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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Jimmy Carter Turns 97
[PEOPLE] Jimmy has ceased buying green bananas or starting any long books. At least he can die secure in the knowledge that, not only was he a better president than James Buchanan and almost as good as Millard Fillmore, but that two out of three Dem presidents since him have been worse and that one out of three has played the saxophone on national teevee and gotten a BJ whilst discussing national policy on the Hot Line™.
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday, Jimmy! I know Obama was awfuller, but in my heart you will always be Worst President Ever.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/03/2021 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably will outlast us all.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2021 1:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember when he replaced the Shah, an important US ally, with a radical Muslim revolution? Good job there Carter.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616 || 10/03/2021 2:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Well at least he supported the early research that led to fracking. So did Jerry Ford, btw.

Different era... Jimmah looks normal and moderate compared with our current crew of insane leftists
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 3:19 Comments || Top||

#5  They say Only the good die young.
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 10/03/2021 3:59 Comments || Top||

#6  ...A lousy President, but a good Man. Damned if I can figure THAT out.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/03/2021 7:42 Comments || Top||

#7  The original Virtue Signaler.
Posted by: Snerert Thud6543 || 10/03/2021 7:57 Comments || Top||

#8  but a good Man.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has written better than I could on that subject, Mike. This, for instance, from 2016:

Jimmy Carter’s Animus for Israel
Few American leaders have had a more broken moral compass


which opens with President Carter’s fond memories of Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/03/2021 8:20 Comments || Top||

#9  Unlike Biden, his actions didn't appear to match his character.

Could it be that he wasn't actually in control of events, even back then.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2021 8:26 Comments || Top||

#10  #9 Yes, Tip O'Neill was the true power. A example, solar panels were begun and O'Neill's son was a player in that new industry.
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 8:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Billy Beer
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#12 
Happy Birthday Mr. Carter.

You have been a very good example of Christianity in its truest since.

You have put forth much effort in providing for others with less. All while never seeking personal media attention, other what was needed to continue the Christian-Humanitarian efforts.

Best Wishes Sir.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/03/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#13  The Peter Principle™ in action: he is a smart and caring person that should have never been given executive power. I was starting to think better of him do to his Habitats For Humanity work and that opinion soured as he seemed to support every despotic dictator, every evil cause and, yes, his anti-Semitism that seemed to grow more overt as time passed.
Posted by: magpie || 10/03/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#14  He never met a murdering terrorist he didn't love and support.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/03/2021 10:21 Comments || Top||

#15  I'll give him this: unlike the Clintons and the Obamas and the Bidens and their retinues, Jimmah never traded on his office.

Unlike those walking whores, Jimmah spent his post-presidency helping people instead of collecting a nine-figure fortune from corporations and billionaires paying him for past and future political services.
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 10:47 Comments || Top||

#16  Jimmy also had a hand in Venezuela's 2012 election by proclaiming it was fair and free (spoiler - it wasn't)

On the other hand, Jimmy was part of the 2005 bipartisan commission that said that vote by mail was a danger of fraud. He reversed himself on this in advance of the 2020 elections.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/03/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#17  How did this old dolt beat cancer? CAR T, perhaps?
Posted by: Glinesing Shaique2021 || 10/03/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||

#18  ^ Satan doesn't want him and God is already tired of his screechy preaching
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2021 13:59 Comments || Top||

#19  an old school Christian. like really old school; the kind that has a burning hatred of Jews.
Posted by: Retard Strength || 10/03/2021 14:13 Comments || Top||

#20  Mike:

Some of us knew what was gonna happen when we counted the number of McGovern staffers in his train.
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 17:49 Comments || Top||

#21  Basically a weakling who was out of his depth on the world stage.

His cabinet was schizo: he had a cookie-pushers like Cy Vance and Andrew Young alongside the most hawkish Cold Warrior of the era, Zbig Brzezinski, as NSC Adviser.

