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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sanctuary State: Six-Time Deported Illegal Alien Guilty of Triple Murder
[Breitbart] A six-time deported illegal alien has been found guilty of murdering three individuals in the sanctuary state of Oregon.

On June 27, 2016, illegal alien Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez arrived at a housing unit where he had been living with fellow employees for a nearby blueberry farm.

While in the kitchen of the residence, Gonzalez fired a loaded gun at Edmundo Amando-Bajonero before shooting Refugio Modesto De La Cruz, Katie Gildersleeve, and Rigoberto Reyes-Mendoza.

While De La Cruz survived the gunshot wounds, Amando-Bajonero, Gildersleeve, and Reyes-Mendoza all died at the scene. Even as Gildersleeve tried to flee, Gonzalez chased her into the driveway, trying to shoot her again and eventually grabbing a knife to stab her.

Gonzalez, after his arrest, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder with a firearm and two counts of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm. Prosecutors have since settled with Gonzalez, committing him to a lifetime of oversight by the state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board.

Should Gonzalez be released from the Oregon State Hospital at any time, he will carry out the remaining 25-year sentence under the jurisdiction of the Oregon Department of Corrections.

Gonzalez was first deported from the United States to Mexico in 2003 but was rearrested in Oregon in 2007 before being deported again. Gonzalez was arrested on local charges in Marion County, Oregon, in 2009 and was turned over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency for his third deportation.

In 2010, Gonzalez was twice arrested along the Arizona-Mexico border by U.S. Border Patrol agents and each time deported him to Mexico. He was last deported in 2013 after again illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. He returned to the U.S. at a later date.

Oregon has a rigid sanctuary state policy that bans public officials and law enforcement from cooperating with ICE agents — shielding criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2022 08:51 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Unhappy Valentine's Day! NYC Mayor Eric Adams fires 1,400 government workers who failed to get COVID vaccine by deadline, including 36 cops, 25 FDNY workers and 914 education workers
  • Mayor Eric Adams fired more than 1,400 unvaccinated government workers who did not abide by the city's deadline to receive at least one jab by February 11

  • Within those who were fired - 36 NYPD personnel, 25 Fire Department workers and 914 Department of Education staffers were included

  • The 1,430 workers who lost their jobs represent less than 1 percent of the 370,000-person city workforce

  • New York City has imposed some of the most sweeping vaccine mandates in the country, requiring almost all city workers to be vaccinated

  • The Big Apple also requires private employers to ensure their workers get vaccinated as well
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2022 07:30 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot. Who are you going to call when you need a cop or fire fighter? Is there going to be accountability for your decision/actions? Rhetorical question, IMA know the answer also. This guy is turning out to be like de Blasio.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/15/2022 12:04 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought it was next to impossible to fire a NYC teacher. I recall stories of dedicated buildings they were assigned to report to, not to teach, just sit.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 02/15/2022 15:55 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Judge to dismiss Sarah Palin case against N.Y. Times regardless of jury verdict
NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge said on Monday he will throw out Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times (NYT.N), after concluding that an editorial in the newspaper did not maliciously link the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate to a mass murder.

In an abrupt twist in a trial seen as a test of longstanding protections for American media, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said Palin's lawsuit must be dismissed because she failed to show the Times acted with "actual malice," the standard in lawsuits involving public figures.

The judge ruled on the trial's eighth day while jurors were still deliberating, and did not inform them of his plan. Rakoff said he plans to enter a formal dismissal only after jurors, who began deliberations on Friday, reach their own verdict.

Rakoff said he expected Palin to appeal, and that the appeals court "would greatly benefit from knowing how the jury would decide it."

His action effectively takes the case out of the hands of jurors. "If you see anything in the media about this case, just turn away," Rakoff told them before dismissing them for the day.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2022 02:01 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The judge ruled on the trial's eighth day while jurors were still deliberating, and did not inform them of his plan.

Sensed a conviction was eminent did he ?


Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2022 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course. When an election can be won without voters, who needs a jury for a case?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2022 2:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Total shitshow. USSA now
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/15/2022 2:28 Comments || Top||

#4  The 14th Amendment -

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Once again our life sitting autocrats ignore the plain language of 'the' law. You can not have two standards of law, one for public and one for private persons.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/15/2022 7:48 Comments || Top||

#5  UniParty, Oligarchs, FB-eye, Black Lies Murder: above the law
Deplorables, ordinary whites: below the law
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/15/2022 9:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Palin's lawsuit must be dismissed because she failed to show the Times acted with "actual malice,"

Definitely not a lawyer, but isn't that the question the jury is supposed to decide? There is some lawyerly buzz floating around about how dismissing the case while still directing the jury to deliberate is not weird, no matter how weird it sounds. I don't get it.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/15/2022 10:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Then the Queen of Hearts bellowed, "Sentence First! Then the verdict, and then trial by jury!"
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/15/2022 10:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Wasn't this always looking for an appeal, and does this prevent that by being dismissed?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/15/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Judge Jed Rake-off...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||

#10  Maybe it's best if it goes to SCOTUS with the result that SCOTUS throws Sullivan V New York Times out the the window.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/15/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Its moot. Jury ruled against Palin.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 02/15/2022 18:08 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Trudeau to use emergency powers across Canada: Official
[AlAhram] Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
...hereditary prime minister of the same country that once produced McKenzie King...
has decided to invoke emergency powers across all of Canada to quell the protests by demonstrators who have paralyzed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country's COVID-19 restrictions, a senior government official said Monday.

The prime minister met virtually with the leaders of Canada's provinces and planned to address the nation late in the afternoon.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  " The vast majority of Canadians are vaccinated, and the COVID-19 death rate is one-third that of the United States" numbers you can trust.
Posted by: Dale || 02/15/2022 4:14 Comments || Top||


#3  Rat -> corner
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2022 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Power the ultimate drug for humans.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/15/2022 7:54 Comments || Top||

#5  And probably one-third less obese.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/15/2022 9:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Complains about 'fascists' and orders an 'Emergency Decree', typical
Posted by: magpie || 02/15/2022 10:42 Comments || Top||

#7  death rate is one-third that of the United States
Infection rate per population is about 1/3 US too, but deaths per infection are about the same.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/15/2022 10:54 Comments || Top||

#8  And Canada went from turn in your rifles, please, to North American Gulags in, what, four years too?

Pondering.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||

#9  It does not seems as if the Emergency Powers applies to this situation. Bottom line, Canada learns that its PM (Troodo the Turd) is a tool and tyrant. I don't think we have seen the end to pushback.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/15/2022 11:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Standard question by which you will be able to identify all non-state media in North America going forward: "Do you feel the measures taken in Canada were overreach and will you commit to not doing similar in the future?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||

#11  It is on-its-face disproportionate response, and sullies the actual use of an emergency measure.

And to have Turdo and Witchmore tin can on about the loss of trade is laughable bullshit when everyone knows they both have spent 2 full years destroying trade.

Somewhat related after discussing the disarming of New Zealand and Canada and about four years later:

President Joe Biden kicked off the week by using the fourth anniversary of the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., to double down on his calls for harsher gun control.

Hmmmmmmm. Wasn't that hog fellow's father FBI or something?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2022 12:22 Comments || Top||

#12  Read a good point; because this is not a real emergency like being invaded, or Nova Scotia sinking, meteor strike, Gamera coming ashore, then this is a social credit score attached to your bank account.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2022 12:58 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ it's here. We really need to detach and drop out. Separate from these sick mofos. Create our own institutions: our own companies, internet/digital infrastructure, our own schools and colleges, our own law enforcement.

Create our own currencies and bank transfer mechanisms, and secure our own supplies of food electricity and water.

These assholes are insane. I never imagined that we could actually live through such a dystopian nightmare as this.

Time to separate from these monsters.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/15/2022 13:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Another noticed, "Went from monitoring for potential drug laundering, to you will starve in the cold, pretty quick."

Again, went from small fringe minority to Holy Shit I Need Absolute Power to Crush Them!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2022 13:16 Comments || Top||

#15  Re #14. Start w/ separation of School and State.

No direct government funding of any kind at any level of government for education, Preschool through PhD, except perhaps for those who are wards of the state.

Ban state certification of educators.
Posted by: Lemuel Bumble4423 || 02/15/2022 13:25 Comments || Top||

#16  I am curious how these "emergency powers" will keep Canadian grocery stores stocked. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 02/15/2022 13:54 Comments || Top||

#17  Did Canada block Hydrochloroquine the way they tried in the US? I mean if they did better i imagine they'd be yelling it to the rooftops and claiming Universal health Care was the difference.
Posted by: ruprecht || 02/15/2022 14:00 Comments || Top||

#18  Let me get this straight:

By law, and by law I understand there is no law concerning covid shots and protocols, only declarations, this action must be submitted to and approved by Parliament within 7 days.

