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-Lurid Crime Tales-
CD Media Releasing Information On Poroshenko Money Laundering/Biden Cover Up, In Series Of Articles, With Sourcing
[CD] Developing story...

CD Media has personally seen and obtained an immense amount of data on the story we broke last week regarding former Ukrainian Petro Poroshenko’s laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars of IMF aid money and the attempts by the Democratic Party and the Obama Administration to cover up the scandal and go after now President Trump, along with involvement by then Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden.

As mentioned before, we will be releasing a large number of sourcing articles, starting with this one, over the next few weeks. Another will be released later today which details how the Poroshenko money laundering actually worked.

Our source has seen the data from within the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office. CD Media can confirm the prosecutor’s office is ready to cooperate with the FBI and the information has been recently provided to FBI agents.

The first thing readers must realize is that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) was an organization set up (extra-judicially) by the Obama Administration within Ukraine to help the Democrats cover up the vast corruption that had been going on, and as a tool to go after then-candidate Donald J. Trump. In fact, the initial head of the bureau engineered by the U.S. State Department in Ukraine, Artem Sytnyk, has been tried and convicted of conspiring to help presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Sytnyk’s group was the office that released the so-called ’black ledger’ against Paul Manafort, who was then Trump’s campaign manager and now sits in jail, convicted by the Mueller investigation.

CD Media’s editor-in-chief reported on the shakiness of the black ledger evidence at the time when writing for The Washington Times.

Before we go into details of the complicated money laundering scheme in the next article later today, another intelligence source inside Ukraine would like the Biden campaign to answer the following questions:

1. What are the names of two CIA undercover officers who visited the General Prosecutor office and talked to Lutsenko Yuriy demanding that he close the cases on any of Burisma related matters?

2. Why Burisma related cases were closed at General Prosecutors’ office after that visit and were transferred to NABU and SAP (special prosecutor’s office)? What is the role of NABU and SAP in keeping the cases closed? How did George Kent influence NABU?

3. Why Burisma cases were stopped for investigation at NABU and SAP in Ukraine?

4. Why General Prosecutor office in Ukraine (led by Lutsenko Yuriy) denied to send investigative information on Zlochevskiy (beneficiary at Burisma Holdings) and Burisma to the UK Financial Fraud Office? The UK Large Financial Fraud Office released Zlochevskiy and closed the investigation. Check the link.

5. What was the name of the Latvian "shell" transaction company used by Burisma holdings to transfer the money to Rosemont Seneca Partners (owned and operated by Biden’s family, Archer, Heinz)?

As CD Media Breaks Corruption News On Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, A Convoy Of Trucks Empties His Palace Of Property, Confidants Arrested, Flee Ukrainian MP Alleges Massive Financial Corruption At US Embassy In Kyiv And Political Coordination Against Trump In Favor Of Democrats...Provides Evidence

Directly related: Gateway Pundit - Breaking: Ukrainian Government Ready to Cooperate with FBI on Laundering Hundreds of Millions of IMF Aid Money and Attempts by DNC to Cover It Up
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2019 10:44 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...."complicated (CIA) money laundering scheme?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2019 11:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Shitshow, Ukrainian tentpole.
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 13:33 Comments || Top||

#3  No wonder Pelosi panicked
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 16:37 Comments || Top||

#4  She's going to stop over in Kiev on the way back from Amman. Tommy's kids will have to wait.
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 21:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Smacks of CIA-DOS operation. Brennan still pulling strings?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2019 22:47 Comments || Top||


Mifsud's Phones Obtained by Durham Have UK Sim Cards Tying Them to the UK ‐ AND BACK TO JOHN BRENNAN
Pulled from a comment from our own JohnQC this morning:
[Gateway Pundit] General Michael Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell a few days ago requested that the DOJ turn over the contents of two phones related to Joseph Mifsud. We now know those phones were from the UK, the country that is more suspect than Russia ever was!

