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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The leader of the 5-year coup attempt: Puppeteer Barack Obama
[WND] During a 2003 panel discussion on terrorism, the observation was made that, prior to 9/11, America failed to connect the dots leading up to that fateful day. In today's chaotic world, it is easy to miss isolated dots concerning issues we should be connecting. A story revealed just last week — a firsthand account by a most reliable source, Patrick Byrne, billionaire founder of the Internet furniture retailer Overstock.com — suggests we again have failed to do so.

Byrne's story is most disturbing. It details how Hillary Clinton received yet another "get out of jail card" for previously unknown criminal conduct swept under the rug — and the ominous reason why. His claim, when connected to other dots, lends credibility to his story.

Among the dots are the following:
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 01:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is simply bizarre:

In a recent video interview, Obama made a strange revelation. He said he would be fine running a presidency from the basement of his home, with a way to communicate with a "front" person. He said, "I used to say, if, if, I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man, a front woman and they had an earpiece in and I was in the basement in my sweats … I'd be fine with that."

Bizarre, unless you consider that Zero himself has always been an empty suit.

He never stood for anything coherent -- except for 1) his love of Iran and hatred of Israel, and 2) love of identity politics causes and hatred of "bitter" white "clingers" -- like the White grandmother who raised him after his shitty Kenyan dad skipped out and his stupid hippie mom passed.

The only people in our society who could possibly have shared these odd obsessions -- hatred of whites and Israelis coupled with love of 1990s-era identity politics, and with relative indifference to the leftist economic agenda -- are limousine liberal types like George Soros, the Iranian sympathizer and white-hating Valerie Jarrett, and domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife.

Ayers' and Dohrn's shaping influence on this nogoodnik bum is well known. ValJar's hold on her protege too; Soros would not be a surprise. But who were Obama's overseas puppeteers?
Posted by: Pearl Glick4911 || 12/22/2020 3:31 Comments || Top||

#2  He does stands for something - he stands for making USA elective offices a vehicle of "repatriations" instead of the ability to do the job. Well, soon we (cause it affects the whole world) will have a female Afro-American POTUS. Hurra!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/22/2020 3:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Harris is simply a whore in the literal sense of the word. She fucked her way into San Francisco Democrat politics and then played the Pacific Heights billionaire crowd like a violin. She's a puppet of that monied SF elite that props up wind bags and grifters like Newsom, Pelosi, and Feinstein
Posted by: Flealet Johnson9386 || 12/22/2020 4:07 Comments || Top||

#4  ^None of which matters in this new brave world. Only the fact that she's an African-American womyn metters
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/22/2020 4:20 Comments || Top||

#5  He is not smart enough to do anything but raise hate relations to an uproar. He was a "Community Organizer" In plain English he was a race baiting self serving hater. While the media loved and embraced him, the hate he spewed spread like VD in the villages. He was awarded a Nobel prize for nothing, really, for nothing. While they swooned over this guy, the people that got him elected were working hard behind the curtain. Corrupting judges, politicians, and servicing their global goals. Big business got in bed with China and their love child was Obama. China and Big business made one fatal mistake, they expected the American people to just follow. They underestimated this guy named Trump and they had to figure out how to not let that happen again. The election fraud was blatant, it was bold, it was out in the open and they just laughed. The person they ran never even went out of his basement! The numbers are staggering, 1.4 million ballots go out and 2.5 million return, bore ballots than legal residents, and in AZ-my home- every new person moving to AZ since 1998 would have had to vote for Biden for him to win, yet win he did. Obama is a moron, not very bright at all, runs his mouth and then has to backtrack, much like AOC. But he provided good cover for businesses looking for cheap labor from a country hell bent on destroying the world greatest nation. Its all but over, what's next? Does America have the fortitude to stop this before its too late?
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/22/2020 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6  But who were Obama's overseas puppeteers?

