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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Lincoln Project founder messaged 14 year-old boy for sex, NYT discovers
[Citizen Free Press] Two weeks after conservatives outed Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver as a sexual pervert who was grooming boys as young as 14 years old, the New York Times is finally running the story themselves.

The man who helped build an organization that spent millions attacking President Trump and his supporters has been accused by 21 men of sending unwanted sexual advances. In one case, he messaged a boy as young as 14.

How did they get so much money? Film producer David Geffen gave $500,000, Google parent Alphabet gave $130,000, and the University of California gave nearly $300,000.


Want the literal receipts on the Lincoln Project? You know I got you covered. pic.twitter.com/K8Nr0EUYhx

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 31, 2021
Posted by: Wholulet Thigum4957 || 02/01/2021 00:05 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are there some hidden sinister forces who intentionally promote the careers of people who can be blackmailed easily?

Or is this suspicion just crimethink a conspiracy theory?

</sarc>
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 02/01/2021 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  What a sick twisted political class we have
These are the corrupt shits who hounded Trump. Literally every false charge they made against him is actually true of one or more of their own.
Posted by: Hupens Dribble5813 || 02/01/2021 2:17 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
After other attorneys leave, Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team
[IsraelTimes] One lawyer is best known for declining to charge Bill Cosby with rape while serving as district attorney near Philadelphia.

Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
on Sunday named two lawyers to his impeachment defense team, one day after it was revealed that the former president had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys.

The two lawyers representing him will be David Schoen, a criminal defense lawyer with offices in Alabama and New York, and Bruce Castor, a former county prosecutor in Pennsylvania. Both issued statements through a Trump adviser saying that they were honored to take the job.

"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history. It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always," said Castor, who served as district attorney for Montgomery County, outside of Philadelphia, from 2000 to 2008.

Trump’s team revealed Saturday that several South Carolina lawyers who were set to represent him at the trial starting next week were no longer participating.

Trump, the first president in American history to be impeached twice, is set to stand trial in the Senate on a charge that he incited his supporters to storm Congress on Jan. 6 as politicians met to certify Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
’s electoral victory.

Republicans and Trump aides have made clear that they intend to make a simple argument in the trial: Trump’s trial is unconstitutional because he is no longer in office. Legal scholars say there is no bar to an impeachment trial despite Trump having left the White House.

"The Democrats’ efforts to impeach a president who has already left office is totally unconstitutional and so bad for our country," Trump adviser Jason Miller has said.

Castor is as well-known in Pennsylvania for a case that he did not bring as he is for any of the prosecutions that he brought. He declined to charge actor Bill Cosby after a woman went to police in suburban Philadelphia in 2005 to say that Cosby had drugged and molested her a year earlier.

A new prosecutor arrested Cosby in 2015 after documents from her 2005 civil suit against Cosby were unsealed, revealing Cosby’s damaging testimony about sexual encounters with the woman, Andrea Constand, and others.

Related: Why Five of Trump's Impeachment Lawyers Are Out
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Dems and the Bar are going after his team, yet again.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/01/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Everybody is entitled to a defense. Except Trump, of course.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/01/2021 15:07 Comments || Top||

#3  I really, really, really want this impeachment to go forward.

But not for the same reasons Nancy Pelosi does; I wonder how hard Mr. Leahy is thinking about discovery...
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/01/2021 22:20 Comments || Top||

#4  After Sidney Powell and Rudy...and Bill Barr, just 'cuz, I grow weary of stories about Trump's lawyers.
Posted by: Clem || 02/01/2021 22:27 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder how hard Mr. Leahy is thinking about discovery...

It’s the Senate. Do rules about discovery, innocent until proven guilty, and all the rest apply?
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/01/2021 22:33 Comments || Top||

#6  How old is Leahy? Pelosi? Biden? Feinstein? Schumer?

And they complained about Reagan being too old to be prez? GTFOH!
Posted by: Clem || 02/01/2021 22:42 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libya has Highest Rate of COVID-19 in North Africa
On Page 3: Non-War on Terror, although I am convinced at least part of Libya’s problem — beside the war, I mean — is the constant movement of myriads of migrants from all over the continent and beyond, all bringing their local disease with them.
[LibyaReview] On Wednesday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Libya announced that the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Libya amounted to 1,479 per 100,000 people, registering the highest rate in North Africa.

According to OCHA’s statistics, the number of deaths are 22 deaths per 100,000 people, the second highest in the region after Tunisia.

