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-Lurid Crime Tales-
RUMINT? Obama Named As First World Leader To Be Prosecuted in Diddy Pedophile Investigation
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… serving a "third term" through puppet president Joe Biden is now sweating bullets as a political scandal of epic proportions threatens to unravel his legacy - and land him behind bars for years to come.

The Democrats threw all norms aside in their relentless lawfare campaign against Donald Trump, desperately trying to imprison him and prevent his return to the White House. But in their haste, they broke a critical rule: the longstanding tradition of not prosecuting former presidents. Now, that door has been swung wide open, and Obama is about to feel the full force of the consequences.

Worse still for him? It’s all on film. The feds have it all, and with the Democrats losing control of the reins in D.C., Obama’s sordid past is finally catching up with him.
Posted by: badanov || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11152 views] Top|| File under:

#1  will it see the light of day?
Posted by: 746 || 12/05/2024 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably not. If the evidence is in the hands of "the feds". we can expect them to bury this.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/05/2024 4:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The FBI blackmail library is only used against their enemies, but anyone can become their enemy eventually.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/05/2024 6:01 Comments || Top||

#4  P. Diddy didn't kill himself?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2024 6:27 Comments || Top||

#5 
Any President will have to make hard choices. But obviously those must be between consenting adults.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2024 6:51 Comments || Top||

#6  doubt there is real evidence here

P Diddy gave expensive and celebrity attendance parties for about 25 years. The parties were typically in two phases, the first more conventional with lots of booze, music, etc. The second with only a few of the attendees and having drugs, sex and so forth. Obama may have attended one or more of the but probably didn't stick around for the second phase of the party. So there will be video of Obama at P Diddy's parties and video of awful stuff at P Diddy's second phase parties.

This is, in a way, similar to the Epstein way of doing things with a conventional luxury villa experience for many and a drug/sex experience for a smaller group. T
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/05/2024 9:31 Comments || Top||

#7  #7^

Given how the Left slapped Trump with anything, why not Obama?

OH! That's right, the Liberals, Socialists and Democrats hold themselves to a much lower standard, than they demand of others.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2024 9:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Man, I'm from the twitter ecosystem and all the Rantburg links I clicked today lead me back to the twitter. We have a saying over there: We are the news now. Kek
Posted by: mossomo || 12/05/2024 14:24 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ 3DC loves him some X/Twitter. I'm not a member and barely know how to navigate it ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 12/05/2024 14:32 Comments || Top||

#10  PsyOp question-If there are going to be genuine revelations of past misconduct by those currently in power as Trump et al take over, wouldn't now be the time to flood the public forums with countless credible and increasingly incredible fakes, chaff, nothing-burgers and trivialities to deeply muddy the waters? The court of public opinion is diluted when every genuine assertion can be countered with evidence of similar themes shown to be specious. You can't change facts but you can make it hard to be certain you actually have them!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/05/2024 15:14 Comments || Top||

#11  You can't change facts but you can make it hard to be certain you actually have them!

That's a problem for those relying upon 'legacy media'. Those of us who've been in the internet jungle have been cutting through the brush for a good while.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/05/2024 16:07 Comments || Top||

#12  I think the revelations will happen. In his first term of chess, Trump was a king with very few pieces and he was always in check by Muller and various impeachment stuff. Those pieces are off the table. The MAGA folks are engaged. He has staffed up with competent people that are loyal to him. He, Musk and RFK Jr have made a bunch of statements and expect to be held accountable.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/05/2024 16:16 Comments || Top||

#13  "Barry Soetoro, better known by his CIA name Barack Obama"

Most excellent !
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/05/2024 16:42 Comments || Top||

#14  I laughed.

In other rumor, also Oprah, that was a few weeks back and haven't heard anything since, but of course not.

Could we dare live long enough to see P. Diddy become the greatest anti-hero in world history?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/05/2024 16:59 Comments || Top||

#15  ...could Diddy?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/05/2024 17:22 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Kamala getting divorced UPDATE: RUMINT
[X] No White House, her career up in smoke at best, and his dirty laundry revealed to the world, which isn’t going to help his legal and professorial careers. Also, there’s that whole sucking up to the Jew-haters thingy. Good political spouse support only goes so far.