Despite his obvious high intelligence - 'nukeyer' er nuclear engineering degree from USNA - when it came to practical policy and strategy, the guy had no coherent, intelligent understanding of the world
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 19:29 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Newsom signs sweeping reforms, raises age for new cops to 21, can lose badge for 'racial bias'
[BIZPACREVIEW] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom
...the Mitt Romneyesque mayor of San Francisco as it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of California as it transforms itself into Cinderland...
has signed a number of sweeping police reform bills that take aim at alleged law enforcement misconduct and will allow officers to be stripped of their badges for "racial bias" and other deemed offenses.
They keep voting for these pieces of candied excrement, so they deeserve what they get with them.
On Thursday, surrounded by what Newsom called "moral leadership" and the family members of those killed by law enforcement officers, he signed into law eight police reform bills claiming that they would increase transparency and accountability. He was joined by California Attorney General Rob Bonta who proclaimed that there is a "crisis of trust" between citizens and officers.

"We’re delivering concrete solutions from banning dangerous holds that lead to asphyxia to multiple other mechanisms that improve accountability and oversight and transparency," Bonta declared.

"I’m here as governor of California mindful that we’re in a juxtaposition of being a leader on police reform and a lagger on police reform," Newsom bloviated from a park gymnasium in the Los Angeles suburb of Gardena. "We have a lot to be proud of but there’s areas where we have nothing to brag about."
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  all the police unions, fraternal orgs, etc. opposed this

crime gangs are probably rejoicing tonight
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/03/2021 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Newsom is like the idiot nephew of Joey Bananas. A flaming asshole's flaming asshole
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 2:52 Comments || Top||

#3 

OK I have to ask....
Given the 18-20 year Federal Firearms Law denying pistols to under 21 years old was recently invalided.Jul 13, 2021 — WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has ruled that prohibitions on selling handguns to Americans under 21 violates the Second Amendment

So how were <21 yr/old polices officers legally armed before?

But then still an US 18-20 year old only has Limited Rights as an Adult.

Now as far ANY Police Officer being found "Racially Bias" in the course of their police duties & arrests being canned? Doesn't that go w/o saying?

Finally addressing how suspects are physically detained during Violent RESISTING ARREST situations.

When a Police Officers live is in danger, I agree with the Police in using as much force deemed needed to control the violent situation.

The Blue Suits have a Right to Go Home at night more than a 3x convicted loser with a Weapon and bag of Addictive Narcotics.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/03/2021 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  All Californian cops should resign immediately. Enjoy the hell you voted for.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/03/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  But if a 14 year old can self identify as a 25 year old multi racial crusader, they can have a job, right?
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/03/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||

#6  I submit that Mr. Newsom is actually trying to collapse LE and, once done, can then petition the Feds for "assistance."

And thus the camel displaces the Arabian trader.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/03/2021 19:23 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Taliban tweet their military victories, I was censored during presidency: Trump to Twitter
[KhaamaPress] Former US 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......
has asked a federal judge in Florida on Friday to ask Twitter to restore his account as the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
are allowed to tweet their military victories regularly but he was censored during his presidency, Rooters reported.

Donald Trump’s Twitter account which had 88 million followers was removed by the company in January citing a risk of incitement of violence.

Twitter had reasoned that Trump’s Tweets had violated the Platform’s policy and were highly likely to encourage people to replicate what happened in the Capitol riots.

The former US president has said in his request to the district court of Florida that the company (Twitter) was coerced by the members of the US Congress to suspend his account.

The closure of Trump’s account in several social media happened after his supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6.

Twitter has not commented on Trump’s statements yet.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Economy
Biden sabotages his own Infrastructure Bill
[Politico] "The fact that the president came to the Hill and whipped against his own bill is the strangest thing I've ever seen."

That late-night observation was just one of many we heard from frustrated lawmakers and senior aides stunned by what happened in the House on Friday.

What senior Dems thought was going to happen: President JOE BIDEN was coming to the Hill to support Speaker NANCY PELOSI's efforts to rally the party behind his historic $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan ahead of a Friday vote.

What ended up happening instead: Biden told them he wanted to hold off on BIF until there was a reconciliation deal; even if that means delaying the vote for several more days or even weeks.....
the White House responded to this with banana oil
The White House pushed back on suggestions that they muscled support against their own bill. A White House official said Klain told progressives to "hang tight"; not "hold firm"; for more details on logistics.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As I've said here many times, Joe Biden is an asshole.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 10/03/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  He's also a colossal walking clusterfuck; I'll take this nice unforced error.
Posted by: Raj || 10/03/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#3  How much longer for President Magoo?
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 3:32 Comments || Top||

#4  It's my guess that unless he goes completely off the rails they will run him for president again and he will win again based on the obvious cheating from the last election.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/03/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  this a.m. Pelosi set a 31 Oct date for a vote on the BIF

this presumes, I think, that the Dems will have settled on the wording of the reconciliation, a.k.a. BuildBackBetterAct, a.k.a. 'Make American Venezuela' Act, a.k.a., GreenLeapForward Act.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/03/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#6  I think that this means that the other side of the bureaucracy won the turf wars on Thursday night and issued walking orders to Joe that were the exact opposite of the ones the other side had given to him Wednesday night.

