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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI blows off Rep. McCarthy request for Swalwell briefing, not once, but twice.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  Swalwell is a national security liability. As are the FBI.
Posted by: Captain Spolung7477 || 12/18/2020 1:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Both Washington and Andrew Jackson would have taken the 7th floor and hung Wray by now. They either have dirt on Trump (head IRS etc.) or he's gone full idiot coward on us.

Nathan Hale is rolling in his honored grave. Personally I'm done with this shit show. We've all held our breath for the Don, he's pussied out leaving us fully screwed.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/18/2020 1:35 Comments || Top||

#4  None of this passes the smell test. Within the past few days a whore or sex problem was discovered in the ranks of the bureau - Politico story. Only one article, then it all went quiet.

Swalwell was quoted as having stayed in touch with Christina Fang and family after she left the US. Looks to me like a plea deal of sorts.

"Hey, work with us on this. You keep us posted on these SOB's on a regular basis and we'll make sure the kak level remains low on yours truly."

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 5:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Waiting for this: "Swalwell was a heroic double agent working with the FBI against Chinese spies until outed by moronic Trumptsters."
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/18/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Any 25 or 30 Burg readers could assist with the writing of this story Glen. If you need help, do not be a stranger.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||

#7  "Did I say Russians? I meant Chinese!"

And OJ's going to find Nicole's killer. Any day now. Yup
Posted by: Shineper Sproing3887 || 12/18/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#8  The term "Manchurian Candidate" may fit well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2020 13:53 Comments || Top||


#10  ^ Because defense briefings to Biden is the same as briefing China.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/18/2020 14:44 Comments || Top||

#11  /\ Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) attendees plane delayed due to weather ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 14:48 Comments || Top||

#12  No matter. Feinstein can take care of it.
Posted by: Clem || 12/18/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#13  Literally everything they accused Trump of is actually true about the Democrats
Posted by: Black Charlie Tingle4913 || 12/18/2020 14:56 Comments || Top||

#14  Projection. Classic symptom of narcissism, aka politician.
Posted by: Clese Sneart7857 || 12/18/2020 15:16 Comments || Top||

#15  So far Black Charlie Tingle comment is 100% right. Someone should determine what is the craziest, scariest thing they've accused Trump of and investigate the Dems on those lines.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/18/2020 16:16 Comments || Top||

#16  Someone should determine what is the craziest, scariest thing they've accused Trump of and investigate the Dems on those lines.

OK I'll play. How about

FALSE: Trump's hitting on ... his daughter!!!
TRUE: According to text messages exchanged with his former bedmate, the woman who married his brother, Biden's son was that woman's 14 year-old daughter -- IOW his underaged niece

FALSE: Trump wants to break the sanctions and do private business deals with the Russians!!!
TRUE: The Bidens' Chinese business partners in CEFC traveled to Moscow and signed a deal to buy 14% of Russia's state-owned oil company Rosneft.

In a separate transaction, Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million interest-free "loan" -- for what legitimate business purpose no one can say -- from a corrupt Russian billionaire, the ex-wife of Moscow's notorious thief-mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

FALSE: Trump doesn't just flatter Putin; he's actually an agent for the Kremlin!!!
TRUE: The Bidens' Chinese business partners work for a front organization that has been used repeatedly by Chinese intelligence to bribe politicians in Africa and other nations as a way of compromising them. Trump's junior accuser, the ranking member in the House intelligence Committee, was trapped by a Chinese honeypot for years.


Posted by: Spats Ulusorong3837 || 12/18/2020 18:23 Comments || Top||

#17  So, as an FBI asset, when does Swalwell set off a pressure cooker bomb?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/18/2020 19:39 Comments || Top||

#18  #16 SU 3837, I think you meant

TRUE: According to text messages exchanged with his former bedmate, the woman who married his brother, Biden's son was hitting on that woman's 14 year-old daughter -- IOW his underaged niece
Posted by: Floluse Stalin6228 || 12/18/2020 21:08 Comments || Top||

#19  McCarthy was briefed and he said after what he heard, Swalwell should be removed from the House Intelligence committee.