Exactly. Baraq might want you to think he's in control but he lacks the intellect, discipline and energy. He himself is a front man. The master puppeteer must be someone who could make even Soros wet his pants. Xi Jinping is my bet.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/22/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Another vote for Xi.

We have not even scratched the surface of Chinese subversion efforts in this country.
Posted by: Beldar Thease4031 || 12/22/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||

#8  he ChiComs are all-in now, and every element of their subversive infrastructure is working in concert to escalate their timetable for the destruction of the "main adversary". They see this as the inflection point, the center of gravity moment for a bloodless coup to end the American era.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/22/2020 13:57 Comments || Top||

#9  We should not underestimate the ability of hostile foreign nations -- especially those from proud traditional civilizations like Han China or Russia -- to spot how vulnerable this nation's obsession with race-guilt has made us.

The Soviets tried to exploit it but failed because they were too clueless and clumsy when it came to speaking the language of American liberalism -- but this was before PC swept the land. Also, the Russian diaspora was never large enough to infiltrate American institutions, although thousands of left-wing Russian Jewish emigres working in New York and Hollywood offered fertile recruiting through the 1950s.

For the CCP today it's a different story. Thanks to our H1B and student and scholar visa laxity, we've offered a gateway to over 600,000 Chinese into our universities and high-tech companies.

America throws money at them, and they and their children in turn line the pockets of our universities, which reserve over 5% of their undergraduate spots for children of CCP millionaires and billionaires. Silicon Valley alone has over 100,000 Mainland Chinese for the Minustry of State Security (MSS) to recruit from.

The Chinese today are vastly more dangerous to our institutions and our freedoms than the USSR was.

The key question is, Which of our idiot-elites are they manipulating?
Posted by: Angoting Guelph2342 || 12/22/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Van Morrison Slams Coronavirus Hypocrisy: Politicians ‘Haven't Missed a Paycheck Since Lockdown Began'
[Breibart] Music icon Van Morrison is once again blasting mandatory coronavirus closures, noting that politicians "haven’t missed a paycheck" since the forced shutdowns began.

Van Morrison fired off a tweet on Monday criticizing political elites for their hypocrisy. "Remember, those who are shutting down our economy haven’t missed a paycheck since lockdown began. We are not in this together," the Northern Ireland singer-songwriter wrote.

In a separate tweet, he also blasted the Northern Ireland Executive for failing the justify the lockdowns. "10 months on and the @niexecutive still hasn’t presented the science for the Northern Ireland lockdown," he said.

His tweets come as much of the U.K. prepares for the likelihood of Tier 4 lockdowns, which would force the closure of even more businesses and throw millions of people out of work.

Earlier this year, Van Morrison released three new singles in which he accused governments of "taking our freedom," adding that "the new normal, is not normal."

"No More Lockdown" features lyrics that slam government overreach. "No more lockdown / No more government overreach," he sings in the chorus. "No more fascist bullies / Disturbing our peace."

Van Morrison recently teamed up with Eric Clapton for "Stand and Deliver," another song that criticizes coronavirus lockdowns. Proceeds from sales of the song are going to Morrison’s Lockdown Financial Hardship Fund, which provides financial help to musicians impacted by the Chinese virus and the subsequent forced closures.

Morrison website found at this link.

Have I told you lately that I love you.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 06:26 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Larry Arnn President of Hillsdale College speaks (video)
Patrick Bet-David has a virtual sit down with Larry Arnn, American Educator, writer and President of Hillsdale College, Professor of History and Politics.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 06:55 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "People have never owned a slave must pay reparations to people who have never been a slave."

People who have never discriminated against anyone, must shoulder the costs of tuition for people who have never suffered discrimination.

Government and corporate imposed quota systems restrict the hiring of those who have never discriminated, in favor of the hiring and promotion of those who have never suffered discrimination.

How do these phenomenon differ ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 7:12 Comments || Top||


Paladin's American Gomorrah ™ ‘I Am Sarah’ Edition
[Victory Girls] I AM SARAH. Say it. