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-Lurid Crime Tales-
UC Berkeley employee celebrated attack on conservative: I feel 'so much better'
[WASHINGTONTIMES] An employee at the University of California, Berkeley, is facing backlash after expressing glee online at the news that conservative activist Hayden Williams was attacked on campus earlier this week.

Yuvi Panda, who works as a DevOps architect for Berkeley’s Data Science Education Program, tweeted Wednesday night that the reported attack against a Leadership Institute employee on campus made him feel “so much better.”
Posted by: Fred || 02/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The kind of guy who would crap his pants if somebody's hired muscle confronted him that way.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/24/2019 11:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Beware of Berkeleyites bearing "feelings".
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/24/2019 11:33 Comments || Top||

#3  One of these days, these idiots are going to try this outside of their little havens. And while it won't be pretty, it will be pretty funny.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/24/2019 16:03 Comments || Top||

#4  We crushed Berkeley Antifa 2 years ago. Maybe we should cleanse the campus as well.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/24/2019 18:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Using innocent school children as props, Sen. Feinstein tells Green People to shove it
[Townhall] On Friday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) earned the adoration of some prominent conservatives for pretty much telling a bunch of kids and their parents to pretty much go shove it when it comes to the Green New Deal. Yes, the parents were using their kids as pawns and the group who confronted the California Democrat, the Sunrise Movement, who are pushing lawmakers to back Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) ruinously expensive Green New Deal.

It will cost trillions based on raw estimates, which is the reason why the plan doesn’t have a price tag or tax increase projections. It calls for updating ALL U.S. buildings to be energy efficient, knocking down those, which cannot be saved, transitioning away from fossil fuels within ten years, and culling farting cows. Oh, and the plan includes economic security for those who are "unwilling to work." It’s a whacky left-wing adventure that is nothing but a recipe to destroy the country. Even labor unions aren’t too keen on it. So, how did this confrontation go down? Well, from Sunrise’s perspective, the senator told them to get lost, portraying her as an establishment snob. It’s quite hilarious, though. And folks you’d thought would never like anything Feinstein does, Erick Erickson and Ben Shapiro, became "fans" overnight (via USA Today):
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2019 06:32 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Ice cream, Mandrake. Children's ice cream..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2019 9:48 Comments || Top||


Brennan: Trump ‘Is Not Fit to Serve as President'
[Breitbart] Friday on MSNBC’s "Andrea Mitchell Reports," former CIA Director John Brennan said President Donald Trump was "not fit to serve as president of the United States."

Discussing an open letter published in The Washington Post, by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Brennan said, "I think Adam Schiff captured it well. Mr. Trump is a deeply flawed individual who I think has demonstrated that he is not fit to serve as president of the United States."

He added, "Adam and others, including myself, have been very dismayed at the Republican leaders of Congress and the members of the Republican party who have been reluctant to call Mr. Trump what he is, which is an individual who has demonstrated the lack of ethics, principles, as well as competence. And so I’m hoping that the Republicans are going to be speaking out against him."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2019 01:25 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry you leftest, Deep State, Klingon POS, your puppet Hildebeest somehow lost the election. You, Clapper, Comey, Soetoro, and the rest of your evil, smegma lipped insurrectionists need to get over it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2019 1:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Why am I thinking France 1789?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/24/2019 1:37 Comments || Top||

#3  You were NEVER fit to serve ANY of US you dumb cock.
Posted by: newc || 02/24/2019 2:43 Comments || Top||

#4  I always appreciate the way newc tempers his comments...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2019 3:58 Comments || Top||

#5  The same Brennan who lied under oath to Congress? And then attempted to coordinate a coup?

https://spectator.org/john-brennans-thwarted-coup/
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 02/24/2019 4:20 Comments || Top||

#6  My terse handling of these contentious people has only just began. The hell they have laid out for us and made US pay for is too much for this assholes ego to contain.


How about tempering the Future?

How about GOD rest you deep in hell, Brennan?
Is that Tempered?

My pleasing peoples days are over. Especially people like Brennan. Scumbagoreman

Putting Kenyans into power, being democrat.
You disgusting fucking commie.

Mr "I'm CIA MR BIG PANTS" John.

You, right now, are the most hated Fake SPY in my book, but with your actions, I would say Firing Squad is a diligent option.
What say you fucking democrat piece of fucking shit from hell john boy brennan?

ASSHOLE. Commie, TRAITOR.

"WE" have history.
Posted by: newc || 02/24/2019 6:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Brennan hates that Trump got chosen by the American people to serve as president.

He should probably be serving time.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/24/2019 6:43 Comments || Top||

#8  What's this, his 90th time saying it? Gets really old after a while.
Posted by: Raj || 02/24/2019 7:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Maybe we should adopt the old Soviet method of retirement for their power hungry deep states?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2019 7:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Brennan and the whole venal crew should be sentence to wander in the wilderness for 40 years. The only question is what wilderness?