Update at 3:00 p.m. ET: A quick search of the internet reveals no serious articles on the subject, including nothing at all on Rantingly, Bongino, and Instapundit. So it could be true, but there’s no evidence yet.

Posted by: 3dc || 12/05/2024 06:53 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is the cause because kamala treated her husband the same way she treated her staff?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/05/2024 9:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Who cares?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2024 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I guess She blew that marriage.


Snark O'The Day
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2024 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Snark O' The Day right there!
Posted by: Raj || 12/05/2024 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  But remember his long kiss with Jill Biden
Posted by: 3dc || 12/05/2024 10:53 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Gag me with spoon.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/05/2024 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  No evidence yet on the internet, so is downgraded to RUMINT.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/05/2024 15:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Hope she can take a punch
Posted by: Frank G || 12/05/2024 18:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Good one NN2N1 - rated accurate.

Honestly:
Was afraid this and coming out as a larpsian was going to be October strategy, and glad they didn't.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/05/2024 20:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Who's running the clown show in Washington? Obama? Samantha Powers? Jake the Snake? No one?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/05/2024 21:51 Comments || Top||


The 'bison skull mountain' photo that reveals the US's dark history
[BBC] The photo of two men standing on a mountain of bison skulls is well known as a symbol of hunting during the colonisation of the US. But there's a more sinister story behind it – with a surprising modern message.

Two men in black suits and bowler hats pose with a gravity-defying mound of bison skulls. The 19th-Century image is disturbing – thousands upon thousands of skulls piled in neat rows, towering towards the sky. But beneath the macabre first impression, the photo holds a darker secret still. These skulls aren't just the product of overzealous hunting in the US – and those men aren't hunters, either.

The skulls, experts say, are the evidence of an organised, carefully calculated campaign to eradicate the bison, deprive Native Americans of a vital resource, and drive the few communities that survived onto small reservations where they could be controlled by the newly arrived white settlers.

"This image is an example of colonial celebration of destruction," says Tasha Hubbard, a Cree filmmaker who is an associate professor at the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada. Hubbard describes the extermination of the bison as a "strategic" part of colonial expansion. The eradication of the animal "was seen as the taming of the West, of domesticating this wild space that was needed in order for expansion of settlement".

The colonial mass slaughter of bison dealt a lasting blow to tribes that relied on the animal for sustenance. In the aftermath, nations reliant on bison fared measurably, permanently worse than nations that were never bison-reliant, for example suffering from higher child mortality than those other nations, according to a comparative study. The study concludes that the loss set the bison nations on a fundamentally different trajectory that continues to this day.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Early Jets fans.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/05/2024 6:04 Comments || Top||

#2  The colonial mass slaughter of bison dealt a lasting blow to tribes that relied on the animal for sustenance.

Destroying their traditional* way of life.

*Traditional since whites brought horses to Americas.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2024 6:07 Comments || Top||

#3 
Side note: Based on a quick peek there about
There are 92 Million heads of beef cattle/ milk cows in the US.

There is about 1 beef animal for every 3.5 person in the US.

So we produce several of those skull mountains each year.

I am not ashamed to admit it.
I love a good med-Well cooked steak.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2024 6:32 Comments || Top||

#4  ...and drive the few communities that survived onto small reservations

At roughly 17,544,500 acres, the Navajo Nation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States, exceeding that of ten U.S. states. - wiki
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/05/2024 8:09 Comments || Top||

#5  The only difference between the Indians and Settlers of that age were the weapons!
Posted by: Glealing and Tenille2472 || 12/05/2024 10:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Unlike the wasteful white man, indigenous people lived in harmony with nature.

Buffalo jump
A buffalo jump, or sometimes bison jump, is a cliff formation which Indigenous peoples of North America historically used to hunt and kill plains bison in mass quantities.
Hunters herded the bison and drove them over the cliff...
Many of the animals did not end up getting harvested. Most would rot or go to waste simply because of the effort involved in harvesting so many dead or dying animals quickly enough to beat the onset of rotting would not have been possible with the tools available to tribal peoples.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/05/2024 10:44 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Less than %1 of Federal workers show up at work except for maintenance and guards
[X]
Posted by: 3dc || 12/05/2024 11:55 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  First major DOGE directive to Musk and Vivek revealed as they meet with lawmakers

"the REMOTE Act, will use software to monitor bureaucrats' computer use and require agency reports on the adverse impacts of telework."
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/05/2024 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2  NYP, not a fan. But this is a damning report.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/05/2024 20:32 Comments || Top||


Democrats pressed Capitol Police to show favoritism to officer who killed J6 protestor, memos show
[JTN] Scumbags all
The committee’s investigation uncovered evidence that the Capitol Police went to extraordinary lengths to promote Byrd and provide him financial support not received by other officers on duty on Jan. 6.

House Democrats pressured U.S. Capitol Police to provide special financial assistance and even a promotion to the officer who fatally shot unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 riot, resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer and charitable assistance not provided to other officers, according to internal emails reviewed by Just the News.

"He is very upset about how he is being treated. He wants us to figure this out and now," a top congressional aide to then-House Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, wrote to Capitol Police in November 2021 pressing for more assistance to Lt. Michael Byrd after he killed Babbitt.
File
2021.11.18 - Chairman was speaking with.pdf

The records show that pressure also came from then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff and from then-Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, causing Capitol Police to find any solution they could to make Byrd and Democrats happy. Despite the extraordinary assistance, Byrd expressed dissatisfaction and continued to insist he deserved more, to the chagrin of Capitol Police officials, according to records assembled by Congress.

"We play the game as you request and then once we’re in compliance You guys change the rules on us," Byrd wrote to U.S. Capitol Police General Counsel Thomas DiBiase in November 2021 after being informed he wouldn't be able to immediately access charitable funds from a memorial fund for fallen or wounded officers.
File
2021.11.16 - Re Memorial Fund (play the game).pdf

The department's chief later told Byrd he would not be offered any further assistance from the memorial fund, but Capitol Police instead helped set up a GoFundMe that landed Byrd more than $160,000 in extra funds. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D- Calif., was one of the many progressives who donated to and promoted the fundraising.

The revelations were uncovered during probe by Chairman Barry Loudermilk’s House Administration Oversight Subcommittee into the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) and follow findings that Byrd has a significant disciplinary record that resulted in six referrals to the USCP’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

At least one of these incidents resulted in a referral to a prosecutor and others ended with temporary suspensions, Just the News reported earlier this month.

"In addition to USCP’s decision to promote Byrd despite his disciplinary history, I also have concerns about the decisions USCP made with respect to Byrd after January 6, 2021," Loudermilk wrote in a letter to current USCP Chief Thomas Manger, previously published by Just the News.

Loudermilk told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show that it is understandable that House Democratic leadership would want to ensure that Byrd was well taken care of considering he did end up unfortunately taking a life, but that their calls for assistance for the then-lieutenant went above and beyond other officers.

"[They] went to extremes, to where they gave bonuses to officers who are on the front line of the battle, that was a few thousand dollars—Byrd gets one of $37,000 okay, it's not equally played," Loudermilk said.

"I think people should really be considering the earlier question, which is whether he should have been on the force," the chairman said referring to the now-captain’s lengthy disciplinary record.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/05/2024 11:45 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Scandal-ridden Illinois mayor loses township supervisor nomination in historic caucus
[Foxnews] Dolton 'supermayor' Tiffany Henyard is running for re-election

Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard will be losing some of her political power after a historic caucus Tuesday night.

The Illinois "super mayor" lost the Democratic nomination for Thornton Township supervisor, a position Henyard currently holds. Henyard’s name was not even on the ballot because she did not have a certified assessor on her ticket. All nominees are required to have eight people on their slate: supervisor, highway director, clerk, assessor, and four trustees.

Instead, Illinois state senator and Thornton Township Democratic committeeman Napoleon Harris overwhelmingly won the nomination. The caucus and its results enraged Henyard later that night.
Tiffany Henyard collage

"You didn't run none of this the right way," Henyard was heard saying after the caucus. "Illegal, Napoleon."

As committeeman, Harris made the decision to move from a primary to a caucus, the first caucus Thornton Township’s Democratic Party has had in decades. The party also announced that night that supervisor nominees cannot run for other positions.

Harris denied the process was unfair and insisted voters had their say.