Total number of cases are estimated at 116,064 cases, 1,802 deaths, and 95,406 successful recoveries, according to the latest update by the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC).

The Libyan authorities have approved new precautionary measures against the virus, including temporarily closing schools, and closing all restaurants and cafe’s.

Dr.Badr al-Din al-Najjar, Director of the NCDC has recently stated that the situation in the country is "getting worse and 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...
cases increase every day in the country." al-Najjar stressed the need to resort to total closure of the country in case the current situation worsens.

Since the first case was reported in March, Libyan authorities have taken a series of precautionary measures against the pandemic, including closing the country’s borders, shutting down schools and mosques, banning public gatherings, and imposing a curfew.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
China is Sending People to Prison for Tweets it Doesn't Like
[Outkick - Via the Whatfinger Dumpster] China’s Communist Party has sentenced more than 50 people to prison in the past three years for using Twitter and other platforms banned in China to criticize Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his government.
Before you go "Tsk, Tsk" check out this video
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  OLD NEWS ? Maybe not - Buried in obscure report from an "unreliable source" - If Trump is Convicted this Month, somebody else could face 20 years, and Dominos will continue to fall.

Obama Facing 20 Years In PRISON After What He Quietly Just Did To Trump
Posted by: Theng Prince of the Danes1588 || 02/01/2021 4:26 Comments || Top||

#2  How do you say Lavrentiy Beria in Chinese?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/01/2021 4:40 Comments || Top||

#3  魔 <--- As close as I could translate

means devil, demon, evil; pronounces as "mó"

Its as close as Lavrentiy Beria to me, how about to you ?

Posted by: Theng Prince of the Danes1588 || 02/01/2021 5:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe coming to America too soon.

A Great Leader Citizen Announcement

Our Great leader - The Buy Dung has proclaimed Comrades have a voice and he wishes to hear what you have to say.

Therefore it is proclaimed, on this day, the 13th day of the New Common Unified Peoples Era.

The Great Leader has decreed we must have,
SOCIAL MONITORING.

Now every citizens thoughts and writing will be heard and given the deepest attention by The Great Leader Buy Dung and his appointed staff.

Those thoughts judged worthy will be rewarded with a personal visit by his appointed staff. Based on the outcome of extended intense interactive discussions. Those worthy and their families will be rewarded a vacation to one of the several newly remodeled Citizen Resorts which are remotely located for peaceful and relaxing quiet.

Note these newly remodeled Resorts are: Peoples Resort #1 Johnson Island, #2 Deer Island, #3 Attu Island, #4 Johnston Atoll, and #5 Diego Garcia.

More are planned as the number of worthy Citizens found grows.

It is not surprising a growing number of those that are rewarded this honor, have applied for positions and allowed to stay permanently. Some even allotted a small but extremely suitable Living area, with everything provided for the remainder of their life.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/01/2021 6:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Re:3 - dunno about Mandariin, but in Cantonese you might use fan gwai or bak gwai; both are kind of generic but applicable.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/01/2021 7:42 Comments || Top||

#6  People are getting sent to Twitter and FB jail in the U.S.--some for life.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/01/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||

#7  #3 Beria is widely believed to be the one who killed Stalin.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/01/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Gracias Mercutio
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/01/2021 9:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Nichevo, G.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/01/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||

#10  It's the only way to rule. We can grudge the li'l bastards all we want, but they how to get it done.

You can't let something like twitter enter the public/political sphere. It'll encroach into everything like the parasite it is and weaken the carefully cultivated staunchly nationalist fabric of Chinese polity. And gift what they've achieved to a glowing Uncle Soros.

Nope.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/01/2021 18:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Sh!tter & Fakebook delendae sunt
Posted by: Theter Glaiper9176 || 02/01/2021 21:52 Comments || Top||


Cyber
FACEBOOK INSIDER LEAKS: Hours of Video of Zuckerberg & Execs Admitting They Have ‘Too Much Power'
[ProjectVeritas]
  • Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO: “I know this is just a very difficult moment for a lot of us here [at Facebook], and especially our black colleagues. It was troubling to see how people in this [Capitol] mob were treated compared to the stark contrast we saw during [Black Lives Matter] protests earlier this [past] year.”

  • Zuckerberg: “The president [Trump] intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power.”

  • Zuckerberg: “President Biden already issued a number of Executive Orders on areas that we as a company care quite deeply about and have for some time. Areas like immigration, preserving DACA, ending restrictions on travel from Muslim-majority countries, as well as other Executive Orders on climate and advancing racial justice and equity. I think these were all important and positive steps.”

