaming "leftist" Democrats for forcing Congress to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

Cuomo, a Democrat himself, felt the "quote unquote inquiry" was a result of Democratic Lions of Islam in Congress pushing House 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., to engage in an ultimately pointless exercise that would just result in political gridlock. According to Cuomo, "There is a heightened leftist component of the Democratic Party that she was feeling pressure from."

Cuomo also provided a lengthy catalog of the legislative priorities that would be shoved aside until after the 2020 elections as a result of the futile impeachment process taking front and center.

"It’s a long and unproductive road," emphasized Cuomo. "Where does it go ultimately? Nowhere."

Cuomo’s assessment isn’t totally wrong, but he’s not exactly right either. According to latest Marist polling, only 49 percent of polled adults nationally approve the House’s formal launch of an impeachment inquiry. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
88 percent of Democrats polled support the impeachment inquiry, with support jumping to 93 percent among progressives. Therefore, while it is clear impeachment is quite popular among progressives, it’s likely inaccurate to say the popularity of the impeachment inquiry is limited to the far-left. If anything, it seems the impeachment inquiry, though likely to be a show trial with no removal at the end, is a fan favorite among the Democrats.

Cuomo’s speech reveals the governor’s unawareness of the far-left’s takeover of the Democratic establishment.

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Theater. Or more like politics as therapy.
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 6:30 Comments || Top||

#2  The end result of this mess will be a lot of people wondering "Does politics cause psychosis? Does psychosis cause politics?" Could lead to some interesting shifts in voting patterns. Of course, the easy solution is to take most authority away from politicians.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/29/2019 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Cuomo is advising them not to show their hand so soon. That hand being a one party system. The California governor isn't as nuanced.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||

#4  well, I'm going to take it at face value and be pleasantly surprised....
Posted by: Hupuling Sforza8933 || 09/29/2019 8:18 Comments || Top||

#5  "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo!"
Posted by: Raj || 09/29/2019 9:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Pre-Trump there was one brand 2 party politics.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/29/2019 11:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Post-Trump there will be a realignment into the Globalist Party and the America First Party.
Guess which one most Americans will support?
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 11:54 Comments || Top||

#8  There are not enough Prius and Tesla to get all the gerbalists to work. Many are unable and / or unwilling to ride a bike from Boston or NYC to the District and back every day. Something will have to give.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/29/2019 16:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Globalists:
- anti-fracking, pro-China
- anti-border patrol, pro open borders, pro-amnesty
- anti-aggressive policing, pro-BLM stunts
- anti-2nd Amendment, anti-free speech

Where, outside of college towns and a half-dozen central cities in the coasts, is there a majority for the above agenda?
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 16:25 Comments || Top||


Hillary, kindly make like a tree
[AMERICANTHINKER] AT's Thomas Lifson reports that Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
is on the way out as a candidate and that Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away...
is ready to step into his shoes, still griping about 2016, still vicious and nasty and still bent on Dire Revenge for slights carried over from the last century.

Handlers have slicked her up and painted over the look of staggering drunken homelessness that Hillary successfully modeled the last three years. It didn't help. All across America, voters are throwing things at their televisions. A run on straight razors is expected.

America doesn't want this woman as president. We don't want her as a candidate. Our feelings for her fall between the levels of affection for bedbugs and cockroaches. We don't want to surrender our country to her wholesale criminality and rape of our Constitution. We don't want to read about Arkancides clearing out all opposition.

Enough of Chelsea in the news. We've had our fill of Huma. Spare us Little Georgie Stephanopoulos resuming his embarrassing suckuppery right out front where everybody can see. We don't want more of our strategic minerals going to the Russians or our ultra-secret weapons systems declassified to benefit the Chinese.

We don't want still more emails going to our enemies. We don't want more stories of Americans fighting and dying in faraway lands while Hillary turns over and goes back to sleep. We don't want to hear that scratchy voice punctuated with "you know" every few seconds. We don't want a First Husband running a personal porn industry out of the White House.

We don't want the economy messed with now that Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
has it running like a Swiss watch.

We don't want this vile creature who sneers at us, calls us names, insults our intelligence, denigrates us ‐ we don't want this queen of the Deep State at the helm. One of those was plenty, thank you.

Clinton fatigue doesn't begin to describe how we feel about this evil woman and her sick husband. Americans of both sexes and all ages, parties, religions, colors, sexual orientations, national origins, and dysfunctions want the Clintons, paraphrasing Biff Tannen, to make like a tree and get out of here.