How about tossing him and Schiff, the chronic storyteller and liar out of the House. Both have done a lot of damage to the country.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2020 23:15 Comments || Top||


Operation 'Snow Globe' (short video)
Possible scenario: Dems turn on Plugs following inauguration. Plugs goes down hard over Hunter problem. Plugs resigns within the first 90 days due to "medical issues". Kam moves to Oval Office. Deep State picks the Hildebeest to be Kam's VP.

Byrne speaks Mandarin, lived in China. Unnamed third country China ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well it's at least 50/50 odds that Plugger doesn't last through 2021. He's obviously mentally decrepit and just as obviously implicated in his son's crimes. Perhaps he can hang on till the midterms in 2022 but the GOP will take the House and impeach him in 2023.

So one way or another it's very likely that he won't finish his term. No tinfoil needed to support that statement.

Posted by: Thineting Cravitch4646 || 12/18/2020 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Unless Trump grows a pair (or even one), yeah it's odds on likely.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/18/2020 1:37 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't think Kamala is stupid enough to allow Hillary as V.P. Hillary has the 'Suicide Hotline' on speed dial and is willing to place an order.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/18/2020 2:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Some people believe that if Biden croaks or is ousted, the deepState won't accept a Kamala, and they might JFK her. It's ridiculous at face value, but in these times not implausible.

With absolute decison-making power to the chicoms, the deepState players may still benefit, way more than in a Republican administration. But with loons and crims [especially wimmin] in charge, there is just chaos. Nobody wants chaos. Not Langley, not China, not the DNC.

Of course, this may be just the wishful fantasy of old analysts without a bearing on the dynamics of today.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/18/2020 2:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Agreed they want docility and predictability. That's Plugs.
Or Hillary.

Kamala is a loose cannon. She'll say anything, do anything, do anyone to advance her career. She has absolutely no meaningful political beliefs. An actress. A Markle.
Posted by: Heriberto Whegum4401 || 12/18/2020 6:36 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Kamala is a loose cannon. She'll say anything, do anything, do anyone to advance her career. She has absolutely no meaningful political beliefs. An actress. A Markle.

Excellent fit for the beltway crowd. Watch for signs. Promising political future just ahead.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 6:40 Comments || Top||

#7  A female Chauncey Gardiner with a smile and a cvnt
But long in the tooth. And never was hot to begin with
Posted by: Sonny Thud1253 || 12/18/2020 7:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Would Soetoro allow Hillary to be V-P?
Posted by: Clem || 12/18/2020 7:30 Comments || Top||

#9  /\. Never mind. The Deep State trumps Obama and anyone else.
Posted by: Clem || 12/18/2020 7:31 Comments || Top||

#10  If Kamala does Xi...
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/18/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||

#11  She does Xi does by the seashore
Posted by: Gomez Shilet3981 || 12/18/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Probably has his own private beach.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/18/2020 14:08 Comments || Top||

#13  Has his private b!tch on his private beach
Posted by: Shusoling Elmereck6865 || 12/18/2020 14:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Dr. Jill Biden's Actual Dissertation/Position Paper
[DocumentCloud.org] STUDENT RETENTION AT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: MEETING STUDENTS' NEEDS
at the link

It is rather boring. She starts with a history of community college which goes on for far too long. The amount of original research is quite slim and there are some other problems.

However, I've seen worse; much worse. For one thing this paper was not 'woke'. It frankly admits that most minority students come ill prepared for college level work.

Her first suggestion for improvement was to move from MLA to APA format because it was easier for students in community college. I think that is actually a good suggestion.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/18/2020 08:36 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A complete moron. Yet she along with the Chinese is pulling the strings of our Puppet-elect.
And we're supposed to call her "doctor" and him "President"?
What a shitshow
Posted by: Big tse Tung4104 || 12/18/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#2  They are merely media sock puppets, useful idiots. Curse the shadow gov't puppet masters.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  1984 = Dystopian Nightmare
2020 = Slapstick Shitshow
Posted by: Rupert Phairong8501 || 12/18/2020 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Wife and husband: Moron + Puppet
Son: Maniacal Crackhead in hock to CCP
Brother: Felon and War Profiteer
Running mate: Prostitute
Cabinet: Fools and Fuck-Ups

A menagerie of grotesque thieves. Where's Thomas Nast when you need him?
Posted by: Thort Grineque1610 || 12/18/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Now we get to see that the credential-obsessed are as naked as the emperor in his new clothes.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/18/2020 20:04 Comments || Top||


Dems Keep Election Promises - Water Down China Provisions in Defense Bill
[Free Beacon] House Democrats stripped down an anti-China bill that unanimously passed in the Senate by removing language reining in Chinese government influence on U.S. campuses.

