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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chaffetz: ‘Shocking Revelations' in ‘Blood Money' Will ‘Rock Washington D.C.'
[Breitbart] Former U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) teased seven-time New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer’s upcoming book Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, warning that the book’s "shocking revelations" will "rock Washington D.C."

"Shocking revelations with source materials backing up the facts," Chaffetz, a Government Accountability Institute (GAI) Distinguished Fellow, wrote.

"I have read the book. This will rock Washington D.C.," he warned:

The book’s official release is Tuesday, February 27, and it is the result of a two-year investigation by Schweizer — the president of the GAI and a senior contributor to Breitbart News — and his team of forensic investigators, who traced hundreds of billions of dollars in suspect money linked to China’s undeclared war on the U.S., sifting through "restricted" Chinese military documents and what Amazon’s book description describes as a "mountain of American financial records" and also "tracking US political lead­ers’ investments and family businesses."

Blood Money is under a strict embargo; and while little is publicly known about the book, its cover features President Joe Biden, Chinese Communist Party Leader Xi Jinping, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Dr. Anthony Fauci, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Neville Roy Singham, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/19/2024 02:02 || Comments || Link || [40 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I mean, c'mon, you don't think Biden leaves the border open for nothing...while all that fentanyl comes into the country? He's an experienced grifter. He always gets paid. I find it even more troubling that the media ignores it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/19/2024 13:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, no, not another "bombshell"!
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/19/2024 13:37 Comments || Top||

#3  There are a lot of people in gummint happily collecting narco money on this side of the border. There would be a lot of people on his back if Joe tried to stop or slow it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/19/2024 13:51 Comments || Top||


CBP's Top Medical Officer Tries to Order Fentanyl Lollipops ‐ His Reason Is Even More Preposterous
[RedState] According to a whistleblower report sent to Congress on Friday, the chief medical officer for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pressured his staff to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in September.

When the top doc was caught, his excuse was even more idiotic than his desperate effort to get his hands on the deadly drug — disguised as lollipops, no less.

Dr. Alexander Eastman’s staff raised questions about why he would need to fentanyl lollipops to take to the UN, which he claimed was... wait for it... "part of his duties to make sure that any injured CBP operators were cared for, making the argument that the lollipops would be necessary for pain management should an emergency occur."

Did I mention that Eastman was already under investigation trying to procure narcotics?

Eastman spent copious hours of his, and Office of the Chief Medical Officer, staff's time directing the OCMO staff to urgently help him procure fentanyl lollipops, a Schedule II narcotic, so that he could bring them on the CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter on which he would be a passenger in New York City. Dr. Eastman claims that his possession of fentanyl lollipops was necessary in case a CBP operator might be injured, or in case the CBP Air and Marine Operations team encountered a patient in need.

Eastman’s staff initially responded to his request by explaining that Narcan, which can save the lives of those who overdose on fentanyl, has been requested for CBP operations in the past, but not fentanyl itself.

The whistleblowers say staff members raised questions about how he would store the lollipops and what he would do with unused fentanyl at the end of the operation, according to the report.

Eastman responded by writing his own policy regarding the procurement of Schedule II narcotics, which omitted any mention of how narcotics were to be stored and disposed of, the whistleblowers alleged.

Eastman was ultimately unsuccessful in procuring fentanyl lollipops because a vendor could not be found in time for the U.N. General Assembly.
Well done to his staff for slow walking the search just long enough.
CBP takes all allegations of misconduct seriously. This matter has been referred to the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) for review. Consistent with our commitment to transparency and accountability, we will provide updates as they are available.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [44 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Little girl do you want a fentanyl lollipop?"
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/19/2024 3:47 Comments || Top||

#2  ..guess TSA wouldn't let him transport little puppies in his luggage.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/19/2024 8:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe we are being unfair to Dr. Eastman. Fentanyl Lollipops can be attractive to girls that's not so little.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/19/2024 9:03 Comments || Top||

#4  "Eastman spent copious hours of his and Office of the Chief Medical Officer staff time directing the OCMO staff to urgently help him procure fentanyl lollipops"

Check with Hunter?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/19/2024 10:14 Comments || Top||

#5  And on this news, a candy factory in China starts tooling up.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/19/2024 17:28 Comments || Top||

#6  I would make him eat all the lollypops in one sitting.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/19/2024 17:53 Comments || Top||

#7  How long has this dude been gettin high on his own supply?
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 02/19/2024 21:35 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
New York rule change makes thousands of migrants eligible for cash payments
Free money from the state's Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance.
[FoxNews] As many as 17,000 migrants could be receiving the payments in New York City.