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Tom Brady's Popularity Stems From The 'Latest Wave Of White Rage And White Supremacy' Professor Claims
[NEWSWEEK] New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady is one of the most accomplished and decorated NFL stars of all time, but Kyle Kusz, an associate professor of kinesiology
The study of the mechanics of body movements. I never heard of it before either.
It’s been around for a while. Both physical therapy and occupational therapy are based on it.
at the University of Rhode Island has a much different take on the 42-year-old.

According to Campus Reform, Kusz does not think Brady's popularity stems from his six Superbowl titles but instead due to white supremacy and white male rage.
...the liberal concept (the science is settled!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the men are girls transitioning to boys, or boys transitioning to girls, or either transitioning to sheep...


In Kusz's book, titled Making American White Men Great Again: Tom Brady, Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, and the Allure of White Male Omnipotence in Post-Obama America, he details his beliefs regarding Brady's fame.

"Quarterback Tom Brady has gained popularity due to the 'latest wave of white rage and white supremacy,'" wrote Kusz.

According to Kusz, this popularity began with the election of former President Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
, parallel to "a disturbing racial reaction among white conservatives in response to the idea that a black man would be [president]."

In his book, Kusz focuses on a 2015 Under Armour commercial in which Brady appeared. The style of the ad "would not seem out of place in Leni Riefenstahl's infamous Nazi propaganda film, Triumph des Willens," Kusz wrote.


"I decided to research Trump and Brady's public performances of their white masculinities and how they connect with broader debates about race and gender politics after a student in one of my classes brought the UnderArmour commercial to my attention, and it piqued my interest," the professor said in an interview with Campus Reform.

Brady's apparent support of Trump began in 2015 when he placed a red Make America Great Again hat in his locker. "I have so many great friends in New England including Tom Brady and Coach Belichick" said Trump at a 2016 rally in New Hampshire, according to the Boston Globe. "How good is Tom? Remember last year, he had the red hats?"

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ed Muybridge betrayed his devotion
To whiteness in studies of motion!
Not one of those studies
Was shot with Black bodies,
Resulting in... er... spacial distortion!

Posted by: Chesney Snore8507 || 09/29/2019 3:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Is this Tom Brady the last major league professional (American) football white player, or something?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 4:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Kinesiology - classes jocks take when they are too dumb for sociology.
Posted by: Grutch Cheting3238 || 09/29/2019 6:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Chesney Snore8507 just penned a masterpiece. Black bodies and distortion !
Posted by: Kofi Munster8003 || 09/29/2019 6:46 Comments || Top||

#5  White Supremacy aka Western Civilization which used to be about rewarding success not failure.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#6  RE #5: AKA - Everybody hates a winner....
Posted by: Hupuling Sforza8933 || 09/29/2019 8:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Yo Mama;
Posted by: Dale || 09/29/2019 8:53 Comments || Top||

#8  He's just securing his track to tenure with this mindless bullshit.
Posted by: Raj || 09/29/2019 9:24 Comments || Top||

#9  He has tenure.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 10:18 Comments || Top||

#10  He's an associate professor; i.e. not tenured.
Posted by: Raj || 09/29/2019 10:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Lecturer, Senior lecturer, Associate Professor, full Professor. You confuse with associate lecturer. Just click through.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 11:10 Comments || Top||

#12  https://web.uri.edu/english/people/
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 11:12 Comments || Top||

#13  I stand corrected.
Posted by: Raj || 09/29/2019 11:28 Comments || Top||

#14  😎
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 11:32 Comments || Top||

#15  English faculty at 000's of American universities & colleges was made into shitshow decades ago. That was the original woke movement and identity politics battleground.
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 11:42 Comments || Top||

#16  According to Rate My Professor, he is actually a sociology professor, and success in his kinesiology course depends on parroting back his strongly held opinions on race and other progressive shibboleths.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2019 12:15 Comments || Top||

#17  NE Patriots uber alles?
Posted by: Regular joe || 09/29/2019 12:35 Comments || Top||

#18  I've never been a fan of Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft the pervert or any other person of any sort associated with the New England Patriots NFL football team. There have been too many cheating and prostitution scandals and they've beaten up on my Raiders far too often.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/29/2019 14:57 Comments || Top||

#19  Whotta maroon.
Posted by: KBK || 09/29/2019 20:09 Comments || Top||

#20  Raiders? Do you mean the LA Las Vegas Traitors?
Posted by: Hupuling Sforza8933 || 09/29/2019 20:09 Comments || Top||