Sidney Powell on Tuesday demanded the DOJ "produce evidence that has only recently come into [the DOJ’s] possession. This evidence includes the data and metadata of the following two devices:"

We were the first to point out that there was more than one spy working to derail the Trump team back in 2015 in our post in June 2018. The President retweeted information in our post only to be ridiculed by the corrupt media ‐ to this day Wikipedia claims Trump was incorrect ‐

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2019 10:29 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hope Ms. Powell sticks it squarely up all their fat arses.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2019 10:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Surprise, surprise. So it was the UK and its agents, in cahoots with CIA and DOJ, that was interfering in our election.
Pay no attention to that sim card! Look! over there: RUSSKIES!
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 13:32 Comments || Top||

#3  5eyes.

UK doing what the US deep state asked to help spy illegally on US citizens.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/21/2019 18:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Pay no attention to that sim card! Look! over there: RUSSKIES!

I'm suddenly reminded of that strange Skripov/Novichok business. No need to rehash the oddities, but suppose it was just a bit of magician's patter and misdirection to get us looking in a certain way...
Posted by: SteveS || 10/21/2019 19:08 Comments || Top||


Top Republicans demand secret Dem impeachment docs
[ConservativeReview] The House Judiciary Committee’s top Republican member is demanding that top Democrats allow him see investigation information that has been kept secret from other members of Congress and the American people.

In a trio of Friday afternoon letters to the Democratic chairs of the three committees conducting the House’s impeachment investigation — Intelligence, Oversight, and Foreign Affairs — House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collings, R-Ga., said that he intends to use a House rule to get access to impeachment materials that have thus far only been made available to members of those panels.

“I write to inform you of my intent to exercise my right under House Rule XI, Clause 2(e)(2)(A) to review documents and records in possession of [your committee] so that you may prepare accordingly,” the letters explain. “Please make available all records, documents, transcripts, and other materials related to or obtained in the course of the ongoing joint investigation between the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Committee on Oversight and Reform.”

According to the House rule Collins cites, “all committee records … shall be the property of the House, and each Member, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner shall have access thereto.”
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2019 09:48 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Durham To Interview James Clapper And John Brennan As He Expands Investigation; Brennan Wonders Why
[Right Scoop] CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 16, 2016, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the Islamic State. Brennan said that the Islamic State remains "formidable" and "resilient," is training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks on the West and will rely more on guerrilla-style tactics to compensate for its territorial losses in the Middle East. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

NBC News reported that Attorney General William Barr and Prosecutor John Durham have expanded their examination of the origins of the Trump/Russia investigation. Durham has increased the size of his staff and has pushed out his timeframe.

Durham will be interviewing former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper along with other current and former intelligence community officials. According to NBC:

While on the seldom discussed topic of accountability, would it be possible to begin the questioning by discussing intelligence failures which led to‎ Operation Gothic Serpent and ‎Battle of Mogadishu (Blackhawk Down), Khobar Towers, 9/11, the USS Cole, the Camp Chapman attack and suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, Benghazi, and Extortion-17 ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2019 03:11 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Brennan said that the Islamic State remains "formidable" and "resilient," is training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks on the West and will rely more on guerrilla-style tactics to compensate for its territorial losses in the Middle East.

Man can't open his mouth without recounting his achievements?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 3:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Brennan said that the Islamic Deep State remains "formidable" and "resilient," is training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks on the West and will rely more on guerrilla-style tactics to compensate for its territorial losses in the Middle East.

Minor publishing error corrected.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2019 3:19 Comments || Top||

#3  He testifies that the war must go on, forever, because the foreign bogeyman will get us if we don't.

This kind of thing is so easy to spot.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/21/2019 4:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Also a product of aggressive television advertising.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2019 6:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Perhaps Durham will consider reaming Brennan with a Roto-Rooter as a part of his interview? Brennan was pitching for too many other teams.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2019 9:09 Comments || Top||

#6  He testifies that the war must go on, forever, because the foreign bogeyman will get us if we don't.