The state of New York has been giving cash payments to thousands of migrants who typically would not qualify for the state's welfare program.

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration quietly changed the state's "Safety Net Assistance" program eligibility rules in May to allow non-citizens who have pending applications for asylum to receive benefits, making thousands of migrants eligible for the payments, according to a report from the New York Post and confirmed by Fox News Digital.

The move was made through the state's Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, which sent a message to social services agencies in the state, the report notes, though the agency would not say how many migrants are currently receiving payments.

Reached for comment by Fox News Digital, an OTDA spokesperson said just a "small portion" of the $4.3 billion the governor set aside for the migrant crisis has been used for the payments, estimating that about 90% of the current migrant population in the state would not be eligible for the benefits under the new rules.

"At the request of New York City, OTDA made a technical update to allow a small percentage of migrants to receive certain additional support in compliance with state and federal law," the spokesperson said.

But the report notes that over 173,000 migrants have made their way to New York City alone since 2022, meaning that if 10% of them were receiving payments it would amount to about 17,000 recipients in the city alone.

Migrants only qualify for the payments if they completed their paperwork to apply for asylum status and can only use the checks, which total hundreds of dollars per month, to pay for rent, utilities, clothing or other necessities, according to the report.

Michael Kracker, the chairman of the Erie County Republican Committee, told Fox News Digital the payments are "deeply offensive to hard-working New Yorkers, many who are struggling."

Kracker pointed out that some of those who are struggling are homeless veterans, who, he argued, "are looking for help from their state."

"Their state is choosing instead to provide assistance to these individuals, many of whom are ultimately going to be found to be in this country illegal," Kracker said.

The revelations of the payments were slammed by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., who argued they served as "another way to attract migrants" to New York while lower- and middle-class natives of the city struggle to make ends meet.

"You have people from all over the world coming to New York to take advantage of all these left-wing programs the governor, the mayor are implementing, while at the same time, they’re clobbering taxpayers over the head," Malliotakis told the New York Post.

The policy was also criticized by Democratic City Councilman Robert Holden, who said the "endless handouts to the entire world are a slap in the face to every citizen who has contributed to and sacrificed for this country."

Lora Ries, the director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, echoed a similar sentiment, telling Fox News Digital that New York leaders "should be choosing U.S. citizens every time over illegal aliens when it comes to distributing limited resources."

"Requesting faster work permits, and providing pre-paid credit cards and welfare benefits only encourages more illegal immigration," Ries said. "Then, the billions they have set aside will be quickly drained, they will need to spend more taxpayer money, and this cycle becomes a fiscal bottomless pit."

But the OTDA said that only people in the country legally would be eligible for benefits.

"To be clear: no one here illegally is eligible for these benefits," the spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/19/2024 10:29 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Free stuff, free stuff, free stuff.

And you wonder why they keep coming.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/19/2024 12:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Gooder and harder.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/19/2024 13:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems like rural and suburban folks don’t need to worry much about the invaders. No free stuff and they head elsewhere.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/19/2024 14:46 Comments || Top||


Kansas City mayor accuses governor of racial 'dog whistle' for calling Super Bowl parade shooters 'thugs'
[FoxNews] Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says he sees racial dog whistles 'time and again'.
As ‘tis said, if you’re the only one who can hear the dog whistle, perhaps you’re the dog.
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas accused Missouri Gov. Mike Parson of using a racial "dog whistle" when referring to the suspected shooters at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade as "thugs."

Lucas made the comment during an appearance on local radio show "Up to Date" on Friday. He told KCUR host Steve Kraske that he has seen similar incidents of alleged racism "time and again."

Following the shooting, Parson had said, "We can't let some thugs just take over and ruin what happened."

"I have respect for the governor. We get along well," Lucas told Kraske. "I disagree strongly with how he would describe that situation. I certainly do think this was criminal activity. It was lawlessness, and I think that that's troubling. But ‘thugs’ is a dog whistle in the most classic sense."
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/19/2024 00:02 || Comments || Link || [42 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  All blue cities? I am shocked. This must surely be fake news (sarc).
Posted by: JQC || 02/19/2024 9:57 Comments || Top||

#2  If you hear the whistle, you must be the dog. That's how it works.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/19/2024 10:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Nogs being nogs.
Posted by: Vinegar Greque3942 || 02/19/2024 10:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Those are his voters, after all...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/19/2024 10:41 Comments || Top||

#5  noun

1 - A cutthroat or ruffian; a hoodlum.