Watch this space.
Posted by: Tom || 10/03/2021 12:57 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Louie Gohmert shares reassuring update on jailed Marine after visit
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas said the Marine who was jailed after criticizing top military officials over the Afghanistan withdrawal "looks" and "sounds good" after the two met on Thursday.

The congressman traveled to North Carolina's Camp Lejeune, where Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller is being held, for a visit and later provided a status update to his parents on Sean Hannity's Fox News program.

"There are people in that brig that like Stu, and so please know that," Gohmert told Scheller's parents, who say they have not talked to their son since he was thrown in the brig on Monday, on Hannity.

Scheller garnered attention in August when he posted a video on social media calling for accountability from military leaders over the United States's pullout from Afghanistan. He later said he was "relieved from duty" after his comments went viral and that he expected to be jailed over it.

Scheller Jr. is currently in pretrial confinement as he awaits a hearing, which has not yet been scheduled. He has not been charged, but four charges will be considered during his hearing: Article 88 (contempt toward officials), Article 90 (willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer), Article 92 (failure to obey lawful general orders), and Article 133 (conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman).

Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He hasn't been abandoned like the 1/6 political prisoners.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/03/2021 7:40 Comments || Top||


#3  Almost 100 Chinese warbirds appear over Taiwan. Bid/Milley will give Taiwan to China's Xi on a Sterling Silver Platter.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 10/03/2021 20:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Melania and White House aides called Ivanka and Jared 'the interns'
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham's new book is packed with condemnations of power couple Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump — and claims they meddled and muddied the early response to the 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...
pandemic.
From the story content, it sounds like bitchiness on the part of the author.
She writes in her new tell-all book that Kushner's 'arrogance and presumption had grown over the years, and he threw his power about with absolutely no shame.'
On the other hand, there's that Abraham Accords thing, just off the top of my head.
'He was Rasputin in a slim-fitting suit,' she writes of Trump's son-in-law, comparing him to the mystical and influential advisor to Czar Nicholas II of Russia before the 1917 revolution.
Hypnotizing the tsarina, causing the hemophiliac little prince to stop bleeding, that sort of thing. Killing him wasn't easy, and it only made him mad.
Grisham, a longtime Trump aide who later served as chief of staff to former first lady Melania Trump, writes that Kushner often took over meetings — even when Vice President Mike Pence was there — as the 'real' chief of staff.
"Jared, I'm busy with correcting Pelosi's spelling. How about going down there and stopping that meeting from turning into a clusterfornication?"
"Sure. What's the subject?"
"Peace in the Middle East."
"Okay. I can't make it come out any worse than John Kerry did, can I?"
"Heh heh. Good one!"