  • Zuckerberg: “We also have the first woman and the first person of color as our vice president in the history of our country…The swearing in of Vice President Harris really stands as a reminder that despite the challenges that we are facing as a country, we all have so much to be proud of.”

  • Nick Clegg, Facebook Head of Global Affairs: “There has been quite a lot of disquiet expressed by many leaders around the world…ideally we wouldn’t be making these [censorship] decisions on our own, we would be making these decisions in line with our own conformity, with democratically agreed rules and principles. At the moment, those democratically agreed rules don’t exist. We still have to make decisions in real-time.”

  • Facebook Insider still works within the organization and is willing to continue exposing its corruption.
Posted by: Wholulet Thigum4957 || 02/01/2021 03:02 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This should help President Trump’s case in the Senate next week.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/01/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#2  What an absurd situation this is. We have an overgrown adolescent in a T-shirt holding forth and disposing policy like a shadow High Lord Chamberlain. Who the f--- is this little asshole to be telling us what speech is allowed, or what the nation's immigration policies should be, or who should be president?

Who the f--- elected this twerp?

What happened to our constitutional republic?
Posted by: Hupeagum Thud6715 || 02/01/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||

#3  WTF? The Dem's virtue-signalling goes on steroids. Are they all gay or just appropriating another culture?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/01/2021 14:00 Comments || Top||

#4  "Humble bragging" how powerful he thinks he is... until the purges.
Posted by: magpie || 02/01/2021 16:06 Comments || Top||

#5  That's right. Robot Butler doesn't know his kind are on the short list.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/01/2021 18:36 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Myanmar state media unable to broadcast due to 'communication issues' - may be military coup
Looks like things are gettin' sketchy in Myanmar (Burma Shave)
[JPost] Myanmar state media MRTV is having technical issues and is unable to broadcast, the network said on Monday, just hours after the governing National League for Democracy party said leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures were detained.

"Due to current communication difficulties we'd like to respectfully inform you that the regular programs of MRTV and Myanmar Radio cannot be broadcast," Myanmar Radio and Television said on a post on its Facebook pageMobile internet data connections and some phone services were also disrupted in Yangon on Monday, residents said.

Myanmar's national internet connectivity had fallen to 75% of ordinary levels from 3 a.m. local time, internet monitoring service NetBlocks said.
The Times of Israel adds:
Myanmar’s military has detained the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an apparent coup, her ruling party’s front man said Monday.

The military, which ruled the country for nearly five decades, had this week refused to rule out seizing power over its claims of voter fraud in November’s elections, won by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

Myo Nyunt, the front man for the NLD, said Suu Kyi, along with President Win Myint, had been "detained" in the capital Naypyidaw
...generally translated as royal capital, seat of the king or abode of kings because the general in charge had a massive ego. It was founded in 2002 because Rangoon was worn out. Traditionally, Naypyidaw was used as a suffix to the names of royal capitals, such as Mandalay, which was called Yadanabon Naypyidaw in Burmese...
"We heard they were taken by the military," he told AFP, adding that he was extremely worried about the pair.

"With the situation we see happening now, we have to assume that the military is staging a coup."

He added that the circumstances of the country’s newly elected MPs — who were expected to sit Monday for the opening of parliament — were unclear.

Myanmar’s polls in November were only the second democratic elections the country has seen since it emerged from the 49-year grip of military rule in 2011. The NLD swept the polls and was expecting to renew the 75-year-old leader’s lease on power with a new five-year term.

But the military has for weeks alleged the polls were riddled with irregularities, and claimed to have uncovered over 10 million instances of voter fraud. It has demanded the government-run election commission release voter lists for cross-checking — which the commission has not done.

Last week, the military chief General Min Aung Hlaing — arguably the country’s most powerful individual — said the country’s 2008 constitution could be "revoked" under certain circumstances. Min Aung Hlaing’s statements — released amid already increasing tensions over rumors of an imminent coup — raised alarm within Myanmar, as well as from more than a dozen foreign missions and the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
The last time Myanmar saw its constitution repealed was in 1962 and 1988 — when the military seized power and reinstated a junta government.

Suu Kyi — a former democracy icon whose image internationally has been in tatters over her handling of the Moslem Rohingya crisis — remains a deeply popular figure. She spent 20 years off and on under house arrest for her role as an opposition leader, before she was released by the military in 2010.