2 - One of a group of professional criminals, devotees of Kali, who robbed and murdered travelers in northern India until the mid-1800s.

3 - One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.


I believe its a very apt description. Unless the perps were of sub-continent India, it thus wasn't related to race. Thank you mayor for unquestionably showing us you are the real racist. Given the shooting's location, its very Kansas City.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/19/2024 11:10 Comments || Top||

#6  So the Good Mayor confirms the shooters are teenaged Blacks.

"Hey let's go to the civic pride celebration of back-to-back Super Bowls!"
"Just a second, let me get extra strapped, someone may say something about my shoes."

Blacks: stop stereotyping us
Also Blacks:

But since it is Black History Month - who is Kamela Harris', who is not Black, favorite living rapper, and what was his 'music brand'?

If you said Tupac Shakur's Thug Life, come collect your Brandon Bucks.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/19/2024 13:31 Comments || Top||

#7  This is the latest "dog whistle" shooter, in the Burnsville MN shooting yesterday, but the genre seems similar
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/19/2024 13:32 Comments || Top||

#8  February
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/19/2024 13:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Kansas City, come for the barbecue, stay because you were murdered.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/19/2024 15:24 Comments || Top||

#10  And speaking of... all that stuff...

Doom and Dust, or, Down Like Donkey Kong!

As tension with China was tightening...
"Predictable, ain't it?"
"But frightening!"
"It's just what we do
In Amerikka, too,
Comrade: knock down the block
And rebuild for the flock.
Same old socialist shlock..."
[bluish lightning]
Posted by: Marilyn Angeath4127 || 02/19/2024 20:54 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Americans are getting de-banked, but some companies are fighting back
[Return] Recently, on Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update Host Colin Jost made fun of Donald Trump for saying he was going to fight ’de-banking.’ "I don’t know what the hell de-bank means," he said to the raucous applause of the clapping seals in the audience. Unfortunately, for a growing number of Americans not lucky enough to attend Harvard or marry Scarlett Johannsson like Jost, de-banking and de-platforming are becoming a terrifying reality. However, a new event in Vegas seeks to fight back and help the people and companies being silenced.

It’s a tactic being used by elites to silence law-abiding citizens who hold dissident and contrarian beliefs. You wake up and discover you're not allowed to use regular banking services, accept credit card payments, host a website, or email your subscribers. It was weaponized during the lockdowns to shut down anyone who questioned the orthodoxy.
Or discover that you and your sons are no longer allowed to do business in New York.
Fortunately, people and companies are offering solutions to counter this trend. David Ragsdale is one of the most vehement voices in organizing a resistance to this techno-tyranny. A lifelong Angeleno, he became involved with helping to organize the "Defeat the Mandate’ rallies around the country. For the crime of peacefully assembling, the organization was immediately deplatformed.

I spoke with Ragsdale to learn about censorship and his plan to fight it.

"When we were doing Defeat the Mandate, we got de-platformed from a lot of B to B services, and our payment processors. We would join MailChimp and immediately get kicked off. You need these services to produce events," he explains.

"It was really scary because we had a permit from the Biden administration to do our Lincoln Memorial rally, but we can’t use Stripe?"

Instantly, the organization was thrown into what is being called the parallel economy, where political refugees are now forced to try to survive outside the normal financial institutions like banks and credit cards people take for granted.

In this exile, Ragsdale decided there had to be a way for companies and individuals to unite and help each other. This hope was the genesis for RePlatform, a conference taking place in Las Vegas, March 8-10th. It seeks to assemble a group of innovators, including inventors, financial institutions, payment networks, developers, investors, entrepreneurs, and creators, to develop practical solutions that address the challenges of inefficiency, stagnation, and censorship in corporate America.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/19/2024 02:25 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wire - Glenn Beck Sounds Alarm On New Censorship Effort Targeting ‘New Climate Denial’

BlazeTV founder Glenn Beck is sounding the alarm on a new push to demonetize and censor even more content concerning climate change, with specific targets including BlazeTV and Daily Wire host and author Jordan Peterson.

A controversial British group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which has reportedly already worked with the White House, is pressuring Big Tech companies in the U.S. to target so-called “New Denial” of climate change.