I can get you the names of 3,000-some people who died from foreign bogeymen.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/21/2019 9:31 Comments || Top||


#8  When does he commit suicide?
Posted by: Fat Bob Javish1936 || 10/21/2019 11:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Brennan in the enter of the picture says it all, that and the GCHQ director who resigned when Trump was elected.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/21/2019 12:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Someone should tell Brennan to do the honorable thing and leave him a pocket knife, he doesn't rate a pistol with one round. Only men get that.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/21/2019 13:59 Comments || Top||

#11  When does he commit suicide?

When he comes close to implicating Hillary, of course.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 14:04 Comments || Top||

#12  But, but, but we've always been at war with East Asia.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/21/2019 15:54 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Former Baltimore mayor and Pelosi brother Thomas D'Alesandro dies
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro III, the brother of 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...
, died at 90 from complications of a stroke.

D'Alesandro served one term as mayor of Baltimore, from 1967-1971, which included thee 1968 riots, racial tension, and strikes.
A Democrat Success Story™
"Tommy was the finest public servant I have ever known. His life and leadership were a tribute to the Catholic values with which we were raised: faith, family, patriotism. He profoundly believed, as did our parents, that public service was a noble calling and that we all had a responsibility to help others," Pelosi said in a statement.

"Tommy dedicated his life to our city. A champion of civil rights, he worked tirelessly for all who called Baltimore home. Tommy was a leader of dignity, compassion and extraordinary courage, whose presence radiated hope upon our city during times of struggle and conflict," it continued. "All his life, Tommy worked on the side of the angels. Now, he is with them. With his commitment to his family and public service, his life has truly blessed America."

D'Alesandro is survived by his "wife Margaret, his children Thomas, Dominic, Nicholas, Patricia and Gregory, and his grandchildren whom he adored."

Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why did she go to Jordan instead of her brother's funeral?
Posted by: 3dc || 10/21/2019 12:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Because she knows she's got her brother's vote locked up for the next election.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/21/2019 12:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Because she's a soulless power-hungry minor-league lifelong pol. Tommy would understand. Runs in the familia
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 13:40 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Mayor Lori Lightfoot proposes doubling city’s tax on food and drinks at restaurants
There’s absolutely no way this could possibly have unexpected repercussions.
[Chicago Tribune] Mayor Lori "Groot" Lightfoot will propose a tax hike on all food and drinks sold in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
restaurants to help shrink a massive estimated $838 million shortfall in the 2020 budget.

The proposal would double the current .25% tax on food and drinks sold at retail establishments and restaurants, the mayor’s office said. Aldermen will need to approve the increase, which would kick in Jan. 1.

Lightfoot anticipates the increase brings in an extra $20 million in 2020, according to her administration.

"As part of a number of revenue solutions we are contemplating, we are asking those dining out to chip in an additional 25 cents for every $100 restaurant tab," Lightfoot said in a statement. "These and other responsible solutions will help the city secure dedicated revenues which are necessary for repairing our financial challenges in 2020 and for the long term."

The tax Lightfoot wants to raise is but a fraction of the levy Chicago diners pay every time they eat out. The sales tax in Chicago is 10.25 percent, one of the highest in the nation. The current .25 city tax is on top of that, as is a a 1% food and beverage tax for the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority that is levied at downtown restaurants as well as the two airports.

Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That is a tax against the poor.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/21/2019 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Light Cognitive, more appropriate.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/21/2019 1:01 Comments || Top||

#3  A tax on shooting people would raise more money.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/21/2019 1:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Urban hunting licenses? I like that.
Posted by: Vespasian Angomoting1359 || 10/21/2019 2:16 Comments || Top||

#5  http://heyjackass.com/

This site needs to be posted far and wide.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/21/2019 3:02 Comments || Top||

#6  I'd guess she's unhappy that there is some middle class still left in Chicago.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 3:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Democrats attempt to resolve all fiscal challenges through tax increases.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2019 3:16 Comments || Top||

#8  MORE MORON'S in charge?
Posted by: ranture || 10/21/2019 5:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Another sign of the parasite overwhelming the host.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/21/2019 7:38 Comments || Top||

#10  never less spending; always more taking
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 10/21/2019 7:48 Comments || Top||

