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21 suspects held by Lebanon for spying on Hezbollah, in what has become ‘nightmare’ for terror group — report
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Government Corruption
'President Trump asks a Looming Question, Who Was Behind the Biden Auto-Pen?
[Last Refuge] At first blush the question seems curious, but when you further think about it the question becomes rather important. If Joe Biden was not cognitively aware of what was happening around the office of the president, then who exactly was controlling the use of his signature via the auto-pen?

In a functioning democracy with a purposefully curious media, the fourth estate would be demanding a congressional investigation to get the answers and context for who was really carrying out the agenda of the Biden administration. Unfortunately, as a nation we lost that ’fourth estate’ a long time ago, and congress is of no help. President Trump:

..."Whoever had control of the "AUTOPEN" is looking to be a bigger and bigger scandal by the moment. It is a major part of the real crime, THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN! Millions and millions of people knew that, but the Radical Left Democrats waged a campaign of inoculation and innocence like none that had ever been waged before. THIS IS WHY THE UNSELECT COMMITTEE OF POLITICAL THUGS, WHO WERE GIVEN A FULL AND COMPLETE PARDON BY THE PERSON WHO WIELDED THE NOW ILLEGALLY USED AUTOPEN, DELETED AND DESTROYED ALL EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION FROM THEIR CORRUPT AND VICIOUS WITCH HUNT AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE, WHOSE LIVES WERE COMPLETELY SHATTERED AND DESTROYED BY THIS HISTORICALLY CRIMINAL EVENT. Remember, it all began with DIRTY COP James Comey, Obama, a hapless and cognitively impaired Sleepy Joe Biden, and my now very famous ACCUSATION that,"THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!" Whoever had control of the Autopen is just the beginning. The biggest crime of all is that THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED! I (MAGA!) WON THE ELECTION BY MILLIONS OF VOTES, AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT. GOD BLESS AMERICA, FOR THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN!!!" (source)


Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 09:50 || Comments || Link || [51 views] Top|| File under:


FBI agents raided a prominent lobbying firm, uncovering alleged links to a Panama-based shell company connected to eight Democratic members of Congress.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Any connection to this story from two days ago?


Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [215 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At some point, we must recognize that the Democratic Party is a criminal enterprise, spanning the period of pre-Civil War to the present. I have no idea how to deal with this.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 05/18/2025 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, the likelihood of a connection certainly exists and begs for investigation.

CIA: Nine U.S. Senators and twelve Representatives are currently under criminal investigation
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 6:44 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 They're both corrupt. Its just that the RINOs are content with doing small country club stuff rather than full blown Grand Thief Auto the Donks enjoy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/18/2025 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Is this Tulsi’s account?
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/18/2025 7:37 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^ Good point. In fact, don't government accounts have a different colored checkmark?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/18/2025 8:04 Comments || Top||

#6  No arrests, no perp walks, no convictions, no prison time.
Just like all the intelligence traitors who Snowden unmasked.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 05/18/2025 9:14 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 Acct in question should have gray checkmark ( pardon my color confusion) but it would appear that is not true acct.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/18/2025 10:23 Comments || Top||

#8  The story may or may not be accurate, but it is not coming from Tulsi who is going after leakers not leaking herself.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/18/2025 11:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Story is a parody account.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/18/2025 15:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doubles down on bizarre refusal to sign resolution condemning Holocaust
[NYP] NYC Socialist mayoral wannabe Zohran Mamdani continued to offer a bizarre excuse Saturday about why he refused to sign a resolution denouncing the Holocaust, and blew off questions about skipping out on a separate resolution celebrating Israel’s 77th anniversary.

The pro-Palestine state Assemblyman from Queens parroted his staff’s response after the firestorm of criticism, insisting he didn’t sign the Holocaust resolution because he’s not co-sponsoring any resolutions in this year’s legislative session.

"This year at the beginning of the year, I told my staff that we would not co-sponsor any resolutions that came into our Assembly office, and that has nothing to do with the substance of the resolution. I’m proud to be a supporter of that resolution," the embattled lawmaker said leaving a mayoral candidate forum hosted by the United Federation of Teachers in Midtown.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 07:18 || Comments || Link || [93 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Wiki - In 2018, Mamdani was naturalized as an American citizen.[5] He is Muslim, practicing the Shia branch of Islam.[58][59] He married Rama Duwaji in early 2025.