"People in Thornton Township may be new to caucuses because they haven't had them in a while, but this has been the tradition for many other townships around the state," Harris said.

Henyard can still be on the ballot in April for Thornton Township supervisor as a write-in or independent candidate, but so far, she has not shown any indication of running that way. However, after losing the nomination, Henyard was heard shouting that she would be suing everyone involved in the process.

Fox News Digital reached out to Mayor Henyard’s office for comment.

Henyard is currently running for re-election as Dolton mayor as she faces several ongoing scandals for allegedly embezzling funds and politically targeting her opponents. Her office also faced an investigation by former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Lightfoot’s investigation into the Village of Dolton’s financial situation revealed in a preliminary report that Dolton's general fund balance was $5.61 million in 2022, but by May 2024 the balance had dropped to a deficit of $3.65 million.

Lightfoot also disclosed that Henyard used the village credit card to make purchases at Amazon, Target, Walgreens, Wayfair and other retailers. One jaw-dropping statement revealed that the embattled mayor had dropped $33,000 on Jan. 5, 2023, on Amazon.

Posted by: Frank G || 12/05/2024 04:53 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


A DOJ Prosecutor Targeting a Transgender Medicine Whistleblower Was Just Taken Off the Case
[Townhall] The prosecutor going after Dr. Eithan Haim, a transgender medicine whistleblower, has been recused from the case after information showed a major conflict of interest surrounding her family’s involvement in the hospital system at the center of the case. .

To recap, in 2022, Texas Children’s Hospital was exposed for pushing "transgender medicine" on children, which encompasses puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and sex reassignment surgeries. Predictably, backlash ensued.

Following the backlash, executives at Texas Children’s claimed that the gender clinic would be shut down. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
with the help of a whistleblower, City Journal revealed that several doctors at the center continued to secretly provide this care.

A surgeon, Eithan Haim, bravely contacted the outlet to share that the hospital had lied about terminating the children’s transgender medicine program. These services, he claimed, including irreversible surgeries, were being offered to kids as young as 11, as Townhall covered.

In June 2023, Haim was scheduled to graduate from Texas Children’s residency program. That’s when federal agents appeared at his front door and informed him that they had identified him as the leaker in the story about transgender medicine for kids at the hospital. Afterwards, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari began threatening Haim with prosecution.

According to Fox News, Ansari, assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas, has ties to Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) (via Fox News):

In a Nov. 13, 2024 letter, Haim's lawyers notified the DOJ about what they believed to be an undisclosed conflict of interest that "Ms. Ansari’s close family members have substantial financial and political ties to third parties in this case, Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), who may constitute victims and witnesses" in the criminal prosecution of Dr. Haim.

Ansari's family owns the Houston-based company Fresh Brew, which provides commercial coffee and vending contracts to hospitals, restaurants, airlines and hotels, including American Airlines, Aramark, MD Anderson, Memorial Herman and Harris Health, which contracts with BCM and TCH. The Texas Secretary of State lists Ansari as a former executive, but it is now managed by "MTDA Investments, Inc." and it is "likely" that Ansari "retains some financial interest in the company," Haim's lawyers alleged in their letter to the DOJ. Ansari's brother, Al Ansari, currently serves as president and CEO of Fresh Brew.

Haim's counsel reminded the DOJ that the Supreme Court has established that "federal prosecutors are prohibited from representing the Government in any matter in which they, their family, or their business associates have any interest," according to a copy of the letter reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Reportedly, on Nov. 20, the DOJ filed under seal a motion to withdraw Ansari as counsel from the case.

On that same day, the DOJ filed a motion for a gag order that did not include Ansari's signature, as well as a second superseding indictment in which she is no longer listed as counsel.

The next day, Nov. 21, the federal district court granted the DOJ’s motion to withdraw counsel.

In a comment to Fox News, Haim said that he believes Ansari abused her authority to exploit his vulnerability as a young surgeon, and added that now she has withdrawn from the case, perhaps she and her "sycophantic goons finally realize they went knocking on the wrong door."