But she and Melania Trump also sometimes dissed Javanka as 'the interns' for their tendency to jump into all manner of subjects in the White House. 'When I worked for the first lady in the East Wing, we had all come to call Jared and Ivanka "the interns" because they represented in our minds obnoxious, entitled know-it-alls,' writes Grisham in her new book, I'll Take Your Questions Now, with her musings on Javanka excerpted in Politico.
Is it just me, or does she sound like a "obnoxious, entitled know-it-all?"
Their involvement became problematic in the early days of the pandemic, as the White House struggled to come up with a policy and a communications response. 'Mrs. Trump found that nickname amusing and occasionally used it herself. Now, during one of the most important crises to hit the country in a century, the interns were behaving true to form,' she writes.
Ahah! Having ideas, were they? Tusk tusk, as the elephant once said.
'It was another example of Jared sticking his nose into things that weren’t his expertise.'
As far as I know, no one had expertise in COVID except the Chinese at that time.
One clash came in March, after the World Health Organization had declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Top aides were debating a partial travel ban — and whether Trump should address the nation to convey the seriousness of the pandemic. Grisham invited herself to one of the meetings as, she writes, 'just "happened" all the time.'
So lemme get this straight: Jared and Ivanka weren't supposed to go, but the first lady's social secretary was?
Dr. Anthony Fauci
...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place...
and Dr. Deborah Birx were there, and advisors pitched closing the nation's borders to travelers from Europe. Another topic was whether Trump should speak to the nation amid growing alarm.
Okay. That's the setup.
'In the middle of all the discussion, Ivanka kept chiming in, "But I think there should probably be an address to the nation tonight." I let that pass because in my mind there was no way we could pull one off with no speech prepared, no communications strategy, no consensus on anything we had just started discussing, and only a few hours’ notice,' writes Grisham. 'We did a lot of random things in Trump World, but that just seemed too crazy even for us.'
Trump could wing it, and shutting down the borders is a big thing, outside of Democrat World.
Aides clashed over whether the nation should close borders (although the initial policy would take hits for being inconsistent). 'Finally, Ivanka turned to her most powerful ally besides her father. "Jared, don’t you agree?" Any guesses as to what Jared replied?' Grisham writes.
"I agree, honey. Bite my ass, Grisham. And ditch the telephone. The Washington Post is closed this time of night."
She had her own doubts about a presidential address
Who did? Grisham or Ivanka?
— but admits she didn't share them at the time. 'In my mind I kept saying, "This is not a reality TV show.
Jab at Trump there. Missed him by that much.
We cannot address the nation with a bunch of mumbo jumbo just so he looks presidential. That’s not how this works,' she wrote.
No. It wasn't a reality teevee show. The lives of millions were on the line. Or so we thought at the time.
And Ivanka, the women’s rights / small-business / crisis communications / and now Covid expert, just kept repeating, "There should be an address from the Oval."
Like she actually believed it or something.
Trump told aides to 'figure out what to do,' according to Grisham. That led to more interventions by the president's daughter, writes Grisham. Both Jared and Ivanka served as unpaid senior advisors to the president. 'Ivanka was also doing her "my father" wants this and "my father" thinks that routine, making it impossible for staff members to argue a contrary view,' she wrote.
Maybe because they had already discussed it with him before arriving at the meeting? When I was a chief of staff that's the way we did it, if it wasn't on a subject we'd already argued to death and come to an agreement.
She was 'outraged' by Kushner's behavior because 'he was not an expert' on borders, the economy, or health consequences of the moves Trump would announce.
He seemed to be on the Middle East. I understand he's a quick study. And I'll betcha he was way more of an expert on borders than the first lady's social secretary.
'After he wrote the speech, there was no time for fact-checking, vetting, or notifying friends and allies on the Hill or abroad. There was hardly any time for the president to read it and make changes to it. It was a total clusterf*** from start to finish because Ivanka and her crew wanted her father to be on TV.'
There's always that danger when you have to do things on short notice. If Roosevelt had waited for his staffniks to work over his December 7th, 1941, speech they'd still be arguing, Roosevelt would be dead, and the nation left of the Mississippi would be speaking Japanese. Und der rrright zide vould be shpeaking Cherman!
'And of course the speech that night contained a number of misstatements and sloppy wording,' she wrote. But when Trump's speech and delivery led to some confusion and required cleanup, it didn't weight down the power couple. 'No, they were in the dining room off of the Oval Office, Trump’s usual hangout, congratulating themselves and telling the president how awesome he was.'
Maybe they were expressing their opinions?
Grisham quit the White House after the Capitol riot Jan. 6th.
That was... just just two weeks before Biden's inauguration, right?
Neither Ivanka Trump nor Jared Kushner have commented on the book, although former President Trump trashed it in a statement that went after Grisham's personal life (she previously dated former Trump White House aide Max Miller).
It would have been unlike Trump not to swat at an annoying insect.
'Stephanie didn't have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning. She became very angry and bitter after her break up and as time went on she was seldom relied upon, or even thought about. She had big problems and we felt that she should work out those problems for herself. Now, like everyone else, she gets paid by a radical left-leaning publisher to say bad and untrue things,' Trump said in a statement through his spokeswoman.
So Max Miller broke her widdle heart and she took her troubles to work with her?
The ex-press secretary also recalled how Trump insisted his penis was not shaped like a toadstool - responding to comments made by porn star Stormy Daniels.
Easy enough to prove, but that would have led to a really long chapter titled "The President Drops His Drawers." Right or wrong, he would lose..
Daniels wrote in a 2018 book on her affair with the former president: 'I lay there, annoyed that I was getting f***ed by a guy with Yeti pubes and a d*** like the mushroom character in Mario Kart.'
Well, that certainly sounds tasteful. Or tasty, if you're Stormy Daniels, represented by a Creepy Porn Lawyer©.
Trump, upon hearing the allegation, called his press secretary from Air Force one to assure her his penis was neither small nor shaped like a toadstool, Grisham said.
"Boss," the press secretary replied, "you're trying to make me squirt coffee come out my nose, aren't you?"
Grisham also wrote that the former president once asked her former boyfriend, Miller, if she was good in bed.
"No. Why do you ask, boss?"
"I just noticed how fond she is of mushrooms and toadstools!"