This would include discussing information that challenges the left-wing narrative on the impacts of “global heating,” suggesting that some policies billed as climate solutions “won’t work,” and arguing that “climate science and the climate movement can’t be trusted,” a report from The Independent highlighted.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/19/2024 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Colin Jost: "I don’t know what the hell de-bank means,"
Predictable from a Harvard graduate.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 02/19/2024 11:59 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
HPSCI report concluded Russian government wanted Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, to win 2016 election and that CIA Director John Brennan had manipulated 2017 "Intelligence Community Assessment," or ICA,
[Townhall] This week has been hellacious. And there was more damning evidence released regarding the Russian collusion hoax, where Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Alex Gutentag unearthed new details showing how this scheme was hatched long before disgraced FBI officials Peter Strzok, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe greenlit the counterintelligence probe that was once considered the starting point for this corrupt wild goose chase. The CIA already had over two dozen Trump associates pegged for surveillance illegally, and they roped in the intelligence services of our top allies to help.

Now, we have a former White House staffer who alleges he read the intelligence report compiled by House investigators, which shredded the core of the Russian narrative. This individual also divulged two possible locations for this report since there’s now a treasure hunt to find these incriminating documents that the spook community has tried to keep buried. The trio wrote about how the CIA cooked the books for the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) to pivot away from what the evidence was concluding, which was that Moscow wanted Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election, not Donald Trump (via Public) [emphasis mine]:

Around 10 a.m. on a Saturday in August 2018, someone made the extraordinary decision to show a White House staff member a top-secret report written by investigators working for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), which is universally pronounced as “hip C.”

The still-secret, never-released HPSCI report concluded that the Russian government wanted Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, to win the 2016 election and that then-CIA Director John Brennan had manipulated a January 2017 “Intelligence Community Assessment,” or ICA, which had come to the opposite conclusion.

[…] The former White House staffer did not want to say who brought him into the HPSCI SCIF to read the report. They did so secretly. There is no record of him reading the report.

“About one-quarter of HPSCI staff are former intelligence officers,” he said.

The authors of the 50-page HPSCI report brought it to him and left it with him to read for the next 90 minutes. Asked to recount the exact title, the man wasn’t sure but then added, “It was something like “Staff Report on the January 6, 2017, Intelligence Community Assessment, ‘Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections.’”

“It was clearly something they had put a lot of time into,” he explained. “It was refined and polished. There was a main text. There were sidebars. A sidebar would be a parallel discussion or analysis. This wasn’t just an essay. It was a finished product. It was formatted and footnoted with a cover page.”

[…] Pressed further, he said, “They were pleasant, introverted people. Not political hacks. Professionals. Somewhat wonky and nerdy.”

What the HPSCI staff report showed was that the former CIA Director Brennan had manipulated the ICA.

[…] Why was the report never released?

“My understanding was the HPSCI Chairman at the time, Devin Nunes, was waiting for the Trump administration to release FISA warrants against Trump campaign officials before he released this report. They couldn’t get any traction in getting it cleared by the CIA, and given that it was a Republican administration, they thought the Trump administration could get it out.”

Added the man, “I’m sure there’s a copy [of the HPSCI report] at the CIA. In theory, there are still copies in the HPSCI SCIF.”

There’s a binder that airs all the dirty laundry regarding this rogue operation out there, compiled during the Trump administration by House investigators. That file is missing, but it’s keeping the IC up at night. Some sources told this trio of reporters—Gutentag, Taibbi, and Shellenberger—that the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid might have been influenced by this document, with federal agents speculating that it might have been stored at the former president’s Florida residence.

The staffer also said this unreleased HPSCI (“hip C”) report did include that the ICA, which was taken as gospel by the CIA, Democrats, and the liberal media, relied heavily on the Steele Dossier, an opposition research project funded by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former MI6 spook. It was a document that was also brimming with Russian disinformation and bad intelligence. It also said, unsurprisingly, that the intelligence for the CIA’s Trump-Kremlin narrative was weak, and it was forced into the final draft by Brennan despite objections from other CIA officers. The rushed product—the CIA wanted this report released before Obama left office—did not follow department protocols.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [46 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Is the FBI a Domestic Terror group?
Posted by: 3dc || 02/19/2024 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  If it walks and quacks like a duck...
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/19/2024 10:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Based on how she facilitated the Skolkovo Innovation Center and Uranium One she might as well have swapped her Reset button for a For Sale sticker.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/19/2024 15:30 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Translation error?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/19/2024 18:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
‘Suspicious Reversal:' DOJ Backs Down from Massive Fraud Case Against Dem Megadonor Dish CEO, BlackRock
[Breitbart] FCC insiders are raising concerns over the Justice Department’s sudden push to settle a multi-billion dollar fraud lawsuit against Democratic megadonor Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network and BlackRock, just before they were set to be deposed.