"After over a year of Ms. Ansari’s troubling behavior, including prosecuting Dr. Haim without a law license, it was finally a bridge too far when it was revealed that she failed to disclose that her close family members have substantial financial and political ties to the hospitals involved in this case," Marcella Burke, attorney for Eithan Haim, told Fox News Digital. "The Department of Justice owes the public and our client an explanation for why Ms. Ansari was terminated from the case, the troubling conduct of this investigation and prosecution, and the ongoing weaponization of the federal government against Dr. Haim."

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Pardons for all the PERPS
[X]
Posted by: 3dc || 12/05/2024 00:21 || Comments || Link || [11142 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Of course they are. Scumbags.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/05/2024 4:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Should a president, clearly involved in criminal activities and Constitutional violations, be allowed or able to pardon those involved with him in doing said crimes?

Example Given. Say "what if"
a President told the _ _ _ director and or _ _ Police Chief to drop the Seth Rich Murder investigation? An those involved in the investigation, knew the order came from the top and did not arrest the murder suspect.

Should the President be allowed to pardon those involved in the political cover-up and the suspected murderer, including himself?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2024 5:15 Comments || Top||

#3  OH BTW: Was Hunter pardoned for National Security Abuse and violations? An was this the reason JB's pardon included 2014 (up to 20 years ago?)


Hunter Laptop Contains Multiple DoD ‘Encryption Keys' With 20 Plus Year Expiration Dates To Allow Holder Access To DoD Databases
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2024 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Can you be "pardoned" for a crime you haven't been convicted of?
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/05/2024 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Might as well pardon Obama while he's at it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/05/2024 11:30 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 Can you be "pardoned" for a crime you haven't been convicted of?

Ford for Nixon.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/05/2024 16:04 Comments || Top||

#7  ^point
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/05/2024 18:47 Comments || Top||

#8  A criminal pardoning criminals. There's something terribly wrong with that idea.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/05/2024 21:54 Comments || Top||


EPA admits ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump
[X]


… as fast as possible before they [Trump Administration] come in ... it’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge.”
Posted by: 3dc || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11146 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  If you needed another reason to eliminate the EPA, here it is - flagrant abuse of the public trust, at the bare minimum.
Posted by: Raj || 12/05/2024 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  The EPA is captured. The EPA staffing comes from leftist organizations, they cut big checks to those NGOs, leave government to work for those same NGOs, rinse and repeat. They are essentially robbing our tax dollars systematically. We need to jail some people.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/05/2024 6:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Superhose -- hanging would be much cheaper, and NO recidivism.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 12/05/2024 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  OP, there should be differentiation between the EPA and the FDA.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/05/2024 13:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Close these branches of government down as a start. Audit them to determine whether they do anything useful. If not, leave them closed. Calling on Elon, Vivek and MTG to clean up this money sinkhole ASAP.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/05/2024 22:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Rhino behind attack on defense nominee. a long thread on X.
[X]

… that Joni Ernst had a "sexual affair" with a soldier under her command during her deployment from 2003 to 2004.

Gail Ernst stated in his affidavit that he caught her secretly emailing the soldier and that she admitted to the affair, apologizing and begging him not to say anything.

Posted by: 3dc || 12/05/2024 06:43 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:


ActBlue in Trouble?
[HotAir] ActBlue is the Democratic Party's main fundraising arm, and it is a cesspool of fraud and corruption.

It's not like this is a particular secret. It is common knowledge in political circles that the organization facilitates "smurfing," which is a method of laundering illegal campaign contributions through straw donors. It is a way to break up enormous political contributions that exceed campaign contribution limits into smaller donations that evade scrutiny.

Over the years the organization has gotten ever more blatant, laundering contributions through the identities of real people by making contributions in their names without their knowledge. By now the amount of money involved is likely in the billions in fraudulent poitical donations.

Independent journalists have been tracking down individuals whose identities have been used to launder big contributions, stunning some "donors" with the massive contributions they were supposed to have made. These are generally Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
who have indeed contributed small amounts. Once ActBlue has their donor information, larger sums are washed through their accounts to enable illegal campaign contributions.

Several Attorneys General from Republican states have opened up investigations, and now Mark Block, a Republican who discovered that his identity was used to launder campaign contributions to Kamala Harris
once a marijuana-busting Caliphornia DA
, is suing ActBlue in Wisconsin. ActBlue was fighting discovery, and a judge just knocked them down.