I'm thing that one of the moons of Neptune should do.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/24/2019 9:08 Comments || Top||

#11  Brennan isn't fit to open his fucking trap. He should have been hung from the nearest streetlamp as soon as he was kicked out.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/24/2019 9:25 Comments || Top||

#12  I still vote for rolling up his prayer rug and shoving it down his throat...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2019 9:46 Comments || Top||

#13  "Yo ho!" sang the merciless men in
The service of Captain John Brennan:
A star and a crescent
Upon a pale pennant,
A serpent his personal pennon.
Posted by: Mad Eye Ebbock5495 || 02/24/2019 10:04 Comments || Top||

#14  SO says a blabbing,blabber, lying, oboz0 female mudslime dog?
That retired on OUR dime? Should have all his Bennies pulled and REdistrubuted, IMO
Posted by: ranture || 02/24/2019 10:37 Comments || Top||

#15  None of Brennan's thoughts are fit to be quoted anywhere. FIFY.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/24/2019 11:23 Comments || Top||

#16  How did someone with judgement so bad that he actually voted for the American communist party ever worm his way into the intestines of Washington. How did he get into the CIA? Some people should be fired for that.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/24/2019 14:22 Comments || Top||

#17  Projection
Posted by: York Harding || 02/24/2019 15:54 Comments || Top||

#18  The Chinese know how to do this. Shoot the sob and then bill his family for the bullet.
Posted by: SR-71 || 02/24/2019 17:26 Comments || Top||

#19  Commie bastard.
Posted by: One Eyed Tsar || 02/24/2019 18:57 Comments || Top||

#20  Raj is most correct. I'd say Brennan is just a parrot but I see no reason to insult parrots
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/24/2019 20:14 Comments || Top||

#21  This guy isnt fit to do anything except swing by his neck - or eat a bullet from the muzzle of a gun in his mouth.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 02/24/2019 22:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Elizabeth Warren Says Reparations for Native-Americans Should Be ‘Part of the Conversation' Today
[Lifezette] One of the 2020 presidential hopefuls, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), expanded on an already-radical proposal on Friday, telling reporters that Native-Americans should be "part of the conversation" on reparations for African-Americans ‐ a move that threatens to bring back her own history with Native-Americans.

Taking questions from reporters ahead of a Democratic Party fundraiser in Manchester, New Hampshire, Warren said America has an "ugly history of racism" and outlined her ways to tackle it ‐ including the possibility of reparations.

"We need to confront it head on and we need to talk about the right away to address it and make change," she said.

Warren had said in a statement to The New York Times this week that "we must confront the dark history of slavery and government-sanctioned discrimination in this country that has had many consequences, including undermining the ability of black families to build wealth in America for generations."

"We need systemic, structural changes to address that," she said.

On Friday, asked whether she would include Native-Americans in her support for reparations, Warren answered, "I think it’s a part of the conversation. It’s an important part of the conversation."

Her fellow 2020 hopefuls Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro have come out in favor of reparations for African-Americans but have so far not gone as far as Warren in opening the door to reparations for Native-Americans.
Shouldn't the descendants of Custer's men get reparations from the Sioux?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tar and feathering is what you should face TODAY.
Dumb bitch
Posted by: newc || 02/24/2019 2:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Dot and feathers ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/24/2019 3:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Lets go with her true heritage: Blood Eagle.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/24/2019 3:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Pemmican. Tobacco. Whiskey. Uh, blankets...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2019 4:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Does she think she's getting a cut of these 'reparations', being a fake Cherokee and all of that?
Posted by: Raj || 02/24/2019 7:15 Comments || Top||

#6  That's my guess Raj. This is just another of her get rich scams.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/24/2019 9:17 Comments || Top||

#7  If there are reparations, somebody will have to manage their distribution. And who is better then a woman who is both a Native American and one of USA's leading legal scholars?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/24/2019 10:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Part of the conversation? Go ahead, dumbass. Talk about it all you want. See how far it gets you.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/24/2019 11:22 Comments || Top||

#9  Actually federal courts have been dealing with just this issue for many decades. It seems the more knowledgeable tribes have been bringing up the issue with respect to treaties the USA madewith various tribes over the centuries, treaties the USA then gratuitously failed to honor. These old disputes are slowly & surely being litigated, money is being appropriated, and checks have been & will be sent out to tribal descendants of those who were basically robbed and cheated so long ago. Circa 2007 my sister & brother each got $12500 from court awards with respect to treaties dating back to 1837. Awards were tax free. I got zero due to red tape. Mother was on the list of recipients, but she died before the awards were finally made & so got zero. Tribes don't call these payments "reparations", but their just due for misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance by the feds.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/24/2019 11:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Sen. Warren's words quoted above indicate her continuing profound ignorance of the realities in "Indian Country".
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/24/2019 11:31 Comments || Top||

#11  I am opposed to negotiating with the tribes as if they were actually nations because their people all have American citizenship and pass through the US without going through customs or immigration. If they are independent, act like they are independent. Oh, and we didn't need to honor our treaties. We invaded and annexed their countries, thus making the treaties invalid. There is no honor or legality in national expansion, and there doesn't need to be.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 || 02/24/2019 11:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Untaxed cigarrettes
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2019 13:30 Comments || Top||

#13 
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

United States Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2)
Oh, and we didn't need to honor our treaties. We invaded and annexed their countries, thus making the treaties invalid. Go tell that to the judges.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/24/2019 14:24 Comments || Top||

#14  Treat them as separate nations. Revoke their citizenship, then declare war and take the rest from them once and for all. They can either be citizens of the United States or they can be a footnote in history books.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/24/2019 16:02 Comments || Top||

#15  Does she think she's getting a cut of these 'reparations', being a fake Cherokee and all of that?

Senator Warren recently admitted that she is not now, nor has ever been, a legal member of any Indian tribe, so she therefore would not be entitled to reparations. Whether grateful tribe members might choose to donate to her campaign fund, a favourite charity, or hire a close friend or relation in some capacity which they are actually capable of fulfilling is an altogether different question.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/24/2019 16:40 Comments || Top||


WATCH: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talks Tax Rates, Suggests ‘$10 Million' Is ‘Enough'
[DailyWire] During her segment, Ocasio-Cortez talked about the Green New Deal, and explained her support for a marginal tax rate of 70% on individuals making more than $10 million a year:

If you make more than $10 million in one year, which is a pretty good year ... your ten millionth and one dollar gets taxed at 70%, which, by the way, we used to have marginal tax rates under Republican presidents of 90%, and it was when we experienced some of the largest rates of economic [growth in the United States].

...It really comes down to the question of, isn’t $10 million enough? Like, when does it stop, right? At what point is it immoral that we’re building Jeff Bezos a helipad when we have the most amount of homeless people in New York City?

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/24/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Its not your call to make bitch.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 02/24/2019 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Power and control, central to all commies. You exist to serve the state and the state's interest.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/24/2019 7:56 Comments || Top||

#3  So where's the incentive to earn those highly taxed extra dollars? I'd imagine the accountants among the commenters are chortling softly to themselves.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2019 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4  And all the pro athletes are cheering her on....or not.

She really is a despicable idiot.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/24/2019 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  A person who claims that $10M is enough typically does not possess the qualities and abilities essential to earn $10M.
Posted by: York Harding || 02/24/2019 9:43 Comments || Top||

#6  The scary thing about AOC is that she is not typical of hers generation - she's one of their best and brightest.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/24/2019 10:47 Comments || Top||

#7  After narrowly surviving the '60s, I learned one thing: the "best and the brightest" -- ain't!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/24/2019 11:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Waiting for Weird Al to put together a "She's Got Betty Davis AOC Eyes" parody.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/24/2019 15:02 Comments || Top||

#9  There's reports she doesn't live in her district. We should keep one liberal around to show everyone how crazy they are. I vote for her to be on display in the capital in a glass jar.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/24/2019 16:04 Comments || Top||

#10  I've been told she has a degree in economics from BU. It's clearly not worth the paper it's printed on.
Posted by: One Eyed Tsar || 02/24/2019 16:54 Comments || Top||

#11  There's reports she doesn't live in her district.

Per Silentbrick, this from today’s New York Post (actually from late yestreday, but it would have appeared in print this morning):

She may be America’s most famous freshman congresswoman, but in New York, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a virtual ghost.

She has no district office and no local phone number, unlike the state’s three other freshman members.

And it’s unclear whether the 29-year-old lawmaker, who represents the Bronx and Queens, actually still lives in the Parkchester neighborhood that has been so closely tied to her rise — even though she won her upset victory over fellow Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley with accusations that his home in Virginia made him too Washington-focused to serve his district.

Ocasio-Cortez has used her deceased father’s Bronx condo on her voter registration since 2012, and even posed in the one-bedroom Bronx flat for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz in a Vogue magazine profile after her stunning November election. But The Post could find little indication she continues to live there.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/24/2019 17:02 Comments || Top||

#12  There is nothing stopping any liberal multi millionaire earner from donating their money to the great cause of big GIVERNMENT. OBama, Oprah, Buffett, Gates... can be the first to donate.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/24/2019 18:14 Comments || Top||

#13  your ten millionth and one dollar gets taxed at 70%,

Let's conduct this experiment on Bezos, Zuck, Dorsey and the Google boys and see what happens.
Posted by: charger || 02/24/2019 18:17 Comments || Top||



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