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-Short Attention Span Theater-
'The cover-up is astonishing': Ted Cruz says he does NOT think cocaine found in White House belonged to Hunter Biden - but does think it was left by a senior Biden official and questions why culprit has not been identified

Is this how they get rid of Kamala?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2023 06:23 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:



#3  See...visitors.

Wife of top DOJ attorney visited White House 28 days, visitor logs show
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2023 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  'The cover-up is astonishing': Ted Cruz says

Oh really ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2023 7:29 Comments || Top||

#5  If it was in the library, it obviously belonged to Hunter. If it was in anywhere that legitimate works place, it was unlikely that he left it whether or not it was actually his. Where it was found has been obscured purposefully. In any accident or crime, there can be variation in eyewitness memory of the event. Where this bag was found is an objective fact not subject to variation. Where it was truly found is what they will not tell us. One person is claiming that telling us would violate the Hatch Act. These are people paid a salary by us to give us true information. This is a coverup.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/08/2023 8:00 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Is this how they get rid of Kamala?

Certainly worth monitoring.

Had the Secret Service and LE been serious about discovery of ownership, they would have left the stash in place and closely monitored retrieval.

Unless of course, ownership had already been determined.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2023 8:08 Comments || Top||

#7  The variation in bag location(s) proves it's a coverup.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/08/2023 8:09 Comments || Top||

#8  The fact that the cocaine was discovered and announced publicly is amazing in itself.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/08/2023 9:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Shit, now Cruz will be on Hannity 2-3 times this week alone.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/08/2023 10:00 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ They deserve one another.

Will Cruz be queue to encourage Hannity to discuss his martial arts prowess ?



Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2023 10:04 Comments || Top||

#11  RFK Jr has said what we were all thinking, “If my record was as bad as this White House, I would probably give my staff blow too.”
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/08/2023 10:28 Comments || Top||

#12  We the People are waiting of a truck load of promised documents to be released. Scandal & Crime documents from the 1960's, 90's, 2000's & now 2020's.

Face it people....
As long as the DC swamp Owns and Controls the Federal Law Enforcement and the DOJ Legal System, they can and have been doing as they please.

There needs to be a better Check and Balance system that actually holds the DC Swamp to their oath of office and the same laws and taxes we are held to, faced with.

Ever ask yourself... How much of that $30+ Trillion in National Debt made its round about back to various DC & elite pockets?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/08/2023 10:41 Comments || Top||

#13  So do they sit in those Cabinet meetings passing the mirror with the lines and the straws around the room while they try to figure out how to run the government?

Who do they trust with a razor blade to do the chopping?

Or, do they blame Kamala so they can bring Newsom on board and thereby clear the path for Newsom in 2024? I mean, they have to do something. It should be obvious to everyone by now they can't cheat big enough to get either Joe or Kamala across the finish line in 2024.

But then, was Newsom anywhere near the White House last week?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/08/2023 12:07 Comments || Top||

#14  Seems an odd limb to climb out on, Ted...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/08/2023 15:06 Comments || Top||

#15  The security camera in that area will not be working "properly".
Posted by: Slats Snore5077 || 07/08/2023 17:22 Comments || Top||

#16  It should be obvious to everyone by now they can't cheat big enough to get either Joe or Kamala across the finish line in 2024.

They don't care. Too many people are too comfortable to do anything. However, they're just on big nasty black swan event and it collapses, cause very few will die for their power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2023 17:30 Comments || Top||

#17  Joe is not fund raising or campaigning. If they are not paid off, why would his 2020 team not talk?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/08/2023 18:08 Comments || Top||


'This is cringier than most Biden talks': Kamala Harris is ruthlessly mocked for latest 'word salad' as she gets tongue twisted trying to explain 'culture'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The confusing comments came during the Essence Festival of Culture on Friday

  • Aside from falling flat with the New Orleans crowd, the speech sparked scrutiny

  • It was seen on social media - as Twitter users went on lambaste the 58-year-old
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's only one use for her mouth, know what I'm sayin'?
Posted by: Raj || 07/08/2023 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Not even with your parts!

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2023 6:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden, Harris, Fetterman… they might just break CHATGPT.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/08/2023 6:23 Comments || Top||

#4  She has ruined the calculus that allowed for Biden to be removed and replaced easily.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/08/2023 7:50 Comments || Top||

#5  And some don't believe that cocaine belonged to her, hehe.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/08/2023 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  She’ll step down, Newsome will replace her, then Biden will step down.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/08/2023 11:37 Comments || Top||

#7  What deal does she take for stepping down?
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert || 07/08/2023 12:54 Comments || Top||

#8  I'd love to see some mud-slinging between Harris and Biden before she goes down (if she goes down). I mean, she's already called him a racist (as her great-grandfather slave merchant rolls in his grave), and she has a popularity in gutter (like her mind).