The Senate's National Defense Authorization Act included a provision that authorized the Department of Education to withhold funding from U.S. universities that host Chinese government-backed Confucius Institutes on campus. House Democrats removed the measure from the final version of the bill following negotiations. Louisiana senator John Kennedy (R.), who helped write the anti-Confucius Institute measure, said Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) had "gutted" a key weapon to counter Chinese influence in academia.

"Communist China is still buying influence on U.S. campuses," Kennedy said. "Yet Democrats gutted an NDAA amendment that would protect academic freedom and give U.S. colleges control over what Confucius Institutes teach on our soil."

The NDAA provisions were originally part of the CONFUCIUS Act, which unanimously passed in the Senate in June. The House Democrats' decision to water down the provisions comes after Pelosi stonewalled action on the CONFUCIUS Act for months, pushing her caucus to vote down Republican attempts to put it on the House floor. The attitude is consistent with Democratic leadership's ambivalence when it comes to China-related issues: Pelosi and others have thus far ignored Republican requests to remove Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) from the House Intelligence Committee after a report revealed that he unknowingly interacted with a Chinese spy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 05:59 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Calls Begin for Kamala Harris to Have a ‘More Important Job' Than ‘Just the Vice President'
[LI] Long before Joe Biden became the Democratic presidential nominee, reports circulated that the then-77-year-old former VP signaled he’d only commit to serving one term if elected. This came after months of Democrats and media figures raised the issue of his age and cognitive health after a series of gaffes and flubs made during the primaries.

Even after he officially secured the nomination, the questions about Biden’s mental fitness to lead persisted. At one point when he was point-blank asked about it by a reporter in early August 2020. Days later, he announced Sen. Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate.

Along with his choice of Harris came the inevitable speculation from Republicans that Biden, who was still made several incoherent statements from the comfort of his basement, would be a mere figurehead if elected. At the same time, Harris would effectively take the reins and officially take them in the event Biden was already making plans to step down after the election.

Such speculation was further fueled by reports from pro-Biden news outlets like CNN, who suggested the reason Biden chose Harris was to have someone ready to step up "if and when" he "decides to step aside."

A month later, both Harris and Biden each talked within a day of each other about a "Harris administration." Harris corrected herself, but Biden did not. Some suggested they’d been caught accidentally saying the quiet part out loud.

Now here we are, a month and a half after Election Day. Literally, just one day after the Electoral College voted to make the victory "official" for Biden and Harris, there are already calls from liberal circles to give Harris a "more important" job than "just the vice president."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 00:57 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Surely didn't see this one coming.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Total farce now.

So a corrupt old zombie clown who wasn't elected but will nonetheless take office - thanks to massive, brazen ridiculous fraud - is about to step aside for a whore who also wasn't elected. She only became VP because he needed someone who could tick off identity boxes. This came after she failed to win even a single primary race.

How did this happen to us?
Who the fuck is the pimp manipulating these repulsive and ridiculous whores?

Why is this situation tolerated?
Posted by: Jack Speack3078 || 12/18/2020 1:37 Comments || Top||

#3  My son in Virginia says this "talk" has been going on for weeks. They give Joe 6-8 months.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 12/18/2020 1:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Counting camel toes at the circus?
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/18/2020 1:58 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/18/2020 2:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Depending on how things go in GA, she'll may be President of the Senate.

She couldn't make it through the primaries in the Donk run off. They're really putting the illegitimacy into the very existence of the central government.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2020 5:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Well it won't cost much - just need a closet and kneepads.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/18/2020 9:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Well Procopius, socialism is never legitimately voted in, only fraud, theft, and emergency 'deals'.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/18/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#9  It also is never voted out, Cesare.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/18/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#10  I suspect they let joe be a figurehead for awhile. if he rams through far left policies that end up unpopular she won't be directly tainted by them. If the policies are popular, they can still go the dementia/Hunter route.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/18/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#11  Who the fuck is the pimp manipulating these repulsive and ridiculous whores?