#11  "As part of a number of revenue solutions we are contemplating, we are asking those dining out to chip in an additional 25 cents for every $100 restaurant tab,"

You're not 'asking', you're taking, ya freakin' weasel. This broad's gonna make people wish Rahm Emmanuel was back as mayor.
Posted by: Raj || 10/21/2019 7:57 Comments || Top||

#12  You're missing a bet, Lori. I just have one word to tell you... "Air".
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/21/2019 8:54 Comments || Top||

#13  How about a "Hair" tax. Agents could go around measuring the length of your hair and taxing it per each 1/16 of an inch. Let's hear it for bald women.
Posted by: Clyde Dribble8052 || 10/21/2019 12:35 Comments || Top||

#14  Yes! And the proceeds of this Hair Tax could be put into a sacred, untouchable trust fund locksbox and used to repair the ongoing fallout from slavery and other misdeeds of the wicked wig-wearing founders, under a program called... um... um... "Government Redistribution of Weavery."
Posted by: Gramp Brown5117 || 10/21/2019 14:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Gabbard is anti-Hillary, but still far-left fringe
h/t Instapundit
[The Washington Times] - Democratic candidate for president Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, in a widely watched Twitter-posted YouTube video, condemned the "rich, powerful" gang of elites who surround Hillary Clinton and demand Democrats either "toe the line" or stay silent.

That’s good. But it’s not exactly an "enemy of my enemy is a friend" moment; Gabbard, after all, has some far-left and outlandish views. She’s a progressive who has some serious flip-flops on policy in her background that shouldn’t be overlooked simply because she’s taking on Hillary, and hard.

Still: We can enjoy the anti-Clinton moment for a moment, yes?

Here’s what Gabbard wrote, on Twitter: "Hillary & her gang of rich, powerful elite are going after me to send a msg to YOU: ’Shut up, toe the line, or be destroyed.’ But we, the people, will NOT be silenced. Join me in taking our Democratic Party back & leading a govt of, by & for the people!"

In the accompanying video, Gabbard said that she had been warned in 2016 that her endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders ‐ who went against Clinton for the party’s nomination for president ‐ would "be the end" of her political career.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 12:53 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She's anti-war. We can't insist on purity for all candidates. Stopping the wars all over the world is good enough.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/21/2019 13:28 Comments || Top||

#2  She isn't very bright, either.
Still, it's nice to hear a DC politician calling BS on the Shitshow.
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 13:29 Comments || Top||

#3  In any healthy republic, a sane and civil opposition is necessary. She represents to me, what the Democrat party should be like. Left, liberal maybe but also deserving of a voice and not militant or insurgent like the current DNC.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/21/2019 13:31 Comments || Top||

#4  She seems way to honest to win Dem (or for that matter, Rep) elections. She seems consistent in what she says, and has said. She is not stupid. She is not painful to listen to (or to look at, for that matter.) Would that more candidates were like her so that we could actually have substantive discussions on policies - where I mostly disagree with her.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/21/2019 14:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Stopping the wars all over the world is good enough.

Not if taking Second Amendment rights away from law-abiding Americans is part of the "package deal." Not if foaming-at-the-mouth socialism is part of the "package deal."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/21/2019 15:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Stopping the wars all over the world is good enough

How, even if one was to exterminate humanity, chimps fight wars. Ants fight wars.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 15:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Fortunately we're not chimps, and there are no existential threats to our existence. We can wind down all of our wars all over the world, and make a better America instead of spending our money on worthless military adventures.

The point is that Gabbard is a sane Democrat, even if we disagree with her. She's on the same page as far as being pro-American. A rare quality in either party, frankly.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/21/2019 16:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Fortunately we're not chimps, and there are no existential threats to our existence

Arrogant & delusional.
Also, "existential threats to our existence"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 16:11 Comments || Top||

#9  When we've turned away from physical conflicts with irrational misanthropes by acknowledging they're all really in our minds, we can get down to battling the real threat of a planet increasingly unable to support our whimsies. eg: watching an F1 race surrounded by tropical forest.

/sarc needed ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/21/2019 16:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Thank goodness we'd never act chimpy,
Form up in an impious impi,
Inhumanly feudin',
Stone throwin' or shootin'...
Those monkeys must sure think we're wimpy!
Posted by: Gramp Brown5117 || 10/21/2019 17:00 Comments || Top||

#11  So, peace, pace Fermi!
Stop tryin' to scare me,
And shaddup and watch Ren and Stimpy.
Posted by: Gramp Brown5117 || 10/21/2019 17:01 Comments || Top||

#12  Ren and Stimpy

Now that brings up memories.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 17:04 Comments || Top||

#13  Nice - another F1 fan (I hope!).
Posted by: Raj || 10/21/2019 18:26 Comments || Top||

#14  OK, I'll bite: what are the threats to the existence of the continental United States?

Iranians going to put landing craft on Miami Beach?
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/21/2019 18:34 Comments || Top||

#15  #7 - I'm beginning to think you're simply arguing withdrawal to the point of unilateral disarmament? Is there ANY conflict that would EVER justify US intervention in your little mind? I doubt it. Troll
Posted by: Frank G || 10/21/2019 18:35 Comments || Top||

#16  Nice - another F1 fan

Have nothing against it. Just stopped watching after Ayrton Senna died.

I do find the globalist facade of curbing developing economies' fuel and coal consumption in the name of saving the environment hypocritical. While motorsports must waste I don't know how much fuel.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/21/2019 18:48 Comments || Top||

#17  When Jimmuah Cahtah was prexident he had an aide ask the people who run the Indy 500 if they would shorten the race as a feel good gesture of saving gasoline during the oil embargo. The administration was informed that Indy cars don't burn gasoline.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/21/2019 19:08 Comments || Top||

#18  Last election she supported Bernie Sanders and she believes only the military and cops should have weapons. The fact that she looks good compared to the rest of the Clown Car just indicates how bad they are, not how good she is.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/21/2019 19:36 Comments || Top||


AOC: Bernie Made Me 'Recognize My Inherent Value as a Human Being'
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 12:30 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But what if he does not have inherent value himself?
Posted by: newc || 10/21/2019 12:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, your value as a human being in a socialist utopia is only determined by how much you can give to the state.

In other words, you are only worth something if you can produce. Otherwise you are not only worthless, but a net negative to the state.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2019 12:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Sanders has never produced anything for the state. He lived off of it his whole life.
Posted by: newc || 10/21/2019 13:26 Comments || Top||

#4  She's boinking him?
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 13:46 Comments || Top||

#5  OH Lex; that almost makes me feel sorry for Bernie. Almost being the key word.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/21/2019 14:06 Comments || Top||

#6 
"He gifted me with this beautiful coin..."


Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/21/2019 14:15 Comments || Top||

#7  beware her teeth
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 15:22 Comments || Top||

#8  zero sense
Posted by: 746 || 10/21/2019 16:52 Comments || Top||

#9  AOC: Bernie Made Me 'Recognize My Inherent Value as a Human Being'

All the wisdom, knowledge, and voice of an 11 yr old girl
Posted by: Frank G || 10/21/2019 18:41 Comments || Top||

#10  All the wisdom, knowledge, and voice of an 11 yr old girl

Being groomed by an 'oldé sicko'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/21/2019 18:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Fertilizer?
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/21/2019 22:09 Comments || Top||

#12  Bernie, a rent-seeker who has never collected anything other than a government check.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2019 23:05 Comments || Top||

#13  Nothing wrong with tending bar kid.
Posted by: Secret Master || 10/21/2019 23:16 Comments || Top||


Mitt = Pierre Delecto! ‐ ‘Liked' Tweets from Mitt Romney's Secret "Pierre Delecto" Twitter Page Show Man Obsessed with Trump Hatred and Leading GOP Resistance
Pierre Delecto nym reads like a pron star.
[GatewayPundit] Twitter Page Show Man Obsessed with Trump Hatred and Leading GOP Resistance.