The Daniels affair, Grisham wrote, 'unleashed' Melania's vengeance as she began trying to contradict her husband in public.
I'm sure her press secretary would be the first person my wife would tell if it was she and it was I...
The first lady told Grisham she didn't believe her husband's denials.
"Well, it is kinda stubby, and the head's twice the size of the rest of it... Maybe more like an umbrella, only without the curvy handle?"
When Grisham drafted a tweet requesting privacy at the time of the affair, saying that Melania would focus on being a first lady, wife and mother, the first lady asked Grisham to scrub the tweet of the word 'wife.'
"What should I call it?"
"I don't know! Rearrange the furniture or something! An idea will come to you!"

Trump continued the womanizing behavior he was known for as a brash Manhattan real estate tycoon at the White House, Grisham revealed, writing that he repeatedly invited a young press aide to his Air Force One cabin - one time to look at her behind.
Trump is my age., which ain't young. I can sympathize with him a lot more than I can with a woman who tells tales, true or not, out of school.
'A couple of times I came close to telling Mrs. Trump about the president's behavior. I thought that if she would say one little word to him about it, she could make it stop. But I could never bring myself to say anything,' Grisham wrote.
She could have titled her book "The Cowardly Cow."
Ultimately, she was too 'chickens***' to tell the then-first lady or 'maybe it wasn't my place or any of my business,' she noted.
Didn't want to lose her job before she was absolutely sure it was gone.
And she reveals Melania Trump may still not know about the former president's behavior.
"And why not?"
"Moo!"

Grisham revealed in her book that the former president took 'an unusual interest in a young, highly attractive press wrangler on my team.'
There are lots of girls I find uncommonly pretty. Looking isn't the same as touching. If you want touching, look in Delaware at the other end of the state from where I live.
She details what she called inappropriate behavior by Trump and noted she tried to protect the staffer, who she doesn't name.
Monica?
Grisham writes Trump would tell her to put the staffer 'on TV. Keep her happy, promote her.'
Implying it was Kayleigh McEnany, who should sue her for libel.
Trump, a former reality TV star, consider being on TV a great compliment and hired some of his staff and lawyers based on their appearances on Fox News. Grisham also reveals that on one Air Force One trip Trump asked that the staffer be brought to his cabin, saying: 'Let's bring her up here and look at her ass.' She said after that she tried to keep the staffer off trips: 'I needed to protect her and, frankly, the president as well.'
Never having seen either or both of Ms McEnany's buttocks, I couldn't say, but I can't think of a wittier and more solidly grounded press secretary. Certainly not Ms Grisham.
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#1  Strange, they actually accomplished several things.
Tell us what it was you did.
Also, the Covid response would have been in your zone, wouldn't it?
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/03/2021 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2  You know, if I wanted just straight up catty gossip, I'd read old Luella Parsons or Hedda Hopper columns. They both did this shtick a lot better than the current crop.
Posted by: Tom || 10/03/2021 12:58 Comments || Top||

#3  It was another example of Jared sticking his nose into things that weren’t his expertise.