The pimp is on the left.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/18/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#12  Why is this situation tolerated?

Good question, JS3078. Several potential answers:

1) Because the Normies are in shock - a state of Denial that eventually will give away to Bargaining, Acceptance and finally Death.

2) Because the mostly peaceful protestors (MPPs) have terrified the law-abiding Normies into submission. They value Peace more than honesty and integrity-- a perfectly rational choice, bolstered by the evident fact that many of those charged with interpreting the laws fear violence by the MPPs if the laws are upheld.

3) In contrast to 1) and 2), this madness actually won't be tolerated much longer. The Normies are merely keeping their powder dry and will soon engage in mass civil disobedience and nationwide strikes.

Which is it? Place your bets, folks
Posted by: Herb Ghibelline1169 || 12/18/2020 12:19 Comments || Top||

#13  I hear foreign dignitary fluffer is open.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/18/2020 14:06 Comments || Top||

#14  ^ Iger might be interested.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/18/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#15  Payback time for Bob. Easier to manage the bribery flow when you're onsite, in the Forbidden City
Posted by: Sleretch Fillmore1871 || 12/18/2020 14:26 Comments || Top||

#16  Its on her face.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2020 17:14 Comments || Top||

#17  Wait til it leaks out Kamalama-ding-dong can't manage the combination on the Football...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/18/2020 21:00 Comments || Top||


Explosive Claim at Senate Hearing: 130,000 Fraudulent Votes in Nevada Election
[PJ] Explosive testimony at a Senate hearing on the 2020 election Wednesday will make you wonder if Joe Biden really did win the state of Nevada by some 33,600 votes. An attorney for Donald Trump repeated a disputed claim Wednesday that there were four times more fraudulent votes than Biden’s margin of victory.

Nevada certified its vote for Joe Biden on November 23rd and the Electoral College has elected Joe Biden the winner of the election, but the count has been in dispute since Election Day and beyond.

In testimony before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee, Trump attorney Jesse Binnall claimed that his statisticians, using open source information and databases, determined that 130,000 votes cast in the November 3rd election were fraudulent—nearly four times Biden’s win margin.

A judge threw out his lawsuit on behalf of President Trump alleging the fraud, as The Nevada Independent reported.

[The judge] summarily dismissed its claims of voter fraud and request for an overturn of election results in a ruling on Friday, writing that the campaign’s evidence provided "little to no value" based on questionable or "unsound" methodology, adding that the evidence failed to show any "credible or reliable evidence that the 2020 General Election in Nevada was affected by fraud."

The Trump campaign nonetheless appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court on Monday, saying in filings that the court failed to take into account "expert" testimony provided by the campaign and applied a higher evidentiary standard than required to prove sufficient voter fraud had occurred.

However, ABC News reported that Senator Rand Paul said that the judges "didn’t rule on whether there was fraud, as many cases were dismissed on procedural grounds before they were argued on the merits."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2020 00:31 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
More Like Fact.

Like many I see a collection of Politically aligned Judges acting in an unison and openly Politically Bias manner to violate State laws and constitutions. All of which meets RICO Act standards for prosecution.

All with the End goal of helping the Socialist-Democrats ousting Trump before he can further dismantle the DC/Globalist Click. Bypass the Dept of State and fix the middle east and return DC to a Constitutional run government answerable to the Citizens.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/18/2020 5:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Legal wrangling aside, the simple obvious fact is that the man our elites claim as president-elect wasn't elected by anything like a fair or honest process.

The election was a bad joke. Everyone in the country can see that.

Ballot stuffing. Obviously fraudulent ballots arriving after midnight in the tens of thousands. Dead voters, voters with identical birth dates, people getting ballots they never requested or being told they'd already voted when showed up to polling places etc.

Ridiculously slanted media coverage. Media censorship of any and all stories about the most flagrantly, obviously corrupt presidential candidate's family that this nation has ever seen in its 232 year history. A candidate who has almost certainly been compromised by our greatest foreign enemy. Which is now preparing to launch another war in Asia against one of our close allies.

And we the people are supposed to shit up and accept this nightmare as a normal occurrence?