"That’s kind of what he does," Romney said with a shrug, and then got up to retrieve an iPad from his desk. He explained that he uses a secret Twitter account‐"What do they call me, a lurker?"‐to keep tabs on the political conversation. "I won’t give you the name of it," he said, but "I’m following 668 people." Swiping at his tablet, he recited some of the accounts he follows, including journalists, late-night comedians ("What’s his name, the big redhead from Boston?"), and athletes. Trump was not among them. "He tweets so much," Romney said, comparing the president to one of his nieces who overshares on Instagram. "I love her, but it’s like, Ah, it’s too much."
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2019 08:35 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Romney is classic eGOP. A globalist and socialist light figure just like Bush and the rest of that lot. They have lost control of the grand 'ol party and they are mad with hate against Trump for it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/21/2019 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  It's official - WaPo confirms it. Of course, it's behind the paywall.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/21/2019 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone should run as a GOP nominee against Trump, spend the primary season calling #NeverTrumpers and Democrats Chinese Agents, and then default to Trump before the actual primary.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/21/2019 9:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Shitshow.

Note: this is one of the so-called "sober" "moderates".

What an unbelievably stupid, fraudulent, clownish political class we have.

Bring the curtain down on their Shitshow.
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 10:24 Comments || Top||

#5  The Atlantic. The Atlantic article refers to a Slate article.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2019 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/mitt-romney-middle-impeachment-fight/600373/
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2019 10:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Have you read his actual "Pierre Delecto" tweets?
Most of them involve his responding to journalists' (e.g. Jennifer Rubin) critiques of Mitt Romney for not being harsh enough against Trump. He typically smirks and hints that Romney agrees with the Trump-hater.

What a sniveling, pathetic, lying sack o' shit.
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 10:53 Comments || Top||

#8  A leading member of the uni-party and supporter of the Deep State.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/21/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Willard Coward.
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#10  #ImpeachPierre
Posted by: Iblis || 10/21/2019 11:36 Comments || Top||

#11  Global Grifter Party
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 11:56 Comments || Top||

#12  Big time Eastern liberal elitist posing as a Republican.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/21/2019 12:28 Comments || Top||

#13  John Nolte at Breitbart has screen grabs of some of Coward's more precious twits as Pierre-in Flagrante-Delicto
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 13:37 Comments || Top||

#14  Why do these idiots go for stupid monikers, anyway?
Are they trying to humiliate themselves?
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 13:38 Comments || Top||

#15  Taking pathetic behavior to new depths.
Posted by: Raj || 10/21/2019 13:39 Comments || Top||

#16  Lex - yes, they are. All part of being a cuck.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/21/2019 13:57 Comments || Top||

#17  ^ makes sense, Rex.
Hard to read Pierre's tweets in response to the attacks on Willard Coward (see link to John Nokte's article, above) and not see the classic pattern of cuck behavior. "Humiliate me-- please humiliate me."
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 15:26 Comments || Top||

#18  his constituents should drop him next chance they get.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/21/2019 17:48 Comments || Top||

#19  Delecto delenda est.
Posted by: KBK || 10/21/2019 22:38 Comments || Top||

#20  "I'll tweet as a twit most respectable,
In pencil moustache, undetectable!
Oh, ain't it delectable?"
"Mitt, you're intractable!"
"Please, that's 'Pierre... Unelectable.'"
Posted by: Gramp Brown5117 || 10/21/2019 23:26 Comments || Top||


Dick Morris: ‘If You Feel a Pulse, You Know Hillary's Going to Run' (podcast)
[Breitbart] During Sunday’s broadcast of “The Cats Roundtable” on New York AM 970 radio, political commentator and former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris weighed in on the prospect Hillary Clinton adds her name to the crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.

Host John Catsimatidis asked Morris if there are any candidates out there who have yet to announce a run that he could see running.

Morris said as long as Clinton has a “pulse,” there is a good chance she is going to run.

“I think it’s always possible that Hillary runs,” Morris stated. “You know, John, there’s a test you can do at home. Just put your fingers on her wrist, and if you feel a pulse, you know she’s going to run.”