Gavin Gruesome might make sense in the Dems' mind, but if people look at California and think that's the way to run a state, then I'll be darned.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/08/2023 13:50 Comments || Top||

#9  She’ll step down, Newsome will replace her, then Biden will step down.

That makes too much sense and involve humility on her part. Which is why I doubt it will happen.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/08/2023 14:30 Comments || Top||

#10  They are all fucking sociopaths, and they don't go down easy, even that pathetic Harris.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/08/2023 14:34 Comments || Top||

#11  ...OK #1.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2023 16:59 Comments || Top||


Economy
Biden Backs Off Wage Protections for Americans Facing H-1B Outsourcing
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden, who recently met with India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is seemingly delaying wage protections for American white-collar workers at risk of being laid off and forced to train their foreign replacements, primarily from India, through the H-1B visa program.

In January 2021, just before leaving office, then-President Trump issued an updated Department of Labor rule to protect the jobs and wages of American professionals and graduates from low-paid foreign H-1B visa workers imported by United States companies to replace them.

“The U.S. Department of Labor is taking these steps to strengthen wage protections, address abuses in visa programs, and protect American workers from being undercut by cheaper foreign labor,” former Labor Department Secretary Eugene Scalia said at the time.

The rule set wage floors so that U.S. companies importing foreign H-1B visa workers would have to do so by paying them at prevailing wage rates. The goal was to stop outsourcing schemes by such companies designed solely to cut labor costs at the expense of Americans.

A report from SHRM.org notes that Biden’s Labor Department, in recent weeks, has moved the wage rule “to its long-term agenda, historically the first step to a proposal being shelved permanently.”

“The gutting of the wage reform is just part of this administration’s plan to please the Chamber of Commerce. American workers be damned,” Kevin Lynn with U.S. Tech Workers, which advocates on behalf of American white-collar professionals facing layoffs and wage cuts as a result of mass legal immigration, told Breitbart News.

The move indicates that the Biden administration is delaying the rule in a win for U.S. companies using the H-1B visa program and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ,which has long opposed pro-American worker reforms to the program.

“Biden ran on a pro-worker platform. The prevailing wage reforms were listed in his policy proposals regarding immigration,” Lynn said. “But what Biden says and his admin actually does are worlds apart because ‘Bidenomics’ is a two-step scam: Claim you’re bringing industries back to America, but then having cheap foreign labor filling these jobs.”

The rule’s delay comes as Biden held a state dinner at the White House for Modi. The H-1B visa program continues to prove profitable for India’s outsourcing lobby, as well as China.

In Fiscal Year 2022, the federal government allowed U.S. companies to import more than 442,000 foreign H-1B visa workers to take white-collar American jobs — more than 85 percent of which arrived from India and China. Men from India were given 76 percent of the H-1B visas allotted to all Indian nationals last year.

For years, Breitbart News has chronicled the abuses against white-collar American professionals as a result of the H-1B visa program. Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train their foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart News.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), in April, found that a company had discriminated against American job applicants in favor of foreign H-1B visa workers whom they could hire more cheaply.

In recent months, Breitbart News reported how Silicon Valley’s biggest tech corporations continued to lay off tens of thousands of Americans as they imported more than 34,000 foreign H-1B visa workers to take U.S. science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs.

Likewise, in February, State Farm announced that it would lay off more than 450 of its American employees in a move that outsources its Information Technology (IT) work to HCL Technologies, an India-based outsourcing firm that imports foreign H-1B visa workers to do much of the work.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  H-1B program originally was to bring in a limited number of foreign workers to fill positions that did not have American workers available to fill. Some where along the way the government changed that drastically to destroy the American middle class instead.
Posted by: Slats Snore5077 || 07/08/2023 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  One of the biggest problems of hiring an H-1B foreign worker to write proprietary software for your company is the code "somehow" makes it back to that workers country, resold to buyers in that country for huge sims to the worker who stole it from the American company he is working for. And they also allow foreigners access to the American company's internal systems through "back doors" over the internet during the middle of the night for another fee. I have seen that happen first hand.
Posted by: Slats Snore5077 || 07/08/2023 1:13 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ .......access to the American company's internal systems through "back doors" over the internet during the middle of the night for another fee. I have seen that happen first hand.