Posted by: Hupaiger Tingle8709 || 12/18/2020 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  No matter what the media says or ignores, this will be coming to light. 'Move along and unite' isn't going to work. I ask again, just what happens when it all gets hashed out, oh, say around next Memorial Day?
Posted by: Cesare || 12/18/2020 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Paraphrasing former Nevada Senator Harry Reid: "It worked, we won."
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/18/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, it worked.

Which means every political candidate and political operative will now be mastering the techniques of ballot harvesting and ballot manufacturing, fiddling and double or triple-counting.

If these results are not overthrown, we'll never see honest elections again in this country
Posted by: Unaiger Elmater3988 || 12/18/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Here it comes
Here it co-oooomes
Here it co-oooomes
Here comes your 19th nervous breakdown...
Posted by: Pliny Speresing1944 || 12/18/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Pretty well documented Californians with an additional residence in NV each casting votes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2020 12:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Its exactly like what they are calling for in Georgia - Californians, Floridian fellow travelers with the money to do so were called to rent an apartment in Georgia so they could vote in the Special Senate Election.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2020 18:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Poor Georgians. Carpetbagged yet once more
Posted by: Snugum Jaitle2416 || 12/18/2020 19:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Innit funny. The left loves the "If it saves just one life" argument for all sorts of mischief, but when it comes to votes they don't want to hear "Every fraudlent vote cancels a legitimate vote."

Hypocrites.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/18/2020 20:18 Comments || Top||

#11  It seems the battlefield has been being prepped for
September 12, 2018 EO 13848 “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.”
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2020 20:41 Comments || Top||

#12  Perhaps Putin can send some election observers to Atlanta to ensure a few fair and transparent election
Posted by: Elmeting Snineque6868 || 12/18/2020 21:01 Comments || Top||


Republican Mackenzie Kelly Wins Austin City Council Runoff. Local Paper Declines to Cover It
[PJMEDIA] In a stunning upset, Republican Mackenzie Kelly defeated Democrat incumbent Jimmy Flannigan in Austin’s District 6 runoff Tuesday. Kelly ran on a platform that includes restoring police department funding and ending the city’s permissive homeless camping ordinance. She won with 52% to Flannigan’s 48%, a margin of just about 700 votes overall.Kelly’s win, and Republican Jennifer Virden’s near-win in District 10, may signal a major shift in Austin voters’ thinking. The Democrat-dominated city was already up in arms over the homeless camping ordinance, which allows homeless people to camp just about anywhere they want all over the city (except city hall) since the council passed it unanimously in the summer of 2019. That has led to encampments under overpasses and even on the fringes of neighborhoods all over Austin. Those camps are unsanitary and unsafe; one of them recently burned.

Then the pandemic struck, and Mayor Steve Adler took an authoritarian approach that has, among other things, badly damaged the city’s once-vibrant live music scene (and his own credibility). #SaveOurStages became a force in the city because Adler and the city council’s policies are harming one of Austin’s trademarks, destroying many residents’ ability to make a living at all.

Then the riots struck, and the Austin city council sprinted without thinking at all toward defunding its already short-staffed police department. The city council sliced about $140 to $150 million, about a third, from that budget. The mayor and city council never considered the likely consequences on crime rates or the city’s living and business climates. They just did what the radical activists told them to do. Crime soared. The city council has shown no signs of caring about it. They have instead promoted a woke "social contract" that is, well, infantile.

Kelly and Virden ran against incumbent Democrats Jimmy Flannigan and Alison Alter respectively. Both made the runoff and now Kelly has unseated Flannigan. Virden narrowly missed by a few hundred votes, which should encourage other Republicans to challenge in other districts in a couple of years. Both ran on pro-law enforcement, anti-homeless camping platforms.

Kelly’s win and Virden’s near-miss are significant. So what’s on the front page of the city’s major newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman, today?

Nothing about the city council earthquake. Not a word.



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#1 
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/18/2020 1:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Afraid to turn on The Machine?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2020 16:14 Comments || Top||


Mission accomplished? Facebook joins Twitter in reverting to pre-election news feed algorithms that do not prioritize MSM
[RT] Facebook has reversed its election-season policy of prioritizing mainstream media stories in News Feed after a similar move from Twitter. This is as Mark Zuckerberg
...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates....
is sued for allegedly helping tip the vote in favor of Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
An algorithm tweak that saw Facebook users deluged with mainstream media stories following last month’s elections has been reversed, the social media behemoth told the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

on Wednesday, insisting that the change — which significantly boosted traffic for establishment outlets like CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
, NPR, and the Times itself while suppressing alt-media and right-wing sites — was never meant to be permanent.