Soldiers outside City Hall in Yangon, Myanmar - witness
Posted by: Frank G || 02/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is a military coup.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/01/2021 0:05 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Amazon still committed to hosting Twitter, even as service leaves up incendiary content
[Just the News] Company booted Twitter's upstart rival Parler due to violent posts, but won't say if it will demand stricter content moderation practices from dominant microblogging platform

Retail and tech giant Amazon is still planning to host Twitter on its web servers, even as the social media company continues to allow violent content to remain on its users' timelines.

Amazon was among the tech companies that took major action against Twitter competitor Parler earlier this month, claiming the microblogging site was not sufficiently policing violent content on its servers, particularly in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Following Apple's and Google's bans of Parler from their respective web stores, Amazon announced that it would be booting Parler from its Amazon Web Services infrastructure, citing the company's allegedly lax content moderation. Parler was briefly unavailable worldwide following that decision, though it has since partially rebooted, with the site's leadership vowing to reopen fully on new servers before long.

Twitter will move to AWS in spite of content celebrating, advocating violence

Amazon's decision to oust Parler due to its moderation policies indicated that the company was looking to take a strong stance against violent user-generated posts shared through its infrastructure, at a moment when the U.S. was keenly fixated on the potential effects of violent content on social media.

Yet the company is sending mixed signals as it moves to bring Twitter onto its web services platform, even as Twitter continues to allow both lesser-known and more prominent users to post violent content without apparent repercussions.

Amazon announced last month that Twitter had selected AWS "to provide global cloud infrastructure to deliver Twitter timelines."
Posted by: Wholulet Thigum4957 || 02/01/2021 01:25 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Disowning Uncle Bozo.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/01/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||


Government
Secretary of State Antony Blinken Orders LGBT Flags Flown at U.S. Embassies, Will Name Special Envoy for Gay Rights
[Breitbart] LGBT activists are cheering Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s announcement that he will reverse an order from President Donald Trump and put up "pride" flags at U.S. Embassies around the world.

Outfront magazine reported on the development:
The Biden administration is off to a hopeful start, as Secretary of State nominee, Antony Blinken, has confirmed a recommitment to LGBTQ rights.

In a memo from July 2020, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper released a list of flags permitted to be displayed at U.S. military bases. Missing from the list was the LGBTQ pride flag, which Esper compared to the confederate flag. Prior to the ban, embassies raised the flag during pride month on the official embassy flagpole.

During the hearing, Blinken also confirmed that he plans to appoint an envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQ persons, a position created by Barack Obama in 2015 that wasn’t filled during the Trump presidency.

Blinken claimed violence against that demographic increased while Trump was in office.

"We’ve seen violence directed against LGBTQI people around the world increase," Blinken said. "And so, I think the United States playing the role that it should be playing in standing up for and defending the rights of LGBTQI people is something that the department is going to take on and take on immediately. Raising the pride flag is one way to outright show LGBTQ solidarity."

"Biden is the first U.S. president to openly embrace a full range of queer rights, including transgender equality," Outfront magazine reported.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/01/2021 00:56 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can someone tell me how soon we'll be able to purchase human liver pâté ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/01/2021 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Truth in advertising. Dept of State is populated by a bunch of homos practiced in the art of the clusterfuck.
Posted by: Wholulet Thigum4957 || 02/01/2021 1:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Can someone tell me how soon we'll be able to purchase human liver pâté ?

Yum! Just as soon as I'm done finalizing my supplier contracts. Pâté, ribeye, flank & hanger: comin' right up.
Posted by: Armie Hammered || 02/01/2021 2:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Raising the pride flag is one way to outright show LGBTQ solidarity

Typical
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/01/2021 3:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Please do not forget February is Black History Month and Democrats Ruled the CSA (Confederate States of America)

The featured in this article is the LGBTQI (or as I see it with my dyslexia GLIB-QT) Banner.




GLIB = adjective, glib·ber, glib·best. readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers. easy or unconstrained, as actions or manners.
Posted by: Spanky Turkeyneck2611 || 02/01/2021 3:39 Comments || Top||

#6  An oligarchy of special interests.