You mean like voting machines? Yes, we may have seen that application as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2023 3:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, we either have a free market or don't and have protectionism. While Americans are graduating with degrees in "Urban History" and "Women's Literature from the 1950's" and want their student loans forgiven thereby throwing out centuries of contract law, foreigners are learning real skills. And if companies accept the risk that any proprietary software (Linux users excepted) makes its way back to the home nation of the H-1B visa recipient, then that's on the company (and in the end, just too g-d damn bad).
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/08/2023 18:26 Comments || Top||


Europe
Top left-wing Finnish politician tries to explain naked Hitler salute picture scandal
[Remix] Antti Lindtman, a favorite to replace Sanna Marin as his party’s chair, told a Finnish tabloid newspaper the embarrassing photographs were not intended for public viewing

A top Finnish politician in the running to replace former Prime Minister Sanna Marin as leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has sought to explain how he came to be photographed stark naked, save a balaclava and Santa hat, with a group of friends giving Hitler salutes.

Antti Lindtman, the current chairman of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group and a member of parliament for the Finnish district of Uusimaa, has admitted to being one of the individuals in a number of resurfaced photos taken when the 40-year-old politician was 18 years old.

The photographs, which show Lindtman and four other individuals posing in Santa hats and full face masks, equipped with replica firearms, and giving the Sieg Heil salute, have been circulated on social media and among the Finnish media since Tuesday. The SDP politician has now commented on the scandal via the Iltalehti tabloid newspaper.

"I am in the picture in the back with a plastic bullet gun in my hand," Lindtman admitted.

"These pictures were not meant to be made public, mainly because we are scantily clad," he told the newspaper, adding that the photographs had been uploaded to a private website more than a decade ago and that Lindtman had asked the site’s administrator to remove the images years ago.

The Finn said of those giving Nazi salutes that they had "obviously gone too far with posing," and insisted the photographs were taken at a Christmas party for his high school film group when he was still a teenager.

"The pictures were taken as a thank you to those who helped us make a short film," Lindtman told the Finnish tabloid newspaper.

"I wasn’t a Nazi sympathizer then, and I’m not now," he insisted. "Even then, I could not have been in favor of the neo-Nazis because of my opinions."

Lindtman took to Twitter on Wednesday accusing saboteurs of manipulating the photographs; however, there is no evidence the photograph has been doctored in any way, and the politician himself has admitted he participated in the photo shoot.

The SDP politician is considered the favorite to take over the chair of his party from outgoing leader Sanna Marin at the party congress in early September.

It is too soon to say whether this scandal will prove fatal for his political ambitions, but it’s safe to assume it won’t help.

Lindtman has been particularly outspoken in his criticism of the newly formed coalition government between the center-right National Coalition Party and the right-wing populist Finns Party.

He condemned Vilhelm Junnila, a member of the Finns Party who has already resigned as a minister of the coalition government after it was revealed he made Hitler jokes and spoke at an event attended by neo-Nazis.

"A country that sends a person known for Nazi sympathies to market Finland to international companies can cause itself genuine reputational harm and damage," Lindtman tweeted last week.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/08/2023 10:05 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can’t get excited about the drunken stupidities of adolescents if no one was harmed by it. Even more so will I not get excited about what someone now middle aged did decades ago.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/08/2023 22:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't get excited, either, but if the shoe were on the other foot, we'd probably never hear the end of it from the Left.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/08/2023 23:45 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Tucker Says Capitol Police Chief Told Him Jan. 6 Crowd Was ‘Filled' With Feds
[Daily Caller] Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson said Friday the Capitol Police chief told him the Jan. 6 riot crowd was "filled" with federal agents.

Carlson obtained more than 40,000 hours of video footage from the riot after Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy handed it over in February. Carlson began airing portions of the footage while he was still anchoring at Fox News.

Carlson sat down with actor Russell Brand on Friday and said he was "appalled" by the violence and vandalism seen on Jan. 6. He said the reason he "got involved in commenting on it" was because "the lying about it was immediate: ’This was a racist, white-supremacist insurrection.'"

"I interviewed the chief of the Capitol Police, Steven Sund, in an interview that was never aired on Fox, by the way — I was fired before it could air, I’m gonna interview him again," Carlson said. "But Steven Sund was the totally non-political, worked for Nancy Pelosi, I mean, this was not some right-wing activist. He was the chief of Capitol Police on January 6, and he said, ’Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that crowd was filled with federal agents.’ What? ’Yes.’ Well he would know, of course, because he was in charge of security at the site."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2023 07:18 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It would be good for him to redo the interview. I am not sure the police chief will be interested in talking again.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/08/2023 8:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Assuming the Police Chief lives to tell his tale.

The Biden's don't play nice.
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 07/08/2023 17:15 Comments || Top||



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