Boosting the importance of "news ecosystem quality," essentially a reputational score applied to news outlets, was "a temporary change we made to help limit the spread of inaccurate claims about the election," Facebook front man Joe Osborne told the outlet. He explained that the platform was still prioritizing so-called "authoritative and informative news" on "important global topics like elections, Covid-19 and climate change."
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:


Michigan's Whitmer stages 'creepy' Covid propaganda call with Santa
[RT] Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender...
used a Zoom call with Santa and six groups of children — complete with Covid-19 questions by the little ones — to teach kids not to visit grandparents and other family members for Christmas.

"Another way to stay safe during the holiday is to stay home, but call your grandparents and your cousins and your family," Whitmer said in a video of the call posted on Wednesday. "It's the safest way to tell the people you love how much you care about them."

The call began with Whitmer introducing Santa to the children and inviting them to ask him questions. Rather than asking about toys or reindeer, the children all stuck to the Covid-19 theme. One asked whether Santa had to wear a mask (of course he and the elves are following government guidelines), while another asked if coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
had spread to the North Pole (no, but Santa and the elves are testing regularly and taking every precaution).

One helpful young boy said he would leave out hand sanitizer for Santa to use when he's done with the milk and cookies — a suggestion that the Democrat governor praised.


Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Still pretty certain Whitmer is a man chinese crossdresser.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/18/2020 1:39 Comments || Top||

#2  That broad is naughty.
Posted by: Clem || 12/18/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  What a wretch.

Noam Blum for the win.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Wretched Gretchen.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/18/2020 14:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Wretched Whitener is Lucy Van Pelt come to life
Posted by: Fat Bob Dribble8512 || 12/18/2020 14:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Where did we even did this horrid creature up? What an awful excuse for a human being... She has really made me hate the state I live in.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 12/18/2020 16:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Makes me wonder which is worse:

Who thought this was a good idea.
Those who nodded along without objection.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2020 17:11 Comments || Top||

#8  "Ice cream, Mandrake. Children's ice cream!"

- Gen. Jack Ripper, Dr. Strangelove
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/18/2020 19:46 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden's looming disaster
[THEHILL] Pity Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
. He is the dog that finally caught the bus and he is soon to be political roadkill. While he celebrates his victory in the Electoral College, powerful forces already are engaged to doom him and his presidency. His two central problems are that he has set the wrong expectations and that his policies will not work in the current domestic and international political, economic and military environment.

The only message in his "I’m-not-Trump" political campaign was that President Trump made a mess of domestic and foreign policy and that Biden would fix all of that. The deadly trap is that Trump did very well on many key measures and Biden inevitably will do much worse, creating a failed Biden presidency.

His Day One issue of COVID-19 already is a loser. Researchers developed vaccines in record time, under Trump’s direction, and are rolling them out. The complex issue of distribution now goes to Biden. Any significant number of deaths among the vulnerable communities of nursing homes, the elderly in general, minorities, and those with pre-existing conditions will fall solely on Biden’s team. Similarly, sustained economic damage resulting from lockdowns will fall on Biden and Democratic officials.

The other Day One issue is Biden’s budget. He has proposed tax increases that will affect all income groups, with a disproportionate impact on high-income earners. Compounding that increase will be the "hidden tax" of an inevitable increase in inflation from the multitrillion-dollar COVID-19 relief bills. These combined tax increases will trigger investment capital flight, much as they did under former President Obama. The inflation will drive up both interest rates and unemployment, and increase the wealth gap in spite of Biden’s tax policies.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "...inevitable increase in inflation from the multitrillion-dollar COVID-19 relief bills..."\

the author of this piece may think this but the market for debt thinks otherwise

one year Treasury debt is about 0.1%,
5 year is about 0.4%
20 year is about 1.5%
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/18/2020 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Food prices have already soared.

If prices are rising and Congress is stimulating demand artificially with their firehouse-stimulus, and if supply has been reduced thanks to the lockdown and layoffs, then you will have much higher than average inflation, sure as G-d made little green helicoptered greenbacks
Posted by: Omurong Thrererong1302 || 12/18/2020 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden will just blame Trump for the next four three two years three months.