Harris Asked Nadler to Open Kavanaugh Impeachment Inquiry
[FREEBEACON] Sen. Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
(D., Calif.) asked Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) in a Sept. 17 letter to open a formal impeachment inquiry into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh following the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Imagine this despicable person as our next Attorney General. Imagine the extraordinary damage she could do to this nation in that role.
Then get busy, as AB used to say.
Volunteer. Organize. GOTV for 2020.
Don't let a Pres. Warren appoint an Atty Gen. KamalHo.
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 4:55 Comments || Top||

#3  One Party System!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2019 7:38 Comments || Top||

#4  The Dims do not have a majority in the Senate (Legislative Branch) The Dims do not occupy thr Oval Office (Executive Branch). Tbe Dims do not have a majority on the Supreme Court (Judicial Branch). They only have a majority of the House (Lower half of the Legislative Branch).

They are not legislating. They are harrassing the other branches of the Federal Government.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 09/29/2019 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  I keep reading the 'burg every morning to see if the first shots of our next Civil War have been fired.

The Dems are pushing themselves farther and farther into insanity and the cork is going to pop very soon.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/29/2019 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  These people have allowed their hatred for Trump to drive them crazy. They are stuck in crazy and impeachment frenzy. They are going after Barr, Kavanaugh and Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/29/2019 10:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Nope. They're after going you (and me - Zionist Entity, remember?), JQC. Trump, Kavanaugh, and Barr are just in the way.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 10:21 Comments || Top||


Rep. Andy Biggs Introduces Motion to Censure Adam Schiff
[BREITBART] Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) on Friday introduced a motion to condemn and censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman 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"...
(D-CA) for performing a fabricated conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his opening statement at a panel hearing Thursday morning.

"During yesterday’s hearing, Chairman Schiff’s opening statement included a blatantly false retelling of President Trump’s conversation with the Ukrainian president. Democrats previously initiated an impeachment inquiry, which leads to one of the most serious, constitutional duties of Members of Congress: removal of the President of the United States," Biggs, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement. "Through this process, if the President has committed high crimes or misdemeanors, Congress may overturn the election of the President and the will of the American people. It is therefore inexcusable to toy with the process and mislead the American public with such a statement."

Although the White House released Wednesday a transcript of the Trump-Zelensky call, Schiff made-up his own transcript that he read ahead of the testimony of acting DNI chief Joseph Maguire in which he accused the president of engaging in quid pro quo with the intent of exchanging U.S. military aid to Ukraine for an investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President and 2020 White House hopeful Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
"We’ve been very good to your country. Very good. No other country has done as much as we have. But you know what? I don’t see much reciprocity here. I hear what you want. I have a favor I want from YOU though. And I’m going to say this only seven times so you better listen good," said Schiff.

"I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of it," the congressman continued.

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This man is worse than a mendacious clown. That he wields the power he does, in his role, is terrifying.

Vote these people out. Can't wait for Nov 2020.
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 5:19 Comments || Top||

#2  You won't be able to vote Schiff out, he's a reflection of his district. Removal of these people will require other means.
Posted by: Ulomoth Jolet8979 || 09/29/2019 7:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Dems are going back to their core values, treason and slavery. If they succeed in overturning the last election and poison the coming one, the line about "All enemies, foreign and domestic" comes into play.
Posted by: Hupuling Sforza8933 || 09/29/2019 8:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Why is it so easy to impeach a president but so hard to remove a Congressman from office?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/29/2019 10:00 Comments || Top||

#5  I mean, take back the House and strip him of his committee chair.
Posted by: Lex || 09/29/2019 10:11 Comments || Top||

#6  SanFran Nan changed the rules last december so that that Congress critters who disagree with impeachment don't get to be heard. This is the final proof that the entire process is a political coup.

https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/09/29/nancy-pelosis-december-2018-rule-changes-block-republicans-participating-impeachment-process/
Posted by: Hupuling Sforza8933 || 09/29/2019 20:12 Comments || Top||


George Soros Emerges as Major Funder of ‘Global Climate Strike’ Groups
[BREITBART] Auric Goldfinger George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
financed radical environmental groups partnering in this week’s "Global Climate Strike" to the tune of nearly $25 million, according to a new report.
At least 22 of the left-wing activist groups listed as partners in the Global Climate Strike received $24,854,592 in funding from liberal billionaire George Soros between 2000-2017 through his Open Society Network, Joseph Vazquez reported Thursday for the Media Research Center.