Are you prepared to die to defend the oligarchy?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/01/2021 6:13 Comments || Top||

#7  That's not going to go over well in some countries.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/01/2021 9:01 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Beat me to it. I'm sure it will be a hit in Africa and muzz lands...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/01/2021 10:21 Comments || Top||

#9  That flag should be a big hit in conservative Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/01/2021 10:26 Comments || Top||

#10  When does "Godless and Sodomites Welcome" replace "In God We Trust" on our money?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/01/2021 10:48 Comments || Top||

#11  While they deserve their rights like anyone else, promoting them to Sainthood doesn't help.
Posted by: Jiggs Javirong2320 || 02/01/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||

#12  Thank you mr obama.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 02/01/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#13  That flag should be a big hit in conservative Muslim countries

India won’t be excited as well. Israel won’t particularly care — Tel Aviv has a big gay pride march every year without too much fuss. But it will confirm that they were right to hope for Donald Trump’s re-election, and underline that they’ll get from Joe Biden what they got from Barack Obama, though possibly not so openly insulting as being sent to a working dinner with underlings while Barry went off to dinner with his family.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/01/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#14  The Trump Admin initiated an effort back in 2019 to end the criminalization of homosexuality. The LGBT movement in the USA basically said F...Y.. anyway.

Notwithstanding the LGBTs it was more substantive than flying a flag.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/01/2021 12:56 Comments || Top||

#15  Moar, moar, of what we don't need!
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 02/01/2021 16:40 Comments || Top||

#16  I wouldn't be surprised if they replaced the red and white stripes with those colours in some years.



Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/01/2021 18:08 Comments || Top||

#17  Notwithstanding the LGBTs it was more substantive than flying a flag.

Who wants Substance when you have Virtual Signalling?
The LGBT [bowel] movement nowdays cares about as much about gay and other letters as BLM cares about Blacks... It's not much about equality anymore as it is about hatred of Heterosexuals and making you bend over to their will.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/01/2021 19:05 Comments || Top||


Biden Vaccine Rollout - ‘It’s a mess’
Of course, it's all Trump fault. But I left that part out.
[Politico] Joe Biden promised he’d bring in a competent, tested team to run the pandemic response, set ambitious vaccination targets and impose strict public health guidelines.
Easier said than done, Joe? Whoda thunk it?
His team arrived at the White House with a 200-page response plan ready to roll out. But instead, they have spent much of the last week trying to wrap their hands around the mushrooming crisis — a process officials acknowledge has been humbling, and triggered a concerted effort to temper expectations about how quickly they might get the nation back to normal.
Unexpectedly, Trump didn't do what we expected! Now we have to fix his mess! Which - come to think of it - we did expect.
After a week on the job, Biden’s team is still trying to locate upwards of 20 million vaccine doses that have been sent to states — a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort. They're searching for new ways to boost production of a vaccine stockpile that they've discovered is mostly empty.
Because 23 million doses of the vaccine have already been injected into arms as fast as they arrived, instead of hoarded for dramatic vaccination footage featuring grateful peasants singing hymns to the wonder that is Democratic President Joe Biden? How deplorable.
And they're nervously eyeing a series of new Covid-19 strains that threaten to derail the response.
Derail the speeding express train? Because the media is terrified?
"It’s the Mike Tyson quote: ’Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth,’" said one person with knowledge of the vaccine effort who’s not authorized to discuss the work.
So Joe has leakers, too? Interesting!
It was not until after Biden was sworn in that the Covid response team discovered the system was blinded to much of the route that vaccines traveled from the government's distribution hubs to people's arms.
The speeding express train must run on Joe's tracks! On Joe's schedule!
Instead, once the vaccine shipments are delivered to the states, responsibility for tracking them has been left up to states’ individual public health systems.
How un-central-command-control! But consistent with Trump's overall virus plan.
The administration then only gets an update once the doses are actually administered and an official record is submitted.
That's why CDC records lag behind contemporaneous web sites. Joe's team really didn't see that one coming?
"I think they were really caught off guard by that," said one adviser. "It’s a mess."
Joe’s Big Government Good crowd really did not see that coming.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden’s team should have met with Trumps Covid team.
Posted by: Gromolet Protector of the Leprechauns6456 || 02/01/2021 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Biden’s team only had about 300 meetings and briefings with Trumps team. I guess that wasn’t enough
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 02/01/2021 0:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Poor, stupid red states have distributed close to 100% of the vaccine doses delivered to them. Rich, smart blue states have overplanned, let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and had to dispose of a lot more doses.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/01/2021 1:33 Comments || Top||

#4  What was it that Rantburger used to say?

We are ruled by morons
Posted by: Grath Jaique8622 || 02/01/2021 2:09 Comments || Top||

#5 
Remember Joe asked for Unity ?


Posted by: Spanky Turkeyneck2611 || 02/01/2021 3:18 Comments || Top||



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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