Just like Obama did with Bush for over eight years and counting...
Posted by: magpie || 12/18/2020 12:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Their disaster is that they didn't wait 4 years to pull this shit where there wouldn't be a metric to measure against.

As it is, old white man potato garnished more votes than Obama - totally unbelievable by either side - and the plan to hoist woman of color will be equally unbelievable as a first, especially as she proves the onion everyone knows she is.

Overheated their cloak on the cheat system, and anyone on that side who can understand a three year plan must secretly be wondering how to exit and save face. The believers must see that 'bringing the band back together' doesn't include them. All the Promissory Notes already handed out to arrogate the plebes means no more graft to be handed out.

Total fugging.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  "...and the plan to hoist woman of color will be equally unbelievable as a first, especially as she proves the onion everyone knows she is."

All roads lead to/through Perkins Coie.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/18/2020 14:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Large gatherings at border with Mexico.A Biden win a green lite for USA entry.
Posted by: Dale || 12/18/2020 17:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Are the wearing masks with the Dos Equis logo?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/18/2020 20:11 Comments || Top||

#8  No, with the BIDEN-HARRIS logo
Posted by: Bill Guelph9152 || 12/18/2020 20:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Over promise. Under deliver. To an audience that wants the sun, moon, stars and stuff sane people can't even imagine.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/18/2020 20:22 Comments || Top||

#10  It's be funny if the Proud Boys have to spirit Joe out of Washington to prevent his lynching bad thing we never wish on any American...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/18/2020 20:25 Comments || Top||


Texas Congressman Matt Patrick Stunning Claim, Supreme Court Chief Justice Worried About Riots
[The Last Refuge] During the Texas presidential electors legislative session there was a debate over an amendment to wording where the Texas House would rebuke the Supreme Court of the United States for "moral cowardice" in not allowing the Texas challenge to be heard.

During the amendment debate Texas Congressman Matt Patrick (CD-32) put into the ¹record a report from a claimed "Supreme Court staffer" about an internal debate taking place within the high court where justices were arguing the reasons for not allowing the Texas election challenge to take place. As outlined by Patrick Chief Justice Roberts was worried about riots in the streets if the court heard the Texas arguments and evidence.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course. Not shocking at all -- this was widely reported material FACT.

Every major city's police force expected left-wing riots on Election Night. Downtown merchants made a run in plywood for backing up their shop windows. Mayors warned merchants to brace for impact.

Antifa and BLM flyers went up in multiple cities' downtown areas promising to "Burn it down if Biden's not elected."

Given the weakness and cowardice Roberts has shown, it's totally plausible that he has influenced the liberals and is trying to influence the new Justice and mom of kids from Haiti to avoid any decision that might ignite still more political violence.

IOW the mob now has veto power over our political and juridical systems.

How much longer will the normies tolerate this situation?

If the courts are cowed by these thugs, what remedy is left?
Posted by: Uluper Pherese2269 || 12/18/2020 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/18/2020 1:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Wait till he sees what happens in a civil war. Rioting as we have seen will be the least destructive results.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2020 5:26 Comments || Top||


#5  ^ now there's a reliable source. Someone who calls himself "Allah" and substitutes insults for logical argument
Posted by: Cluth Chineting2509 || 12/18/2020 6:51 Comments || Top||

#6  I agree it seems (a little bit) unlikely, if believable, but the opinion cited in #4 concludes with - the effort to undo the election is fundamentally a mob action

Just speaking for myself, I just want to have the illegal votes disqualified and the cheaters punished.

If that makes me a member of a "mob", I'm glad to be part of it.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/18/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Antifa overthrows SCOTUS.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/18/2020 9:19 Comments || Top||

#8  This year one side has demonstrated both capability and intent to unleash at least economically devastating violence and to forcibly disband the constitutional and legals system of the US.

The other side's capability hasn't been demonstrated and other side is taking pride in the intent to remain peaceful.

To preserve the peace the courts had to side with the mostly peaceful faction. Which they did.

That's all there is to it.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 12/18/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#9  allahpundit is a hack.
but to which I'd say
ni hao.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2020 10:23 Comments || Top||

#10  I also doubt the authenticity of the overheard report.

