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-Great Cultural Revolution
Biden, Harris announce new campaign push for LGBTQ support, call members 'a force to be reckoned with'
[FoxNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/11/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [111 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Especially when they are given access to long guns.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/11/2024 10:39 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
'Kamala Harris agrees 2024 could 'genuinely' be the 'last democratic election'
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/11/2024 05:55 || Comments || Link || [223 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  2008 might have been the last "democratic election."
2016 was most likely an anomaly. Election outcomes are now computer generated.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/11/2024 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  'Kamala Harris agrees 2024 could 'genuinely' be the 'last democratic election' cause we won't allow another one if we don't win

FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/11/2024 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, if the demoncrats get their way and win it will be.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/11/2024 8:39 Comments || Top||

#4  I hope she builds a VP library with her college papers available on line.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/11/2024 10:35 Comments || Top||

#5  The matrix wasn't built to handle just how unlikable Hillary! is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/11/2024 12:05 Comments || Top||

#6  this is not a democracy. it is a republic. civics 101.
Posted by: irish+rage+boy || 04/11/2024 12:07 Comments || Top||

#7  ^If you can keep it!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/11/2024 12:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Election outcomes are now computer generated.

You got that right.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/11/2024 12:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Once again equating democracy with the election of Democrats.
Posted by: Throlush Dark Lord of the Nebraskans2736 || 04/11/2024 17:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden's actually looking to fix the border at last
[NYPOST] President Biden is talking about maybe finally doing something about the border — and it only took a bit over three years!

In a Univision interview Tuesday, Biden teased that he’s considering signing an executive order by month’s end
By month's end, eh? Meaning first of May? Six months before the election? Though I'm sure that's just coincidence...
to drastically tighten up the southern border, using authority granted in Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to ban any migrant who crosses illegally from applying for asylum.

But, he says, he’s unsure "whether or not" he has "that power": "Some are suggesting that I should just go ahead and try it. And if I get shut down by the court, I get shut down by the court."

Utter baloney.

The language of Section 212(f) is perfectly clear, granting the power "to suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens" whenever the president "finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States."

Some lower-court judge might find some excuse to overrule that, but most of the Supreme Court can read.

Plus, President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
used it repeatedly, in multiple executive orders — ones Biden rescinded right after taking office.

And the White House leaked heavily back in February that it was looking at executive action on the border, only to back off when the Democratic left erupted.

Instead, Biden decided to pretend he was powerless because Republicans wouldn’t pass a bill spelling out new powers.

Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [219 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No he isn't. He's just PRing
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/11/2024 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  "Biden teased that he’s considering signing an executive order by month’s end"

Ha ha ha ha. What an ass wipe
Posted by: crazyhorse || 04/11/2024 2:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Temporary election ploy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/11/2024 5:23 Comments || Top||

#4 
^#3
nails it.

Its the number #1 Election issue.
Voters are also seriously pissed about the $100's of Billions used to fund Illegal Welfare system, while we have close to 3/4 of million homeless and Vet's not getting proper care.


Whoever, actually running the WH needs to be impeached.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/11/2024 6:28 Comments || Top||

#5  The Manchurian Candidate with Eleanor Shaw Iselin played by Angela Lansbury Jill Biden.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/11/2024 7:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Perhaps he was looking at the sun.

Eye injuries after solar eclipse surge following phenomenon
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/11/2024 8:50 Comments || Top||

#7  That’s usually Joe’s dangle to get more Ukraine money in the pipeline. His strategic soft serve warehouse must be getting low.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/11/2024 10:38 Comments || Top||

#8  No he isn't. Post's check cleared.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/11/2024 10:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Just positioning for the next election. He will promise but do nothing.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 04/11/2024 12:21 Comments || Top||


Biden tells Arizona voters 'Elect me, I'm in the 20th century' in latest brutal gaffe
[NYPOST] President Biden said Wednesday that voters should "Elect me, I’m in the 20th century" — another brutal gaffe that instantly went viral among critics who say he’s too old for another four-year term.

Biden, 81, made the statement during the conclusion of a joint presser in the White House Rose Garden alongside Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

"Why doesn’t everybody holler at once?" the president groused as journalists shouted questions at him, before pausing to answer several queries from news hounds who had not been pre-selected by his press officers.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [146 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Like Billy Pilgrim, Joe is unstuck in time.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/11/2024 10:39 Comments || Top||

#3  OK Looper.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/11/2024 13:02 Comments || Top||


Donald Trump plans to 'green light' Putin's advances in Ukraine and could cut funding altogether, says former head of CIA John Brennan as Zelensky invites the former President to visit Kyiv
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] If you can’t believe former CIA head John Brennan…
And I'm sure Brennan would be the first person Trump would tell.
Precisely. Is Mr. Brennan hinting that the CIA is listening to so many Trump associates that even ex-heads are getting the summaries? Because that will lead to all sorts of interesting repercussions after the new president is sworn in next January…
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/11/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [196 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The only drawback I can is that Zelenski is sure to surface in Israel once Ukraine is done.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/11/2024 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Brennan trying for a Lavrentiy Beria retirement?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/11/2024 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  A former member of the communist party ought to know best.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/11/2024 10:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Since Brennan said it, I automatically disbelieve it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/11/2024 11:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Framing the failure. Goes with the quip the other day about ending weapon transfers (to Israel) in the middle of a war is akin to treason.

Interrupt the grift, in any form or amount, and you are 110% pro death of Ukraine.

Same trick with Covid right? Any questioning at all with the government response or failure to lockstep made you a killer of grandmothers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/11/2024 11:51 Comments || Top||

#6  The only drawback I can is that Zelenski is sure to surface in Israel once Ukraine is done.

