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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Pres. Trump says DOJ and FBI are 'missing in action' amid voter fraud allegations during first interview since election
[Washington Examiner] President Trump said the Department of Justice and the FBI are "missing in action" in investigating potential voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

"Where is the DOJ and the FBI in all of this, Mr. President? You have laid out some serious charges here. Shouldn't this be something that the FBI is investigating? Are they?" Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo asked Trump on Sunday during his first interview since Election Day.

"Missing in action. Can't tell you where they are. I ask, 'Are they looking at it?' Everyone says, ’Yes, they're looking at it,’" Trump responded.

"Where are they with all of this stuff, and what happened to Durham? Where's Durham? So, you're asking me a question. These people have been there a long time, and I know FBI, and FBI is great at the levels that we talked about, but it's inconceivable. You would think if you're in the FBI or Department of Justice, this is the biggest thing you could be looking at. Where are they? I've not seen anything. I mean, they just keep moving along, and they go on to the next president. They've been there for a long time. People don't understand this, they've been there for a long time. Some of them have served a lot of different presidents, and they have their own views. All I can say is I haven't heard, with all of the fraud that's taken place, nobody has come to me and said, ’Oh, the FBI's nabbed, you know, the people that are doing this thing,’" the president elaborated.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 02:48 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why hasn't he fired Wray and Barr?

Ask Epstein.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/30/2020 7:20 Comments || Top||

#2  good question.
Posted by: Chris || 11/30/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#3  MIA? Yeah no, they've been intimately involved from the start.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/30/2020 17:09 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Chinese Government Stepping Up Propaganda to Change COVID Origin Story
[PJ] The Chinese Communist government is stepping up its PR campaign to try and convince the world that the coronavirus did not originate in the Chinese city of Wuhan a year ago, but was brought to China from elsewhere.

Their efforts have been, at the very least, creative.

Their latest gambit is to promote the story that the coronavirus traveled to China via frozen food imports — a nearly impossible feat, say epidemiologists. The communist propagandists have pointed the finger at Italy, India, and on "many continents" before the poor Chinese became victims of the coronavirus. They see China as a double victim: unwitting patients got sick from a virus that arrived from elsewhere and then were unfairly blamed for starting it.

It probably works with the Chinese masses, but with few others.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 02:54 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Prepping the way for beta version?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 11/30/2020 5:00 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
History Doesn't Repeat Itself But It Often Rhymes
[via CFP] See image at link
Communist coercion methods vs Covid-19.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/30/2020 09:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


President Donald J Trump ultimate inspirational tribute (video)
[MateyProductions] This man endures the most vile abuse from the left and the media, He fights for America and the American people. This is the greatest President America has ever seen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 06:26 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Washington? Lincoln? But after them he has a chance
Posted by: JFM || 11/30/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||


Condition Red: Your Visual Displacement Is Now Complete - 'White Man Bad'
[UNZ] Understandably, at this point in time after the 2020 elections, many observers are laser focused on the struggle for the Presidency between the incumbent and the cadaver. Accounts of voter fraud are mildly interesting, but observers are, in my view, missing the larger and far more important story: The race war against Whites has reached a new level, yet many people who shouldn’t be are distracted by the details of day-to-day politics, much to our collective peril. Today I will try to remedy this by using a method falling between essay writing and a video: I will use a photo essay to represent what is being done to the White race in real time. This will be ugly.

In essence, I will use my academic background to show why images are important in a struggle for existence and power, and how those images are used by a certain group to weaken the White race.

Over a decade ago, I began on this site an examination of the changing representations of who we Americans are. As part of that, I introduced academic texts that — to be honest — accurately showed "the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice" and buttressed White dominance, which is not really surprising given that Whites comprised roughly 90% of America’s population (and all of the elite) for the entirety of European settlement in the lands that were to become The United States. Breathlessly, we read in grad school books such as Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture and White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture that dutifully convicted the American majority of racism. In short, all such accounts concluded: "White Man Bad."

Not surprisingly, during this period of shift from written to visual culture, professors poured out non-written texts such as oral histories and film, giving us budding academics more ways to cement that overweening verdict: "White Man Bad." Thus, in more than one graduate class, we were treated to multiple showings of documentaries such as Ethnic Notions, which promised:
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My attitude is: You can hate me. You can hate yourself. You can't make me hate myself.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/30/2020 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Any person using the generality,

"(insert color or person) is Bad."

Is a RACIST.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/30/2020 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Is it racist if there is only a single person of that color? For example orange?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/30/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Infographic: The 4-Year-Long Campaign Against Trump
[Epoch Times via ZERO] The post-election push to pressure President Donald Trump to concede, despite numerous credible allegations of voter fraud and ongoing legal challenges, is not an isolated incident.

It is the culmination of a four-year-long campaign against him, which started during his first run for president in 2016 when the FBI launched a politically motivated investigation of his campaign. During his subsequent four years in office, there have been consistent efforts to remove him from office, first through the Russia-collusion narrative and then through impeachment.