Last year, Elon Musk tweeted that Dish Network CEO and major political donor Charlie Ergen “is trying steal” wireless internet through his lobbying. He previously accused Ergen of engaging in “sneaky moves” at the FCC. Musk was criticizing Ergen’s failed lobbying and lawfare efforts to have the government punish SpaceX who was competing for spectrum.

A Senior FCC official told Breitbart News he is raising alarm bells over what he calls “a suspicious reversal by the Justice Department” to protect Ergen, as well as executives at Blackrock, to prevent them from testifying about allegedly fraudulent conduct in a wireless auction.

Under FCC regulations, the agency grants discounted “bidding credits” to small businesses called “designated entities” in wireless spectrum auctions. In 2015, Dish Networks — hardly a small business with a valuation over $25 billion at the time — with backing from BlackRock-financed Northstar Wireless and SNR Wireless who went on to win the auctions, describing themselves as “”very small businesses”. These credits were worth $3.3 billion dollars and pushed out legitimate smaller businesses out of the auction.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/19/2024 05:52 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Following Ergen's successful launch of the company's third high-power satellite, EchoStar III (this one from Cape Canaveral, Florida), on October 5, 1997, the company signed up its millionth customer. In 1998 Ergen sued Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for $5 million when Murdoch backed out of a merger in 1997 between Murdoch's ASkyB satellite service and Ergen's company. Ergen eventually forced News Corporation to turn over satellite assets after alleging misconduct by Murdoch regarding the planned merger. That year probably marked the beginning of Ergen's long-standing public feud with Murdoch.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 02/19/2024 11:53 Comments || Top||


Hillary Clinton claims Trump would pull US out of NATO
[Washington Examiner] Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that former President Donald Trump would seek to pull the United States out of its NATO alliance if he wins the 2024 presidential election.

Clinton, a Democrat who unsuccessfully ran against Trump during his first presidential bid in 2016, said that a Trump reelection would spell disaster for the 31-member military alliance. Clinton made the remarks during a Saturday luncheon at the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of world leaders in Germany.

"He will do everything he can to become an absolute authoritarian leader if given the opportunity to do so," she said, according to NBC News. "And he will pull us out of NATO even though the Congress passed a resolution saying that he couldn’t without congressional support, because he will just not fund our obligations."

Clinton spoke of a "long struggle" ahead of the November election and said that voters should take what Trump says "literally and seriously."

"He means what he says," the former first lady said. "People did not take him literally and seriously in 2016. Now he is telling us what he intends to do, and people who try to wish it away, brush it away, are living in an alternative reality."

Clinton, who served from 2009 to 2013 as former President Barack Obama’s first secretary of state, made the remarks in the wake of Trump telling attendees of a political rally that as president
...back in 2019, I believe...
he warned NATO allies that he "would encourage" Russia "to do whatever the hell they want" if they were delinquent on their financial commitments to the alliance.

"You don’t pay your bills; you get no protection. It’s very simple," Trump said during a rally in South Carolina.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/19/2024 02:56 || Comments || Link || [44 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Out of NATO. Out of Syria. Out of the UN. How soon can we begin ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/19/2024 3:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Hillary Clinton claims Trump would pull US out of NATO

Hillary compaigning for Donald?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/19/2024 3:07 Comments || Top||

#3  When Bill and Hillary first ran for governor of Ark. they first came to a college at my university for volunteers to help. The college started out far left in the Vietnam war but by the time she and bill came for free help they were down to nuts, drug addicts and LGBQ nothing else. (so idiots and gay idiots ) ... That's been their core since day 1.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/19/2024 3:38 Comments || Top||

#4 
The NATO has 31 nations and the EU has 37.

22 nations are members of both NATO/EU.

So can't they take care of themselves and save US Taxpayers and butt load of money? Thus keeping the soon to be needed military and equip here to defend the USA Borders when Trump takes Office?

PLUS
There is the growing Muslim population of and political control of EU Member Nations? Which in itself will generate a Major Internal Security conflict.