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Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  https://freewestmedia.com/2019/04/24/george-soros-is-backing-greta-thunberg/

Posted by: Kofi Munster8003 || 09/29/2019 6:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Soros is a rent seeker and he backs puppets that contribute to his ability to rent seek such as greenism etc.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/29/2019 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Soros is doing the same thing in UK. World order is failing.
Posted by: Dale || 09/29/2019 8:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Soros, the rent-seeker (or blood-sucker if you prefer): now there's a case to be made for meddling in everyone else's elections and affairs without any legitimate portfolio.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/29/2019 9:59 Comments || Top||

#5  The eternal aborigine in everybody else's fuel supply.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/29/2019 10:07 Comments || Top||


#7  Somehow, the Bond Movies, (was it Dr. No or Goldfinger?) inspire Soros in his mad efforts to destroy the world.
I think it is the immense guilt he still feels for his adolescent efforts to rob Jews in collaboration with the Nazis that pushes him onward.
A sad but horrible case.
Posted by: Daniel || 09/29/2019 14:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Can we declare him a domestic enemy and take him out now? Pleeeeeaaase?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/29/2019 20:43 Comments || Top||


Beto, That's Not The Best Venue to Declare Who Should Only Be Trusted With Guns
[TOWNHALL] Former Democratic Congressman Robert Francis O’Rourke;
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
is making history, I guess. He wants to take private property from millions of law-abiding Americans. Bob is anti-gun. And he proudly said "hell yes" to confiscating so-called assault weapons. He’s the liberal who thinks the AR-15 is a scary gun. Americans own millions of these rifles. There is no way compliance for confiscation will be honored. It’s illegal. It’s unconstitutional. And if Democrats want to follow the playbooks of never winning another presidential race for the foreseeable future, follow this guy’s lead.

Liberals have short memories. Gun control already cost them the 2000 election, with Gore losing West Virginia, Tennessee, and Arkansas over his stance on gun control. Those states, even with Bush winning Florida, would have been enough to push Gore past 270 and succeed Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
in January of 2001.

So, whom does Bob (aka Beto) think should be trusted to own firearms in America? You guessed it; only the police, military, and other agents of the state should be allowed to own guns. And did I mention that he made this pitch at Kent State University, where the National Guard shot and killed four students in 1970 during a Vietnam War protest?
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...If this moron had an (R) behind his name, he would be hounded unmercifully until he dropped out of the race.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/29/2019 17:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Precisely the type of politician Charlton Heston had in mind when he spoke at the NRA....a sentiment I mirror!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/29/2019 17:44 Comments || Top||


Beta O'Rourke says Trump should resign during impeachment inquiry
Who's desperate and illiterate to laws and the actual f'n Constitution? THIS flash of teeth and fake Micksican heritage. What an idiot
[10 News via Ay Pee] Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke says President Donald Trump should resign as Congress begins an impeachment investigation.

O'Rourke said Saturday there shouldn't be a fear of an impeachment probe intensifying partisan divisions. The former Texas congressman said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin that he believes impeaching Trump would ultimately unify the country.

But O'Rourke says "the best thing" Trump can do at this point is to step down. Trump defiantly denies any wrongdoing.

The 2020 Democratic presidential field is unanimous in its support of Congress for launching an impeachment investigation. The White House's handling of Trump's calls with foreign leaders is at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry.

O'Rourke has been lagging in the polls but says he's in the race "until the very end."
*SOON*
Posted by: Frank G || 09/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I always thought that the main reason rich people are rich is because they're good at guarding their wealth. So, why did one, very rich, family let their daughter marry someone like Beto?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 3:06 Comments || Top||

#2  ...failed to do a proper background check.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/29/2019 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Guilty until proven innocent eh?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/29/2019 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Interestingly He hasn't asked for Biden to stand down while investigated...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/29/2019 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Said the cross-dressing burglar...
Posted by: Hupuling Sforza8933 || 09/29/2019 8:09 Comments || Top||

#6  At this point he is saying the stupidest shit just to say in the news and relevant.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/29/2019 8:21 Comments || Top||

#7  These people are left-wing extremist vigilantes with a rope looking for a tree for the accused without a crime or the benefit of rights or a trial. They are truly insane and dangerous. I wondered what happened to all those people who got turned out of the asylums.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/29/2019 9:53 Comments || Top||

#8  I wonder if all this is not in hope that one of their more mindless adherents will decide to assassinate the "tyrant"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/29/2019 10:11 Comments || Top||

#9  You have to wonder if Beto isn't in it to draw flack away from the rest of the clowns. I expect him to say something really newsworthy stupid every time the others step on a rake as if thats his job.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/29/2019 18:27 Comments || Top||



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