The Epoch Times here provides an overview of some of the main efforts made against the sitting president of the United States.

This is an issue that transcends party lines, as it is not only an assault on Trump, but an assault on the office of the presidency, and with it, an assault on the foundation of America.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 06:32 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Useful timeline narrative B.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/30/2020 7:18 Comments || Top||


Biden's Cabinet: What a Hillary Clinton Administration Would Have Looked Like
[National Review] President-elect Joe Biden, with his first round of cabinet nominees and White House staff picks, has reassured his party’s moderate wing by drawing from the deep reservoir of Washington establishment types that he’s been surrounded by during his nearly five decades in government, rather than elevating more ideological upstarts.

Biden appears to be prioritizing time spent in government service in his choices for the executive branch’s most powerful positions, prompting critics on the Right and, to a lesser extent, the far-left to suggest they will be liable to repeat the mistakes of past Democratic administrations. The nominees so far include familiar names from the Obama administration, including a number of prominent figures close to Hillary Clinton, who likely would have been appointed to senior positions had she won in 2016.

John Kerry, former secretary of state and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, will serve as special presidential envoy for climate, Biden announced on Monday. Kerry’s post, the first of its kind, will be housed within the National Security Council and will primarily involve conducting environmental diplomacy of the sort that President Trump decisively abandoned by withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords.

Biden nominated Jake Sullivan, previously a close aide to Hillary Clinton, as national-security adviser. Sullivan was implicated in the Clinton private email-server scandal and endorsed the contents of the infamous Steele dossier, which served as the basis for the FISA warrant to surveil Trump campaign advisers and has since been largely debunked.

The former vice president has also named Obama administration and Biden campaign alumna Dana Remus as White House counsel, Jen O’Malley Dillon as White House deputy chief of staff, Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti as senior advisors to the president, Ron Klain as White House chief of staff, Avril Haines as director of national intelligence, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 04:20 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Excuse me if I'm not willing to unite behind Biden
[Daily Torch] Nothing feels right about what is happening in America. Not the fraudulent election results, not the politicized court rulings, and not the biased media coverage. All have converged in a perfect storm to steal this election from Donald Trump. I don’t believe for one second that Creepy, Sleepy, Hidin’ Joe Biden won this election. If he is sworn into office, it will be the result of a well-orchestrated voter fraud scheme, biased judges, and a mainstream media-Big Tech alliance to censor the news.

From the moment he came down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy for office, Establishment forces have tried to take Trump down.

Excuse me if I’m not willing to "unite" under a Biden-Harris administration. For the past four years I’ve endured the fake news stories of Russian collusion, impeachment (I can’t remember on what grounds), children in cages, Melania’s wardrobe, Ivanka’s wardrobe, Trump’s diet, and on and on. I’m experiencing PTSD just writing about the trauma the media and establishment forces have inflicted on conservatives for the past five years.

The dishonest and distorted reporting from the media never ends. This week, President Trump directed the head of the federal agency responsible for presidential transitions to begin releasing funds for a potential Biden presidential transition. At the same time, the president clearly stated he is conceding nothing and will continue his legal challenges against widespread voter fraud.

Here is the Yahoo News headline: "In latest blow to Trump, GSA administrator releases transition funds to Biden." Yahoo goes on to explain, "Trump has pursued a legal strategy to try to overturn the will of the voters in key battleground states where Biden was declared the winner."

Declared the winner? By whom? By the media?

Trump is simply doing right by the American people, doing his job in preparing for a possible transition of power.

Instead of getting praise, he gets this headline from CNN. "Trump’s effort to steal the election is done," with this follow up sub-headline "President Donald Trump’s not-secret attempt to steal the presidential election likely met its end Monday."

Not even a mention of Trump’s continued fight to ensure fair and honest elections.

"What does GSA being allowed to preliminarily work with the Dems have to do with continuing to pursue our various cases on what will go down as the most corrupt election in American political history? We are moving full speed ahead. Will never concede to fake ballots & ’Dominion.'"
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 03:29 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  STOLEN
NOT
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Posted by: Cesare || 11/30/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#2  It'll be interesting to watch the left if the right pulls the 'not my President' game for 4 years.

I bet a lot end up with serious mental health issues as more and more and more and more evidence piles up that the thing was stolen to the point they can't pretend any longer and they start to face the fact that they are the baddies after all.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/30/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't think they'll be bothered at all.
1) They have no conscience.
2) This election stealing technique can be repeated in all future elections. This time they did it only to Trump. Next time they will do it all across the board.

Say goodbye to the Republican wave in 2022 and 2024. It will be undone by computer. Our elections are now as fake as Venezuela or Iran!
Posted by: Black Bart Oppressor of the Poles8404 || 11/30/2020 11:08 Comments || Top||

#4  I bought a mourning streamer, a thin black black ribbon,for all my US flags. it symbolises mourning the end of America and freedom as I know it. I too doubt we will ever see honest elections or the truth in now what is propaganda to be found across the media spectrum. The worst part is watching it happen and seeing ignorant people tolerate the end of the era of plenty and peace in our land.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/30/2020 12:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember when the Left complained about the nefarious hand of Big Money in our elections? Remember McCain-Feingold, anyone?