My guess would be Miami but maybe you know something I don't. He's the kind of guy, though, who might find certain parts of Argentina attractive...or maybe Paraguay.

But I'm quite certain Brennan will be disappointed if his wet dream of conquering Russia never comes true.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/11/2024 11:59 Comments || Top||

#7  ...And he has 50 other witnesses that were sitting at that very same table!
Posted by: magpie || 04/11/2024 12:18 Comments || Top||


Bizarre moment Texas Democrat calls for black people to be exempt from paying taxes during reparations talk... before saying poor ones don't anyway
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett called for black Americans to be exempt from paying taxes when asked about reparations for slavery.
[Moon gas]
The 43-year-old then went on to suggest it may not succeed because many poorer black people 'aren't really paying taxes in the first place'.
[Texas has no 'income tax'. They will be paying sales tax on everything they purchase. Stolen items are tax exempt.]
Crockett, a liberal freshman in the House who has called Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott's immigration policy 'insane' and that his new laws aim 'to kill people,' made the statement on 'The Black Lawyers Podcast' last week.

When the host axed asked her about reparations - often on many far left politicians and activists wish lists - she made the bizarre suggestion after hearing about the plan from a celebrity and thinking it 'I don't know that that's necessarily a bad idea'.

'One of the things they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time because then again, that puts money back in your pocket,' Crockett explained.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/11/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [234 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's a proposal: everyone who is alive, and can prove they were a slave in America, gets exempt from taxes, 40 acres, and a mule.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/11/2024 10:43 Comments || Top||

#2  An open borders advocate looking out for black people calls Gov Abbott insane.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/11/2024 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3 

Coming from a family with White/Eur-Asia Indentured Slave/Service History (1894-1925) to Mill owners in the Mass.

WHY JUST BLACKS?

At the risk of sounding racist.
At some point this stupid Election year BS has to end.

How can ANY person... White, Asia or Black demand $$$$$ for what their GREAT-GREAT-GREAT Grand Parents indured, from a population that immigranted generations after slavery ended? In fact HAD NO PART IN OR WITH Slavery.


Especially given the percentages of certain groups have been more more than compensated with 5 generations of Gov. Assistance.


So while we still have Semi-"Elected" repersentatives:

How about a Total Tax Code Rewrite & Simplification, so that an avg. 7th grader can understand and do their own taxes with a Dollar Tree hand calculator?

Plus a cap on the total citizen paid taxes, from all sources, (Local, State, & Federal) to less than 20% of Income.


Force Governments to be leaner , not meaner and quit funneling taxpayer $$$$$$$ around.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/11/2024 11:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Demand reparations from the African tribes who sold them.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 04/11/2024 12:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Reparation or repatriation?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/11/2024 12:44 Comments || Top||

#6  So taxes takes my money from my pocket. Do go on.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/11/2024 12:54 Comments || Top||

#7  What she's saying is middle class and above blacks shouldn't have to pay tax. Such as her lawyerly self.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/11/2024 14:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Here's the deal, you want reparations, you forfeit citizenship. You take only your blood money and leave, no other assets. You may never return for any reason under penalty of summary execution.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/11/2024 16:03 Comments || Top||

#9  A long, long time ago, a black syndicated newspaper columnist named William Raspberry wrote a piece about how his great-great-whatever-grandparents were brought to America as slaves and while it sucked for them, he was grateful that it allowed him to grow up in America instead of west Africa which was a bit of a shithole at the time. Anyone expressing such an opinion today would be crucified, but it struck high school student Me as a surprisingly realistic take on the matter.

A principle of tort law is that wrongs should be righted and the victim made whole. If a person feels victimized by their ancestors being removed from their ancestral homeland, then the proper thing to do is return them to Africa with a little walking-around money. As part of the deal, they are no longer an American citizen. Take any personal assets such as money earned or knowledge of a written language, but once gone, you can't come back. Bye!
Posted by: SteveS || 04/11/2024 17:06 Comments || Top||

#10  I remember Raspberry, that was one of the few coherent logical columns he wrote via
Wa Po (IIRC)
Posted by: Frank G || 04/11/2024 18:22 Comments || Top||

#11  They should go hit up Beyonce. She White now.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/11/2024 18:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Foreign terror groups including ISIS and Al-Qaida are renewing calls to attack America and using 'mafia-like' tactics, warns FBI chief Christopher Wray
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] FBI Director Christopher Wray issued a stark warning at an event in Washington DC on Tuesday in which he claimed that ISIS and Al-Qaida have adopted 'mafia-like' tactics as part of plans to launch a new attack on the US.
What does mafia-like mean in this context?
I imagine it references not mafia-like actions by the terror groups, but the FBI's reactive behavior template drawn from past failures in dealing with such coercive nationalist groups of which there are now many. Used as a scare word bugaboo in this context.
Wray was speaking at the American Bar Association luncheon when he made the warning while adding that the FBI is actively working to stop such attacks.
When I hear the term "sorry, crooked, worthless POS" that is pretty much the graphic that my brain defaults to.
I generally consider a mirror.
But that's just me.

As actively as they’re working to protect the nation from PTA moms and Catholic deacons?
'Foreign terrorists, including ISIS, al-Qaida and their adherents, have renewed calls for attacks against Jewish communities here in the United States and across the West in statements and propaganda,' Wray said, according to ABC News.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/11/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [217 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



#3  In response, Wray plans to send FBI agents door to door to confront Trump supporters about their social media posts.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/11/2024 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  As opposed to the "mafia-like" tactics used by the FBI.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/11/2024 14:34 Comments || Top||

#5  And he knows this for a fact because he arranged this?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 04/11/2024 14:36 Comments || Top||



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