Morris went on to say he believes Warren gets the nomination, which he explained would be bad news for the Democratic Party looking to take down President Donald Trump.

“I think Warren will still win. And I think Trump will still beat the daylights out of her, But this Democratic process isn’t over yet,” he advised.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2019 02:27 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Morris went on to say he believes Warren gets the nomination

Warren open to making Israel aid conditional on settlement building halt
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 3:22 Comments || Top||

#2  ...is Warren a properly registered lobbyist for the Palestinian Authority? Can we start a pre-impeachment now?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/21/2019 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Warren open to making Israel aid conditional on settlement building halt

Is Warren now going to claim that she is a Palestinian?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2019 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  She is 1/1024 Palestinian.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 8:52 Comments || Top||

#5  But asking Ukraine to investigate corruption is a quid pro quo
Posted by: Frank G || 10/21/2019 9:21 Comments || Top||

#6  The Horror, the Horror
Posted by: Mistah Kurtz (he dead) || 10/21/2019 10:36 Comments || Top||

#7  "That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die."
Posted by: Nguard || 10/21/2019 13:51 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/21/2019 14:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Why should she need a pulse? Her voters don't need one/
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/21/2019 14:31 Comments || Top||

#10  How are we sure she has a pulse? She didn't assert that she had an actual pulse...
Do vampires have a pulse?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/21/2019 15:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Even the Dems are not dumb enough to go with HRC.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2019 18:14 Comments || Top||

#12  Yes well, they are amazingly stupid. They think they can turn Antifa into the Gestapo to deal with the horrible deplorables. Man do they have a rude awakening coming.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/21/2019 19:23 Comments || Top||


MSNBC panel: Gabbard didn't 'deny being a Russian asset'
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A panel on MSNBC Live mocked Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard for not explicitly denying 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...
's accusation that she is a Russian asset.

Clinton, 71, said that the Hawaii congresswoman is being groomed by Moscow to run as a third-party spoiler candidate in 2020 to help President Trump win reelection. Gabbard has since hit back at the 2016 presidential candidate.

"One thing that was interesting about Tulsi Gabbard's response, I mean she went after Hillary Clinton strong, she said she wasn't going to run as a third party candidate, she never denied being a Russian asset," Kimberly Atkins of WBUR said while beginning to laugh on the show Saturday morning. "That was the one aspect that was missing from her response, which you think that would be in the first line or two. It was not there."
Posted by: Fred || 10/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am sure yet another tinfoil hat gramma can be found who says Ms. Gabbard is a space alien asset. She supposed to deny that too?
Posted by: JHH || 10/21/2019 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Shitshow, MSNBC's tent
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 0:56 Comments || Top||

#3  They are projecting their fears onto her. Everything is a Russian asset to them. It's pathetic. BUT it keeps them from having to face the truth: Hillary was an awful candidate who deserved to lose. If they had to face that truth they'd have to re-evaluate themselves and humans will do ANYTHING but that.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/21/2019 2:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Modern Western "Educated" class, Island of Dr Moreau, find the differences.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/21/2019 3:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Did they deny they were Chinese assets?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/21/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Did they deny they were Chinese assets?

Denial and lack of evidence do not constitute acquittal.
~ Mueller's Law
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/21/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||

#7  WBUR - it's the Boston area PBS affiliate. A real bunch of sniveling leftist twerps.
Posted by: Raj || 10/21/2019 8:01 Comments || Top||

#8  So, MSNBC is still all in with "I'm with her?" Those people are all brain-dead at MSNBC.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/21/2019 8:54 Comments || Top||

#9  I see their point... they never denied being idiots,
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/21/2019 8:56 Comments || Top||

#10  GOP should start calling some folks Chinese assets.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/21/2019 9:58 Comments || Top||

#11  "Democracy Dies in Darkness Your Shitshow"
Posted by: Lex || 10/21/2019 10:17 Comments || Top||

#12  I am sure yet another tinfoil hat gramma can be found who says Ms. Gabbard is a space alien asset.

No. That's Hillary.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/21/2019 11:28 Comments || Top||



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