Kinda like a Middle East/Israeli peace initiative?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 13:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Ms. Grisham certainly has a higher opinion of her own mad skillz and accomplishments than the rest of the population. Enjoy your unemployment. Neither side will trust you now.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2021 13:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Trying her best to prevent Trump from winning a third time.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/03/2021 15:47 Comments || Top||


Report: Nancy Pelosi Offers Far-Left $2.1 Trillion Reconciliation Package
[BREITBART] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
(D-CA) reportedly offered the radical House Democrats a price tag of $2.1 trillion for the reconciliation package, down from $3.5 trillion but more expensive than Sen. Joe Manchin
...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents...
’s (D-WV) topline of $1.5 trillion.The offered package to the House Democrats includes items such as child care, paid leave, health care, and climate change, according to Politico Playbook.
Don't settle for less, ya commie bastards. Stay strong. And you too, Joe! Stalemate is our best option at this point
The offer presents which measures may survive the trimmed but still large package and which measures may be removed. "For instance, there was no mention of things like free community college or affordable housing or even Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
’ prized expansion of Medicare to offer dental, vision and hearing benefits," Playbook reports.

The reported compromise is still far outside Manchin’s $1.5 trillion topline number that he divulged Thursday on a signed piece of paper. The signed document in July is an agreement between Manchin and Sen. Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.82540 years, or 320.7778 years in dog years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
(D-NY), which outlined that the reconciliation package would be $1.5 trillion with debate on the package beginning no later than October 1.



Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is more like their actual target. The 3.5T was just an inflated starting bid that they knew would never be accepted allowing them to 'compromise' down to this 2.1 (or slightly lower) boondoggle.
Next their 'opponents' (Both D and too many R) will swallow their pride and accept this 'at least its lower then 3.5T' offer. Which is what everyone wanted all along. They might even slip in a few 'Election Reform' provisions in the mix...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/03/2021 17:06 Comments || Top||


Kamala Harris takes private, one-night stand trip to California as Capitol Hill talks peak
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
was making an unexplained private trip Friday to the resort town of Palm Springs, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, as Democrats in Congress sought to complete President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us......
’s economic agenda.

The White House and Ms. Harris’ office wouldn’t give a reason for the one-night trip, which began on Friday afternoon with her departure from Joint Base Andrews near Washington.

Reporters were not allowed to watch her departure.
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a. Personal meet with someone who does not wish to be seen in to D.C.

b. Acting as a private courier to bring something back to D.C.

c. Clandestine medical treatment.

d. All of the above.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2021 3:10 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Not new type of shoes in her favorite boutique?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2021 3:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Meeting one of her wealthy California clients for a quick cash infusion. Follow the money with this one.

Note that Palm Springs is about as far from the limelight as one can get in California -- and still score a five-star hotel
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 3:25 Comments || Top||

#4  A little facework?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 6:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Out patient follow up at Betty Ford??? Might be seeing shrink due to her poll numbers.....
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 10/03/2021 6:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Ref #5: Follow-up trips to come? The construction of disqualification for advancement and sympathy?

The downside of chronic addiction.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2021 8:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Botox top-up
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#8  An assignation for some quick cash
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 10:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Easier explanation: Get Kammie out of town so something can be accomplished. Although the payoff is plausible.
Alternate: they had to get her back to SiliVal for a software update, trying to fix that horrible cackle.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/03/2021 12:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Since it was a provate jet, we, the taxpayers, don't get to ask what the purpose of the trip was.

Unless, the media did.

Oh, never mind.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/03/2021 13:13 Comments || Top||

#11  the 'Pelosi special' a shot of Botox and some face stretching.
Posted by: Retard Strength || 10/03/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Maybe a bit of mouth-stretching too... Where's Willie Brown?
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 16:37 Comments || Top||

#13  Hey now! Don't be puttin' Willie words in her mouf!
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2021 16:44 Comments || Top||

#14  Wasn't going to add anything but WTF... My guess is that her -er- mouth is plenty big enough. Maybe a little (or a lot) tightening? Campaigning was quite a workout...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/03/2021 17:01 Comments || Top||

#15  Maybe she finally has a date!
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 10/03/2021 17:52 Comments || Top||

#16  The Betty Ford Center is 20 min south of Palm Springs, just curious coincidence?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/03/2021 19:11 Comments || Top||

#17  Does Betty Ford have a cure for cackling?
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 19:21 Comments || Top||

#18  BFO moment, what if it isn't her, but her step daughter?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/03/2021 19:26 Comments || Top||

#19  Concealed departure, private jet, hidden arrival, big mystery about location of overnight, and immediate trip back, arrival less hidden. Hiding the highly visible daughter and obvious drug treatment candidate....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/03/2021 19:37 Comments || Top||


Ohio's DeWine, Others Consider Redistricting Map that Would Eliminate Jim Jordan's District
[BREITBART] Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, state auditor Keith Faber, and Secretary of State Frank LaRose are considering offering and adopting a redistricting map ahead of the 2022 midterm elections that would be overly beneficial and lopsided toward helping Democrats retain their U.S. House majority, Breitbart News has learned.