If true however Roberts should be pressured to step down. The Supreme Court can't let the mob veto the Constitution. What happens beyond the very strict confines of Constitutional legalities is beyond their concern. Maybe warn the authorities a day or so before passing judgement likely to cause riots would be the closest they should ever come to non-constitutional concerns.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/18/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Defer to violence. Great plan.

Whatever they have on Roberts, can we figure out what it is and use it against him as well?
Posted by: Iblis || 12/18/2020 13:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Do you want riots from a ragtag gang of anarchists or 75-80 million pissed-off voters?

That said, that should not be the concern of SCOTUS. If they are intimidated by Antifa or BLM, they should not be sitting on the Court. We don't need the faint of heart sitting on the bench who can be manipulated by a bunch of street thugs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2020 13:58 Comments || Top||

#13  Look, whatever evidence there may be, the central fact is that we have about 6,000 or so elite individuals in this country - across both parties' professionals, top editors and publishers and broadcast execs, and Big Tech and Wall Street and other corporate CEOs, and judges and top officials in the federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies - who were hell-bent on ejecting Orange Nosferatu from the White House.

They told us so. They wiretapped him and lied about it. They fabricated garbage about him and lied about it. They hounded and persecuted his people, refusing to stop even when the government itself withdrew the case. They went on the airwaves and bleated outlandish lies about him, 24/7, for four years. They impeached him on made-up charges. And then they suppressed a mountain of hard evidence implicating his opponent in every single charge they'd falsely accused the OrangeMan of.

At this point it simply doesn't matter what Roberts might have said or not said in a private conversation. He's one of the 6,000 who have made a joke of our democracy. He does not deserve our defense or support.

And if he isn't careful, he and the other elites will find they don't have our compliance either. It's coming, soon.
Posted by: Slick Angaitch3642 || 12/18/2020 14:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Don't know if this is true or not.

What I know is true is that the SC has chosen war.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/18/2020 14:50 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Gov. Cuomo bars diners from using eatery bathrooms, causing panic
Petty tyrant and Grandma killer strikes again
[NY Post] Big Apple eatery owners ‐ already struggling to cope with a second shutdown of indoor dining amid the coronavirus pandemic ‐ were thrown into a panic Thursday night when the Cuomo administration dropped new rules that barred patrons in outdoor spaces from using their indoor bathrooms.

The initial guidance, released publicly by Kapil Longani, counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, stated that "customers are not allowed to enter the inside of an SLA-licensed establishment for any reason while the guidance is in effect."

To the dismay of some eatery owners, the guidance indicated that even the bathrooms would be off-limits.

"If my SLA-licensed establishment is offering outdoor dining, may I allow customers to use the bathroom inside?" reads one of the questions on the document.

"No," the reply states. "Customers may not enter the inside of the establishment for any reason."

The regulation threw one city restaurant, Il Posto Accanto on the Lower East Side, into a tailspin.

"The NYSLA new guidance for indoor dining states that customers may not enter the restaurant to use the restroom!!!" said a post on the eatery's Instagram page. "Please Contact Governor Cuomo and all of our elected officials….This is not human!!!!!"

Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, blasted the guidance as "another example of why restaurants and bars feel like government is purposely kicking them in the gut and then stopping on their hand when they're already down."
Posted by: Frank G || 12/18/2020 12:36 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Is this why they are relaxing prosecution for public urination?
Posted by: james || 12/18/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Might as well close down the diners and eateries if they don't have the use of bathrooms. Oh wait, that's what this wannabe dictator is trying to do.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2020 14:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Is he trying to set off mass civil disobedience?
Does this asshole even begin to realize how ridiculous and contemptible he is?
Posted by: Phinter Sforza5380 || 12/18/2020 14:19 Comments || Top||

#4  I think he is trying to be dragged out of his office and hanged in the streets.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/18/2020 14:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Just put a porta-potty in front of each restaurant with a big sign - Tony Toilet.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/18/2020 14:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Now they can be like those sophisticates in San Francisco.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2020 15:44 Comments || Top||

#7  But it's not (yet) a shithole
Posted by: Clyde and Company4008 || 12/18/2020 16:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Love in the times of cholera...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/18/2020 20:07 Comments || Top||



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