BTW: A more current Hillary Photo
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/19/2024 6:15 Comments || Top||

#5  If he’s getting us out of NATO I’ll vote for him several times.

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Xyz || 02/19/2024 6:56 Comments || Top||

#6  The American people are done playing Super Man.
Posted by: Angealing B. Hayes4677 || 02/19/2024 8:27 Comments || Top||

#7  I’m honored.
Posted by: Xyz || 02/19/2024 8:48 Comments || Top||

#8  We are planning on it...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/19/2024 9:50 Comments || Top||

#9  US out of UN. UN out of US. If a country has no north atlantic coastline they dont belong in NATO.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 02/19/2024 10:33 Comments || Top||

#10  ^This!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/19/2024 12:01 Comments || Top||

#11  Nevermind the switch from a defensive to offensive posture (say what you will with War on Terror, it was at least framed as a defensive mission), that pre-emptive nuclear strikes was even given the time of day?

OK.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/19/2024 13:49 Comments || Top||

#12  Hillary testing the waters again? You know she wants to run again. That lust for power never leaves some people. Part of me thinks it would be funny. But then, she's just as ugly as ever and it would be disgusting.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/19/2024 13:52 Comments || Top||

#13  Hillary is a possibility for the campaign switch if Michelle isn’t up for the grind of kissing up to people.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/19/2024 14:51 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden's green energy plan is a gift to China, experts warn, amid fears Beijing could plunder more than $100billion from US taxpayer under scheme designed to BOOST American manufacturing
Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Democrats have hailed flagship green energy legislation for revitalizing the American renewables industry, but there are fears it is playing into China's hands

  • The scheme offers uncapped tax credits to firms investing in green energy, but does not block foreign companies from accessing the pot of US taxpayer money

  • Data shared with DailyMail.com shows China is already involved in a dozen such projects, prompting warnings Beijing could profit from billions in US cash
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/19/2024 00:30 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  It’s almost like Joe is a compromised asset of the CCP.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/19/2024 15:22 Comments || Top||


Liz Cheney Won't Rule Out 2024 Presidential Run
[Breitbart] Delusional
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Sunday on CNN’s "State of the Union" that she was not ruling out a presidential run to keep former President Donald Trump out of the White House.

Anchor Jake Tapper said, "You still haven’t ruled out a presidential run of your own in 2024, as far as I know. Are you still considering it, or what do you rule it out?"

Cheney said, "I haven’t made any decisions about it yet. I’m going to do whatever is necessary to defeat Donald Trump."

Tapper said, "But if it came down to you, not running, and it’s Biden versus Trump, you would you would support Biden?"

Cheney said, "I’m not going to make any announcements or endorsements this morning, but the most important thing is to defeat Donald Trump. And I’ll do whatever, whatever it takes to do that."

Tapper asked, "On Saturday, voters, Republicans in South Carolina have to go to the polls. They have a choice between Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. I assume you would support Nikki Haley?"

Cheney said, "Yeah. I mean, again, I am not making any endorsements, but I don’t think that that’s a hard call at all."
Posted by: Frank G || 02/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [41 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Do I see a plan in the making to spread the (R) voters across many candidates to give Biden/M. Obama some chance?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/19/2024 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  There will only be one official Republican candidate. She could run as an "independent," but I don't think that will appeal.

This is just talk from a big talker.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/19/2024 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Suckers don't deserve money. She calculates that there are still more Anyone-but-Trump dollars to be had.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/19/2024 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  President of what, might I ask?
Posted by: Cesare || 02/19/2024 8:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Who is even asking her to run?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 02/19/2024 8:52 Comments || Top||

#6  "(R-WY)"

Tells me everything I need to know about the RNC.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/19/2024 8:56 Comments || Top||

#7  to be fair, I won't rule out a 2024 Presidential run either. :)

Posted by: Vespasian Sherens8039 || 02/19/2024 9:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Just another grift.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/19/2024 9:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Please! I'm begging you. Run, run on the dem and the republican ticket...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/19/2024 9:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Cheney has pretty much ruled herself out of everything. She is a dangerous duplicitous evil doofus. Not even fit for dog-catcher.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/19/2024 10:03 Comments || Top||

#11  "I’m going to do whatever is necessary"
Have you thought about public self-immolation?
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/19/2024 10:09 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ EPA restrictions on emissions
Posted by: Frank G || 02/19/2024 11:49 Comments || Top||