That indignation lasted for about 5 minutes. Then the Democrats stopped getting mad and started getting even -- and they have now pulled miles ahead, raising billions in untraceable dark money in 2020.

That's escalation for you. Losers whine about integrity for a while, and then the serious political pros take over and match the other side's fire with their own fire. So now we can expect the Republicans will see the Democrats' dirty balloting bullshit, and raise it.

Which means that this is the end of honest free and fair national elections in this country.
Posted by: Kofi Hupaimble6379 || 11/30/2020 12:09 Comments || Top||

#6  "Excuse me" is an apology.... Don't!
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/30/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#7  At some point, the people on the right are going to decide enough is enough. They aren't going to protest, riot or loot. They'll just start assassinating Democrat officials and judges.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/30/2020 15:09 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Sooner than we think, but not soon enough.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/30/2020 17:12 Comments || Top||

#9  all talk, the "right" is nowhere near as organized as the cleptocrats(donks), plus the "right" are "decent" people who posses a conscience
Posted by: 746 || 11/30/2020 17:35 Comments || Top||

#10  Go read "What I saw at the coup" for an idea of what I mean. There won't need to be, just enough to get the ball rolling. How many dead democrats in leadership can they lose before they all try to jump ship and run?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/30/2020 18:03 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
UN Announces BIOMETRIC Digital ID Wallet
[Waking Times] Recently, the United Nations had some big announcements that went largely unnoticed, including the rollout of a biometric digital wallet and an announcement that one of its specialized agencies The International Civil Aviation Organization is one step closer to a internationally recognized digital travel credential.

As reported by Biometric Update, this particular UN biometric digital wallet is intended for UN employees and it can be used for data related to human resources, medical status, travel, payroll and pensions.

I hope you see where this is going, every aspect of our lives will be centralized digitally using biometrics and in many cases the blockchain, AI and 5G.

I can’t help but to raise the question, what kind of social controls could this possibly provide the technocrats if people decide not to obey certain restrictions or requirements?

Example: If you didn’t get your latest shot, individuals may face travel restrictions. Or, you may not be able go to work, or your payments may be frozen until you comply.

They may not have to mandate anything if they can ’encourage’ you to obey.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 06:51 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will Dominion get the US Gov't contract? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  They may not have to mandate anything if they can ’encourage’ you to obey.

That is how the mark of the beast works. You can't buy or work without it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/30/2020 8:23 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Nike uses Kaepernick and BLM to distract you from their support of Islamophobic genocide
[Washington Examiner] For all the conservative frustration over woke corporatism's embrace of virtue signaling, it's worth remembering that the real cost of companies posing black squares in honor of George Floyd and signs reading, "HATE HAS NO HOME HERE," isn't mere political correctness. Instead, we pay in literal bloodshed, as expertly evidenced in the microcosm of Nike's prime puppet, Colin Kaepernick.

After decades of criticism for the use of sweatshops and occasionally child labor, Nike leveraged neoliberalism's greatest weapon against change, the supposed moral facade known as virtue signaling. The sports brand, now the highest valued on the planet, signed Kaepernick, the ex-NFL player famous for kneeling for the national anthem and celebrating dictators like Che Guevera and convicted cop killers like Mumia Abu-Jamal, as their latest face with the slogan, "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."

It's a pithy tagline, and one that perfectly highlights why Nike's gambit is both so brilliant and evil. By signing Kaepernick and earning the favor of liberal elites, Nike had to sacrifice nothing, and the only thing that's changed about its insistence in using sweatshops is that in Xinjiang, they're graduated to slave labor, and that from Nike's former woke critics, there's suddenly silence.

And now, Nike, which is disproportionately favored by liberals over conservatives, according to consumer research, has joined a number of other nominally woke companies to lobby Congress to roll back crucial aspects of the proposed Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

"In the first three quarters of 2020, Nike spent $920,000 on in-house lobbying of Congress and other federal agencies," the New York Times reports. "Disclosures do not break down expenditures by topic, but show Nike lobbied on matters including physical education grants, taxes and climate change, as well as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Nike also paid outside firms like Cornerstone Government Affairs, Ogilvy, Capitol Counsel, GrayRobinson, American Continental Group, DiNino Associates and Empire Consulting Group more than $400,000 this year to lobby on issues including the act."

The few conservatives who did choose to boycott Nike over their Kaepernick deal were wrong for the same reason liberals boycotting Chick-fil-A over the founder's personal religious views were. But consumers boycotting Nike and Congress legislating away their literal contribution to the Chinese Communist Party's ethnic cleansing of the Uighurs are obviously corrUighurect, and the Kaepernick deal has provided Nike with enough of a woke facade that it actively makes both the effect of boycotts and passing meaningful legislation all the harder.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2020 11:07 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies



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