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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Justin Amash Drops Out of Presidential Race
From the hilariously named Reason.

And now, an ode to Jussie, with apologies to Bobby Pickett:

I was watching C-Span, late one night
When my eyes came upon a pathetic sight
For a has-been from the swamp arose
And his sour stench did attack my nose

He was Amash! He was Justin Amash
Justin Amash! And he is straight up trash
He was for sale! And sold his soul for cash
He was Amash! He was Justin Amash

The Deep State was having fun
With the Uniparty's hired guns
The guests included the Clintons
Biden, and his son

He was Amash! He was Justin Amash
Justin Amash! And there is no clash
Twixt Cato! And the need to dash
He was Amash! He was Justin Amash

And now he's gone! He was Justin Amash
The Deep State' pawn! He's gone in a flash
And so goodbye! To ol' Justin Amash
Good riddance! To ol' Justin Amash
Posted by: charger || 05/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  well... Bye.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 05/17/2020 0:59 Comments || Top||


While VP, Plugz Weinstein paraded nude every day in front of his FEMALE Secret Service detail
[Breitbart] Joe Biden’s numerous sexual misconduct allegations extend to his creepy and abusive behavior in front of female Secret Service agents, reports Ron Kessler of the Washington Times.

Kessler, who wrote about the Secret Service in a book titled The First Family Detail, discovered that while former First Lady Hillary Clinton is the most reviled among Secret Service agents, former Vice President Joe Biden comes in a close second.

One of the reasons he was so disliked was his creepy habit of stripping down naked in front of female Secret Service agents to go for a swim.

“Mr. Biden’s lack of consideration was even more stunning when it came to female agents,” Kessler writes, “who were offended that the vice president bizarrely swam naked in front of them often daily at his pools at the vice president’s residence in Washington and at his home in Delaware.”
Posted by: Lex || 05/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shhh! Lets make sure he gets thru the nomination, and THEN drop all this on him during the campaign, after the convention.

Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 05/17/2020 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Fear not, Marilyn. The media will suppress this, for sure.
Posted by: Lex || 05/17/2020 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  The Dems can't do any better than Biden? Time to roll out more of the criminal activity he has been involved in. There's plenty to last until November.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/17/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  IIUC Young Hoover is still on the payroll of that multi-billion CCP slush fund
Posted by: Lex || 05/17/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  He was a place holder to beat Sanders. Now they are letting this stuff come out so they can do a "Oh noes he is a bad man and mentally failing so I guess we can replace him at the convention!"
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/17/2020 10:06 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Bobby || 05/17/2020 12:02 Comments || Top||

#7  It would not take much to convince that this is all orchestrated, even Joey's gaffes.
Posted by: Clem || 05/17/2020 12:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, Epstein's dead and Weinstein's in jail, so Plugz better do what he can to remain "useful" to whomever for as long as possible.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/17/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

#9  The Wookie and her brain trust decided she didn't want to be second fiddle to the senile old lickspittle pervert. So JoJo is being set up for the chop at the convention? Maybe she could get the Pensylvania Health Department Director as a running mate, that way she could have a white guy/girl as a running trifecta
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/17/2020 14:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Ummmmmm PA Health Director is a guy too, but dressed as a .. All Tranny Ticket? Clever
Posted by: Frank G || 05/17/2020 15:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Justin Amash will not pursue third-party presidential run
I bet you're just as surprised as me. I mean who knew?
[Axios] Rep. Justin Amash
...pretend Republican congressman from Michigan, who probably won't be there come 2020...
(I-Mich.) announced Saturday that he will not run as a Libertarian candidate in the 2020 presidential race.

Catch up quick: Amash, the only Republican who supported impeaching President Trump, left the GOP last year. He launched an exploratory committee in late April to seek the Libertarian Party's 2020 nomination for a possible run.

What he's saying: "The new reality of social distancing levels the playing field among the candidates in many respects, but it also means lesser known candidates are more dependent on adequate media opportunities to reach people," he tweeted on Saturday.

  • "Today, most Americans are understandably more interested in what life will look like tomorrow than they are in broader policy debates, and news coverage has reflected those priorities. At the same time, fundraising challenges posed by an idled economy will hinder advertising."