For the first time, a Wisconsin court has approved a subpoena to the massive Democrat fund-raising platform ActBlue, saying it owes an explanation to a Republican whose email identity was used to make liberal donations he did not authorize.

"Something is not right," Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad D. Schimel declared as he approved a limited demand for documents and opened a new front into a widening fund-raising probe begun earlier this year by Congress and 19 attorneys general.

Schimel rejected ActBlue’s arguments that it was onerous to require it to comply a subpoena for third-party donations it processed on its platform. The judge permitted GOP consultant Mark Block and his lawyers from America First Policy Institute to conduct discovery to determine if fraud was involved in the use of his identity to make dozens of Democrat donations on his old email address.

"I get the argument that this is an assumption on plaintiff's part that the donations are fraudulent," the judge stated in a hearing Nov. 21. "There may be an element of fraud or maybe it is innocent. Plaintiff has set forth enough in their complaint and in support of their subpoena to demonstrate that there may be something here."

ActBlue is and always has been a money laundering operation, and once the investigations into its practices really get going we will see exactly how billions of dollars have gotten laundered into the coffers of Democratic Party campaigns.

Everybody has been stunned at the scale of Kamala Harris' spending and how outrageously inefficient the campaign was, but too few people have focused on how ridiculous it is to believe that Harris legally raised $1.4 billion in so little time. It boggles the mind, and more importantly, raises questions.

James Carville suggested an audit of the Harris campaign to figure out who exactly benefited, and in that I wholly agree. But the audit shouldn't be just of the spending, but of the money raised. Where, exactly, did it really come from? Were all the people who supposedly donated the real donors?

Ron Johnson, earlier this year, revealed how uninterested the FBI and federal government were interested in pursuing the smurfing issue, even if foreign actors are involved. They seem just fine with campaign finance fraud, at least considering who benefits.

This is not an idle concern. In fact, ActBlue uses a method of processing credit cards that explicitly allows for fraudulent contributions--not collecting CVV numbers (the security numbers on the back of the card). This allows a card to be dissociated from a person.

Processing cards this way is more expensive but allows for the anonymity of the card owner. A donor can use a gift card with no attached name and then input the name of anybody as the donor. That's how Mark Block wound up being an unwitting "donor" to Kamala Harris.

This practice goes back more than a decade, and everybody knows it. As with so much other political corruption, now is the time to shut it down and prosecute the fraudsters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/05/2024 2024-12-05 01:16 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder how much of their money comes from abroad?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2024 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Like Ukraine and Pakistan?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/05/2024 14:06 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Also China & EU.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2024 14:11 Comments || Top||

#4  I'll help out with the audit, Elon & Vivek...
Posted by: Raj || 12/05/2024 15:43 Comments || Top||


Conservative watchdog compiles list of ‘woke ideologues’ in military for Pete Hegseth
[NYPOST] A conservative watchdog group has compiled a list of "woke ideologues" for Department of Defense secretary designee Pete Hegseth to purge should he overcome mounting allegations of personal and professional misconduct and become the Pentagon boss.

The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) sent a letter to the former "Fox & Friends" weekend co-host outlining 20 names of leaders across the military whom it deems excessively focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), as well as similar left-wing initiatives, and, therefore, an impediment to national security.

"The woke takeover of the military is a major threat to our national security," AAF President Thomas Jones wrote in a letter to Hegseth dated Tuesday and obtained by The Post.

"As global tensions rise, with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on the march, Russia at war, and China in midst of a massive military buildup, we cannot afford to have a military distracted and demoralized by leftist ideology," he added. "Those who were responsible for these policies being instituted in the first place must be dismissed."

Prior to getting selected by President-elect 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...
, Hegseth, 44, had publicly clamored against wokeness in the military — going as far as to publish a book on the subject earlier this year — and proclaimed on a podcast that any "General, Admiral, whatever that was involved in any of the DEI woke sh— has got to go."

Should Hegseth, an Army veteran who saw combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan, take the American Accountability Foundation’s suggestions, he wouldn’t be the only Trump pick to express interest in a purge list.
Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Woke us gotta go, but we have 4 years to fix all the stuff that broke in DOD like bad procurement, moronic strategies and corruption. Make sure we get all the rot.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/05/2024 6:06 Comments || Top||



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