IIUC correct, Justin the Techy's approval was in the shitter even before this dictate. IIUC neutrals and even nominal allies are going, "Dude, that isn't what that button is for."

Is it possible here that Justin the Techy, trying to look tough for his wardrobe man, actually set the amount of time the convoy only needs to hold out?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2022 15:53 Comments || Top||

#19  GiveSendGo hacked, donors doxxed. Canadian Broadcast Company shows its ass, acting as inquisitors.

Foul.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2022 16:08 Comments || Top||

#20  make beer and strippers illegal 100% compliance overnight!
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 02/15/2022 16:20 Comments || Top||

#21  #11 swksvolFF Turdo" Chuckle. I'd trademark that. "Witchmore" too.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/15/2022 17:37 Comments || Top||

#22  State run CBC sez that "Freedom" is now a buzzword of the far right. Commies gonna commie.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/15/2022 17:49 Comments || Top||

#23  Authorities seized 13 long guns, handguns, sets of body armor, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition, and high-capacity magazines.

Possible false flag operation to justify the Emergency Powers?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/15/2022 18:07 Comments || Top||

#24  Suspicious timing for sure.

Machete? Really?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2022 18:21 Comments || Top||

#25  It should be noted that with as deceptive the media has been, it could be that a Blamtifa cell was about to do more than attempted vehicular homicide, something which couldn't be poo-poo'd, busted them, and framed the operation as if it were Trucker Joe pulling an ATF Valentine's Day operation.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2022 18:25 Comments || Top||

#26  Machete? Really?

Perhaps kudzu has extended its range further north than we realized. Who knows what with the border being closed the last couple years.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/15/2022 18:31 Comments || Top||

#27  "You fascist Ungeziefer..."
Shrieks freaky Herr Antifa,
"Und sneaky fuckin' Russian!"
She punches.
"End discussion!"
Posted by: Harry Cromort5858 || 02/15/2022 20:44 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Clinton Campaign Lawyer Gave ‘Sensitive' Trump Data to CIA, Special Counsel Claims
[Free Beacon] A lawyer for the Clinton campaign in early 2017 gave computer data to the CIA that was obtained from the Trump White House and Trump Tower’s computer servers through a "sensitive" government contract, according to Special Counsel John Durham.
Gave? But, but, but I thought nothing was free ?
Durham alleged in A Court Filing that Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer who worked for the Clinton campaign, met with the CIA in February 2017 to provide the agency with a dossier of purported computer links between Trump and Russia. Sussmann obtained the sensitive data from a tech executive whose firm monitored web traffic for the White House executive office. Rodney Joffe, the executive, "exploited" the White House data, as well as that of Trump Tower and Donald Trump’s apartment building in Manhattan, in order to find "derogatory" information about Trump’s ties to Russia, according to Durham. The prosecutor said his investigators have found no evidence to support the information Sussmann passed to the CIA.

Durham leveled the explosive allegation in a court filing Friday as part of the federal case against Sussmann. He is Charged with lying to the FBI in September 2016 about the extent of his efforts to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia. He is also accused of withholding information from the CIA during his February 2017 meeting that undercut the theory of nefarious web links between Trump and Russia. Durham refers to the CIA as "Agency-2" throughout court filings, but news outlets have Confirmed the identify of the agency.

The court filing shows the extent to which Clinton operatives went to portray Trump as an agent of Russia. Sussmann’s fellow Clinton campaign lawyer, Marc Elias, commissioned the Steele dossier, which falsely accused Trump of colluding with Russia in order to win the 2016 election. Elias Briefed Clinton campaign officials, including current national security adviser Jake Sullivan, about the investigation of Trump. Sussmann and Elias also provided their findings to media outlets in order to prompt investigations into Trump.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2022 01:14 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unsolicited was it? Sussmann simply gave it to them did he, no strings attached? A simple, philanthropic gesture ?

Of course the Klingons, not wishing to violate the prohibition against intelligence collection targeting of US Citizens, quickly reported the incident to the DoJ and FBI. The FBI now has the data stored safely adjacent the Hunter laptops.

Excuse me while I anxiously await news of the Jeffrey Epstein Little St James US Virgin Island - Clinton Foundation connection. Yes, the connection Julian Assange and Seth Rich were stumbling all around.

Strange isn't it, just when we were starting to remove our COVID masks and feel good about ourselves, so many imprisoned, so many dead? It's nearly too much to process.

I recommend Prince Andrew remain at the Balmoral Royal Game Keepers cottage until all of this unpleasantness blows over.



Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2022 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  The FBI now has the data stored safely adjacent the Hunter laptops

(spews coffee)
Posted by: Matt || 02/15/2022 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Best comprehensiver deep dive, sourced and detailed description of not only the RussiaGate hoaxing, but the entire Obama era transformation of the federal executive branch...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/12/the-surveillance-and-political-spying-operations-highlighted-by-john-durham-are-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/#more-227462
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/15/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Wasn't the head of agency at that time the Islam-loving, communist-voting JohnnyB?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/15/2022 17:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Latest news: Biden employs the same firm and did so during the campaign...

Connect the dots anyone?
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 02/15/2022 18:09 Comments || Top||


White House refuses to answer question on Durham probe revelations
[FOX] White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer questions about the Durham probe during Monday's press briefing despite new revelations regarding Democratic efforts to link former President Donald Trump to Russia.

"I can't speak to that report," Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday. "I refer you to the Department of Justice."

The exchange comes afters special counsel John Durham released in a filing Saturday alleging that lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to infiltrate servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to government agencies linking Trump to Russia.

The court filing alleges that the tech executive used company access to government domain name system data through a pending cybersecurity contract with the government.

Durham probe has 'accelerated,' with more people 'cooperating,' coming before grand jury

[FOX] FIRST ON FOX: Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation has "accelerated," and more people are "cooperating" and coming before the federal grand jury than has previously been reported, a source familiar with the probe told Fox News.

The source told Fox News Monday that Durham has run his investigation "very professionally," and, unlike Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, his activities, and witness information and cooperation status are rarely, if ever, leaked.

"Durham does this right and keeps it a secret," the source said, adding that there has been "much more activity" in Durham’s investigation "than has been visible to the public."

The closest look Durham has given with regard to grand jury witnesses came in a federal court filing last month, outlining materials that had been provided by the special counsel’s office to defense attorneys for former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann.

Sussmann has been charged making a false statement to a federal agent. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


#2  IMHO, Obummer greenlighted Hillary's clown show. Other Dem leaders must have known that this coup against Trump was going on too.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/15/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||

#3  "I can't speak to that report," Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday. "I refer you to the Department of Justice."

Good luck asking Merrick Garland about it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/15/2022 13:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
New spying claims snare Hillary Clinton but don't tarnish image with Dems or quell 2024 buzz
[Washington Times] Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is the subject of accusations in court documents that her campaign spied on Donald Trump, but supporters in her party are shrugging off the claim ahead of her much-anticipated speech before the New York State Democratic Party Convention on Thursday.

Democrats say the bombshell accusations from special counsel John Durham are just more reckless attacks, and they won’t let it spoil daydreams about Mrs. Clinton standing in for President Biden in 2024 if necessary.

"I think this is going to be met with an eye roll," Dora Leland, chairwoman of the Chemung County, New York, Democratic Committee, told The Washington Times. "People are tired, or at least Democrats are tired, of all the incessant attacks on her, and a lot of them just come up warrantless and without any basis in fact."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2022 07:39 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She is running to keep from being prosecuted.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 02/15/2022 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  The majority of independents are fed up with her now. She goes nowhere in a general election without their support.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2022 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  "People are tired, or at least [Republicans] are tired, of all the incessant attacks on [Trump], and a lot of them just come up warrantless and without any basis in fact."
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/15/2022 9:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Dora Leland, chairwoman of the Chemung County, New York, Democratic Committee....

You want an "eye roll". Jesus.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/15/2022 9:17 Comments || Top||

#5  actually a lot of Democrats hate Hillary

the leftist fringe which is mostly in control of the party is full of Hillary haters
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/15/2022 9:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Basically, Democrats are OK with breaking the law, as long it's one of their people doing the lawbreaking.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/15/2022 10:21 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 actually a lot of Democrats hate Hillary
Mensheviks vs Bolsheviks
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/15/2022 10:24 Comments || Top||

#8  a recent book review in Jacobin (Jacobin magazine is the flagship of the fringe left) has this anti Hillary stuff


Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/15/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  By campaigning she gets to remain visible, and the overhead for staff and travel is covered by other people's money. And whatever is left afterwards she gets to keep...grifters always gotta grift!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/15/2022 12:21 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Still paying Humma to keep her rug munching trap shut.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Where's Carlos Danger these days?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/15/2022 12:47 Comments || Top||

#12  really would be cool if the Durham investigation uncovered Hillary's team spying on Bernie in 2016
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/15/2022 15:46 Comments || Top||

#13  Mrs. Clinton couldn’t beat The Donald back when he was an unknown quantity, even with the entire establishment working to pull her over the finish line. I strongly believe she would be the perfect standard bearer for the Democratic Party two years from now, when campaigning from the basement won’t be possible.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2022 16:57 Comments || Top||

#14  Also, any money donated to her campaign is money taken from other Democratic politicians with a better chance of winning their races, a very good thing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2022 17:39 Comments || Top||

#15  By the way, the same internet company and people that were doing the spying on Trump while he was in the whitehouse also happen to have been on the payroll of the Biden campaign.