#13  "Don't these people ever give up?" Col Bill Kilgore.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/19/2024 11:56 Comments || Top||

#14  How about a Clinton/Cheney ticket?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/19/2024 13:55 Comments || Top||

#15  The RNC might go for that! I can see Mittens as Secretary of State or something as well. lol
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/19/2024 14:22 Comments || Top||

#16  No, but reality will.
Posted by: Angstrom || 02/19/2024 14:31 Comments || Top||

#17  How can Liz leave us hanging like this?
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/19/2024 15:26 Comments || Top||

#18  My 1$ Money Order remains unmailed
Posted by: Frank G || 02/19/2024 18:33 Comments || Top||


Ohio Republican Senate Candidate Previously Endorsed California-Like Gun Control Laws
[RedState] Ohio entrepreneur Bernie Moreno is currently running to secure the Republican nomination for Senate. The primary campaign is in full swing and the candidate enjoys the endorsement of former President Donald Trump. However, his stance on gun control might be a sticking point for conservative voters in the Buckeye State.

Moreno has spoken out in favor of the type of gun control laws favored by anti-gunner elements on the left. During a 2019 interview, he advocated for state-imposed limits on the number of rounds one can have in a magazine, similar to policies in states like California.

Moreno and the host had a brief back and forth in which they appeared to poke fun at gun owners who wanted to carry too many rounds. Then, the candidate brought up the argument that gun control laws do not protect people because criminals do not obey them, acknowledging that this was "true" while still trying to debunk it.

He countered the argument by noting that "locking my door isn’t going to prevent intruders," but that it "does make you a little safer," and suggested that it will "make it a little bit harder."

After, he made a bizarre comparison to how pornographic material is rated.
If Trump endorsed this guy the other candidates must really be bad.
Wikipedia page for the Ohio 2024 Senate election
Ballotpedia has information on all three Republican candidates:
Matt Dolan (R), Frank LaRose (R), and Bernie Moreno (R) are running in the Republican Party primary for U.S. Senate in Ohio on March 19, 2024.

The winner of the primary will run against incumbent Sherrod Brown (D), who is running for a fourth term.

Dolan is an attorney and state legislator who is running on his legislative record.[1] Dolan says he is the best-positioned candidate to win the general election because his opponents "have routinely broken their promises to voters and committed gaffes that place Republican efforts to defeat Sherrod Brown and take back the U.S. Senate in jeopardy."[2] As of February 16, 2024, four current and two former state legislators had endorsed Dolan.

LaRose is the Ohio Secretary of State and a former state legislator. LaRose says he is the "battle-tested conservative with the experience, work ethic, consistent record, and sense of service to make a difference."[3] LaRose says he is the only candidate to have never lost a statewide primary or election and the only candidate to have never registered as a Democrat.[3] As of February 16, 2024, one member of the U.S. House and six state legislators had endorsed LaRose.

Moreno is a businessman with a background in auto sales. Moreno says he is running because "for too long, the men and women who move Ohio forward, American workers, have been left behind by career politicians like Sherrod Brown and Joe Biden."[4] Moreno compares himself to former President Donald Trump (R), who endorsed him.[5] As of February 16, 2024, former President Donald Trump (R), 11 members of the U.S. Senate, four members of the U.S. House, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R), and Club for Growth PAC had endorsed Moreno.

As of February 16, 2024, The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales, and Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball each rated the general election a toss-up. Brown won re-election 53%-47% in 2018, but other recent statewide elections have favored Republicans. Brown is the only Democrat to hold a statewide elected office in Ohio.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 02/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [42 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So is it really any different to restrict gun ownership in the face of the 2d Amendment than to restrict women voting limited to those with a DD 214 of an honorable or general classification in face of the 19th Amendment?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/19/2024 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I am an Ohio voter. I always vote for the guy that they attack. JD Vance won the award last time. Dolan and La Rose are truly what they are accusing Moreno of being.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/19/2024 15:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Can't hurt to email the guy's campaign and say no vote if he's still a gun grabber.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/19/2024 15:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Moreno will come out with a statement, but this is opo from the party which works against Trump. They did the same to JD Vance. The party folks keep trying to jam Dolan down our throats. He has as much chance as Nikki Haley.
My intention is to give Trump whomever he asks for. He asked for Vance and that has worked out. It does little good to re-elect Trump and install Senators that will continue to work against him. We got a four year serving of that already.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/19/2024 18:15 Comments || Top||



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