But you probably guessed that already.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Based on that, Besoeker, I’ve tagged him as a gov’t of Iran proxy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2025 11:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Looking at Wikipedia: Born in Uganda to ethnic Indian parents. His father is a professor of “colonialism” at Columbia U and chancellor of Kampala International U, while his mother makes films. After graduating from Bronx Science in New York City, he ended up at “almost-Ivy” Bowdoin, where he clearly majored in communist politics, taking up the profession as soon as he returned to The City, where he ran failing campaigns for a number of other socialists before getting it right for himself in 2021 He stands firmly for all the Democratic Socialists of America shibboleths except for that Shiite thing, which suggests Shiism is the thing that really matters to him — I can’t imagine his father, the colonialism professor, cares much for such old fashioned superstitions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2025 21:42 Comments || Top||


California Gov. Gavin Newsom is reportedly considering a presidential run in 2028
I think that’s a brilliant idea. He’ll suck up donor money, suck the oxygen out of the room, then lose devastatingly. How much more fun can we have for free?
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [165 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Newsom has been considering a presidential run since he was in kindergarten. If he does a poll, he’ll find that he’ll carry the same states that Kamala did. The nation does not love lib CA politicians.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/18/2025 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  With his campaign HQ at that French restaurant where he dined during the Fauci Flu plandemic?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/18/2025 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Gavin Newsom Responds to Reports of Palm Springs Explosion
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2025 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 9:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Beto O'Rourke Emerges to Diss Joe Biden for Running in 2024
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2025 9:17 Comments || Top||

#6  How about South Africa? Will South Africa work for you, Bubbe?
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/18/2025 9:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Of course he is. He's F'd up everything he's touched where he is, and needs new things to F' up.
It's his mission in life. That and not ever being held responsible.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/18/2025 10:18 Comments || Top||

#8  #2.
The French Laundry features California cuisine. It's worth a visit but pricey.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 05/18/2025 11:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Dippity Do has acquired a lot of baggage during his stints as governor. All his opponents need to do is talk about his record.
Posted by: Thor Shinetch4084 || 05/18/2025 12:01 Comments || Top||

#10  Oh please oh please oh please
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/18/2025 13:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Remember, this is the democrat party we're talking about!

Democrats are not known for being smart! Or even having a comprehensive thought process.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 05/18/2025 16:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Want to Understand the Modern Democrat Party? Look no Further than Apocalyptic Cults
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 05/18/2025 16:39 Comments || Top||


Newly Released Biden-Hur Audio Captures President''s Stumbles, Mishaps from Special Counsel Interview
[NATIONALREVIEW] Newly released audio from then-President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
's lengthy interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur captures Biden's diminished mental acuity in his failure to recall the year his son Beau passed away, the year his vice presidency ended, the year 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...
was first elected, and why he possessed certain classified documents.

Biden's long pauses and incoherent ramblings in response to light questioning from Hur are apparent in over four minutes of audio first reported by Axios on Friday night. The partial release fulfills expectations that the Trump administration would finally disclose the long-anticipated interview tape after Biden's administration obstructed its disclosure at every turn.

Mistakenly, Biden said in the interview that his son Beau died in 2017 and had to be reminded that he passed away in 2015. Biden also said Trump was first elected in 2017 and had to be corrected that Trump won the presidency in 2016.

''OK, yeah. In 2017, Beau had passed and — this is personal — the genesis of the book and the title Promise Me, Dad, was a — I know you're all close with your sons and daughters, but Beau was like my right arm and Hunt was my left,'' Biden said at one point in the interview audio, with lengthy pauses peppered throughout.

Biden also can be heard stumbling over his words and whispering throughout the audio, two aspects of the interview the transcripts fail to fully capture. Biden struggled to explain why he possessed classified documents, and he veered into rambling, storytelling territory about his decision not to run for president in 2016. Hur interviewed Biden over the course of two three-hour-long sessions on October 8 and 9, 2023.

Courtesy of NoMoreBS:
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… confirm what we already knew.

The State Dept was being run by Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland and Samantha Power. The Clinton and Obama networks, along with their allies in congress and in various political organizations, were being paid and financed through various NGOs and stood up non-profits organized by the beneficiaries of the funding. All of those connections were revealed by the DOGE audits of USAID and other agencies.

Keep in mind that Susan Rice was part of the White House network up to the day Biden announced his intent to run again in 2024; so, she obviously knew his mental state. Others in the White House, again part of the Obama and Clinton networks were running the day-to-day operations. Biden was a figurehead, an avatar for the handlers operating in the background.

The DOJ, Main Justice and the FBI were being run by Lisa Monaco, again an Obama operative. The job at Main Justice was to use their Lawfare strategy to protect the fake and corrupt administration, keep everyone in line and attack all of their political opposition.

Obviously, Jill Biden was/is a power-hungry enabler for the entire dynamic. Sick and twisted people operate like this. Think of all the COVID-19 nonsense this crew carried out in 2021 and 2022, including the vaccine mandate and all of the authoritarian rules that came with the “Biden” COVID response stuff. These are sick people.

Congress, both parties, knew all of this. In fact, the entire Washington DC system was well aware of the cognitive state of mind behind the false presidency.

Biden wasn’t in control of anything – that’s transparently obvious when you listen to the tapes.

The media covered for all of it. They all knew, yet they attacked anyone who dare question the obvious. There is no one associated with the preceding four or five years around the 2020 campaign and administration that followed who did not know of the mental issues. Additionally, they all knew who was running things and they lied to the American people because these are power-hungry psychopaths.

Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [108 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought that the DOJ provided a transcript to Congress. If the tapes don’t match the transcript, that’s a problem.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/18/2025 7:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Likely tapes don't have blackouts, ala Nixon.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2025 7:58 Comments || Top||




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