Too bad we no longer have a free press.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 02/15/2022 18:11 Comments || Top||

#16  Seems so long since Admiral Mike Rogers went to Trump Towers and blew the whistle on this spying operation. Trump temporarily moved his transition operations. What was it 2016?

This still needs to be cleaned up as well as the 2020 Big Steal before we as a country can move on.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/15/2022 21:12 Comments || Top||


AOC Says Congress Is a 'S--t Show,' Attributes Crime Surge to Child Tax Credit Expiration
[Townhall] Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) in a recent interview slammed Congress as a "s--t show" and said that the failure to extend the child tax credit through the Build Back Better Act has led to the rise in crime seen in cities across the country.
America's Dumbest Bartender, depreciating the value of Boston U economics degrees daily
The progressive congresswoman explained to the New Yorker in an interview published Monday that Congress is a "s--t show" and is "scandalizing" every day.

"What is surprising to me is how it never stops being scandalizing," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Some folks perhaps get used to it, or desensitized to the many different things that may be broken, but there is so much reliance on this idea that there are adults in the room, and, in some respect, there are. But sometimes to be in a room with some of the most powerful people in the country and see the ways that they make decisions—sometimes they’re just susceptible to groupthink, susceptible to self-delusion."

She also suggested that the U.S. may no longer have a democracy in the years to come, prompting the interviewer to press her on the matter.

"I think there's a very real risk that we will not. What we risk is having a government that perhaps postures as a democracy, and may try to pretend that it is, but isn't," Ocasio-Cortez said, adding that she believes the country is at risk of returning to Jim Crow.

The Democrat claimed that the child tax credit expiring at the end of 2021 may have led to the crime spike in a number of U.S. cities.

"We don't want to say some of the things that are obvious, like, 'Gee, the child-tax credit just ran out, on December 31st, and now people are stealing baby formula.' We don't want to have that discussion," she said. "We want to say these people are criminals or we want to talk about 'people who are violent,' instead of 'environments of violence,' and what we’re doing to either contribute to that or dismantle that."

The child tax credit was included in the American Rescue Plan but expired at the end of December after Congress failed to pass Build Back Better or a standalone credit.

A $3,600 a year credit per child for parents of children under six, and a $3,000 a year credit per child for children between the ages of six and 18 was included in the American Rescue Plan. Now, after the expiration, parents will only receive the $2,000 per child credit included in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2022 01:41 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Didn't take a bartender long to break the congressional code. Have to give her some credit for that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2022 6:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I blame it on a the social impact of constant changing of standard and daylight savings time. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)

It makes as much sense as AOCs stipulations.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/15/2022 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  The sad thing is, as clueless as she is, People will still vote for her. A recent poll of her constituents revealed that although most said she has done little or nothing for them they will still vote for her.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/15/2022 8:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Baby formula has been a target of organized retail crime for YEARS. The price lets the fronts get a decent profit while still undercutting the legitimate stores.

Why does the left insist on giving their opinion when they've done zero research into an issue?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/15/2022 8:37 Comments || Top||

#5  It proves the old saying...
"Even the village idiot nails it occasionally."

But she then kept talking proving she was still the village idiot.

Ref her Jim Crow mid-term timed comment:
The only way the USA will return to "Jim Crow" is if WHITES are the new discriminated race. Which, it seems 80+% of the Liberal, Socialist, Democrats pushing it in that direction, have not looked themselves in a mirror in a long time.

REF: "Baby formula has been a target of organized retail crime for YEARS. " Large and street level drug dealers use it to dilute drugs like heroin and Meth.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/15/2022 9:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Going on to prove it is a nice touch.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2022 11:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes, AOC, it is a shit show and it got even shittier when you were elected.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/15/2022 13:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Speaking of shitshows... the hits just keep on comin':
Wholesale Prices Jump 9.7% in January, Further Evidence of Red-Hot Inflation
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/15/2022 15:13 Comments || Top||

#9  "Congress is S--t Show," says one of the stars of the show.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/15/2022 21:16 Comments || Top||



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