  • "I remain invested in helping the party realize these possibilities and look forward to the successes ahead."
Posted by: Frank G || 05/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. He was only really going to split a few marginal votes off from Trump, but in a key state, Michigan. I suspect someone had a Come To Jesus talk with the boy.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 05/17/2020 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Well, actually, the Libertarians did. Their primary has been going on for months,and he didn't actually *ask* them if they wanted another candidate 2/3rds of the way through their process.
Posted by: Secret Master || 05/17/2020 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Who ISN'T a "pretend" Republican anymore?
Posted by: Clem || 05/17/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Ah'm not.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/17/2020 16:42 Comments || Top||


After ex-CIA chief Brennan sought to ‘unmask’ Flynn he wails releasing names is ‘abominable abuse of authority’
[BIZPACREVIEW] Former CIA Director John Brennan
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
, one of dozens of B.O. regime officials who requested the "unmasking" of incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, has called the recent release of those names an "abominable abuse of authority."

In an interview with his benefactor, MSNBC, Brennan also blasted the Justice Department for dropping its case against Flynn, despite evidence that the FBI, then under Director JamesThe spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
, set up a perjury trap for the retired three-star Army general.

Brennan seemed to be channeling the administration he worked for when he characterized the decision as "blatant political corruption at the highest levels of U.S. government."

"I just think what [acting Director of National Intelligence Richard] Grenell and others are doing now raises some serious questions about the ongoing capabilities, focus of the intelligence and law enforcement community," Brennan continued in ripping the decision to declassify and release intelligence documents showing that he, among many others, had requested that Flynn be unmasked.

Posted by: Fred || 05/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The real problem is that he's starting to sweat bullets because all the evidence pointing at Obama makes Brennan the best fall guy. If Hillary is involved too, he better make sure his will is current and insurance is paid up. People that cross those folks tend to die mysteriously.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 05/17/2020 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  ...surprised he hasn't been taken off a ventilator yet.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/17/2020 6:44 Comments || Top||

#3  If I "never" see this cabal of crooks again, it would be too soon. An exception would be to watch them being "frog-marched" to court and prison--I think I'd have to invest in popcorn early as there would be many others doing the same.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/17/2020 9:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Obama's been extremely frenzied of late. Very curious.

We've never seen a former president go on the warpath against his successor as this nasty little weasel has, twice now in the past week.

This sh!tty little man actually used a videoconference/virtual graduation speech he delivered to s.t. like a million high school kids last week to trash Trump with the most ridiculous over-the-top rhetoric we've ever heard from a former president.

Disgusting, but perhaps also a tell. Zero's sweating billets now.

Could be a sign that one or more of his rats Comey-Brennan-Clapper is getting ready to flip.
Posted by: Lex || 05/17/2020 9:56 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 👍
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/17/2020 14:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Let's see, you think this will squash any more absurd notions of Michael Michelle joining the presidential fray somehow?

Meanwhile, let's see...Barry Soetoro...citizen of where now? I'm sure he has a home...somewhere.
Posted by: Clem || 05/17/2020 14:13 Comments || Top||


New House vote-by-proxy measure sets off screaming alarms as Pelosi gobbles power
[BIZPACREVIEW] 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...
essentially told members of Congress they don’t need to show up for work anymore and she will take care of voting for them.

The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat led members of the House to pass legislation on Friday that allows politicians to stay home and vote by proxy during the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic. The unprecedented bill coincided with the approval of a massive $3 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that has objecting Republicans reeling.

Rep. Steve Scalise condemned the "power grab" as "unconstitutional" during a panel discussion on Fox News, warning House members who voted in favor of proxy voting that they will have to face their constituents and explain why they "just voted to give your voting card to Nancy Pelosi."

"This is going to be a tough vote for them to explain," the House Minority Whip and GOP representative for Louisiana told former Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who was filling in as host on "Hannity" Friday.

"You now signed on for the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
values, and by the way, what are you doing there? Why are you collecting a paycheck if you want Nancy Pelosi to vote for you and represent your district?" Scalise said, adding that the bill "goes against Article I of the Constitution" by allowing 20 Democrats who are not present to make up a quorum on the House floor.

If it were to become law, the bill would, for the first time in the House’s 231-year history, allow a member to name a colleague to vote on their behalf. The member acting as a proxy, in addition, can represent up to 10 politicians under the new rule.