Two senior Republican officials briefed on the proposal before its expected introduction next week told Breitbart News that DeWine, Faber, and LaRose are considering drawing a number of pro-Trump Republicans into Democrat-leaning districts as part of retaliation against former President Donald Trump, who the three establishment GOP leaders dislike. The two senior Republicans briefed on the plan told Breitbart News they believe this retaliation from DeWine and others is an effort to steer the GOP away from Trump, who won the the state of Ohio by huge margins in both 2016 and 2020, because they do not like the direction the party is currently going.

The map currently under consideration, these GOP officials said, could jeopardize as many as four or five GOP congressional districts in Ohio—a crushing blow to GOP efforts to retake the U.S. House majority. To retake the majority, Republicans currently need to flip a net five seats or more from Democrat hands into GOP hands in November next year—something that losing several seats in deep-red Ohio could seriously complicate.

A GOP source who has seen the map that DeWine as of now intends to introduce next week told Breitbart News that it would eliminate the district of Trump stalwart Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), pushing it entirely into deep-blue Columbus, Ohio, the state capital, instead.

The map DeWine is planning to introduce would also pit Reps. Mike Turner (R-OH) and Warren Davidson (R-OH) against each other, drawing both of them into a Dayton-based district. This is because Ohio lost a congressional district in reapportionment after the 2020 U.S. Census. But instead of eliminating a Democrat-held district, the DeWine team is, per this Republican familiar with the map, planning to pit two Republicans against each other.

“This would be Speaker Pelosi’s dream map in Ohio and severely impact Republicans’ chances at retaking the House majority,” a senior GOP aide told Breitbart News.

There remains time to stop DeWine’s efforts to help Pelosi and Democrats keep their majority with this unfair and lopsided map, though, as they have yet to publicly introduce it. If conservatives voice their concerns to the governor and raise issue with it and pressure him to change his ways and stop helping Democrats out of spite for Trump, it is possible he could reverse course.

Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Traitorous scum.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 10/03/2021 8:31 Comments || Top||

#2  A 'President Jordan' has a nice ring to it. "Go ahead, skin that smoke wagon."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  The new Democrat Socialist order.
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||


Nat'l Teachers Union Prez Panicked DeSantis Will Trigger Flight To Private Schools
[DAILYWIRE] The powerful head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, is apparently panicked that the policies of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will trigger parents to pluck their children out of public schools, where Weingarten and her ilk can inculcate their leftist messaging, and place them in private schools instead.
She doesn't seem to want to fix the problem by having her members stick to teaching and dump the politix.
On Thursday, Weingarten referencing an article in the leftist The New Republic that attacked DeSantis for his policies, tweeted, “This isn’t just about masks or about Governor DeSantis’ political aspirations. It’s about the complete destabilization of public education so that parents will choose private schools.”

The New Republic had huffed, “Florida’s recent struggles over masks in schools augur a terrifying shift in the right’s approach to education policy,” then quickly gave a salient reason for the Left’s panic:

Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please - she's trying to blame DeSantis for this? They did this to themselves because they were too fuckin' stupid, greedy and shortsighted to figure out this would backfire on them. CRT's the cherry on top of the shit sundae they're now eating.
Posted by: Raj || 10/03/2021 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Don't worry about teachers promoting CRT. Worry about math teachers not being able to teach math - because they don't know any beyond rote memorization, science teachers who only talk about global warming, and English teachers who are functionally illiterate.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2021 1:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Death spiral for government schools.

If they can't enroll more than 60-70 percent of the school-aged population, many schools will have to lay off teachers and other staff, which will reduce the range of academic offerings and extracurricular activities they can provide -- which in turn makes the school less attractive to parents who actually care about academic excellence.

Who then choose charters, or private schools or homeschools, and on the downward cycle goes
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 3:37 Comments || Top||



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