Posted by: Fred || 05/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There has got to be a way to stop this mad dog Pelosi.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 05/17/2020 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  ^But remember 'Burgs' policy on soliciting assassination.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/17/2020 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Senate votes down her insane bills. Give the President a breather.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/17/2020 15:32 Comments || Top||

#4  She's excited about being third in the chain of command with Trump and Pence not wearing masks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/17/2020 16:56 Comments || Top||


Trump Says US Will Resume Funding WHO — At Same Level As China
[DAILYCALLER] The Trump administration will shortly resume funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), but it will be at the same level as China, according to a Fox News report released Friday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

"This is a Fox News alert," said Carlson, "The Trump administration is on the brink of resuming U.S. funding of the World Health Organization. Last month, the administration cut off U.S. funding at the president’s direction. That amounts to about $400 million a year."

Carlson read from a draft letter reportedly written by President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
and obtained by Fox News.

"Despite all of these shortcomings, I believe the World Health Organization still has tremendous potential, and want to see the WHO live up to this potential, particularly now during this global crisis. That is why I have decided the United States will continue to partner and work with the WHO and agree to pay up to what China pays in assessed contributions."

Posted by: Fred || 05/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bout time!
Posted by: Gliling Wheaper4892 || 05/17/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  It ain't what China contributes to the WHO that matters, it's what they contribute to WHO officials.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/17/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm curious to know how the ChiComs managed to capture the WHO.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/17/2020 12:06 Comments || Top||

#4  ...cause we don't want to get into a bidding match for who we can buy or ones that stay bought? We played that game in the 50s through the fall of the wall - Our (western aligned) dictators were better than their (eastern aligned) dictators.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/17/2020 15:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Ilhan Omar's Daughter Calls US Soldiers Bitches And Call For Communist Revolution
From the picture, she might be Superman in disguise. Looks like she's got a big ess.
[AlphaNewsMN] Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, is very forthright about her leftist political beliefs on Tik Tok and Twitter and is also highly involved in left leaning political activism.

Hirsi, age 17, was born during Omar’s now dissolved marriage to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi. In addition to serving as the co-founder and co-executive director of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike, she also runs two Tik Tok accounts where she posts about her socialist political beliefs.
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/17/2020 09:39 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  See, hijab is functional!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 05/17/2020 14:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Totally Americanized, unlike her mother, and acting out against her mother’s desertion in a way approved by her classmates.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/17/2020 15:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Jeeebus! She carrying marsupials in that pouch?
Posted by: Frank G || 05/17/2020 16:09 Comments || Top||

#4  At this point, anything that upsets her that creature's type is fine with me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/17/2020 16:18 Comments || Top||

#5  from the picture she might be Superman
she carrying marsupials in that pouch?


IIRC production hands on the set of the original 'Superman' used to refer to Christopher Reeve as "dressing right" or "dressing left" depending on which way it was, uh, hanging that day.

From the photo it looks like young Ms. Hirsi is "dressing up"...
Posted by: Lex || 05/17/2020 16:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Deport them
Posted by: newc || 05/17/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Ghak, wish I hadn't looked.
Belly or boner, you decide.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/17/2020 16:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Photo, is photoshopped IMHO.

Feet are wrong with the rock grade; very clean lines. Looks like different aperture settings for background and subject.

No shadow for Punxsutawney Isra.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/17/2020 16:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Tranny
Posted by: crazyhorse || 05/17/2020 18:25 Comments || Top||

#10  She does look composited onto the background.

I wonder if she ever imagines what her life would have been growing up in Mogadishu.

Posted by: SteveS || 05/17/2020 21:10 Comments || Top||

#11  Mr. Wife says she looks like she is in the same focus as the rocks she is standing on, but her shadow is missing at her feet, whereas the rocks do have a shadow. If he were compositing an image like that one, the first thing he would do would be to add in the shadow she ought to have had.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/17/2020 21:43 Comments || Top||

#12  Mr. Wife might very well be correct. There is a slight shadow under her right foot in the area below. There also appears to be slight ones under her sandals against the rocks she's standing on, although those may be stray vestigial pixels from the 'layer stacking' a less than perfect cut-out.

As she is supposedly standing at the edge of a rock and the light is apparently coming from her front at about a 50-60-degree angle, we might not see a shadow behind her. Overcast day, too.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/17/2020 21:59 Comments || Top||

#13  She's not to proud to overeat American food.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/17/2020 23:02 Comments || Top||



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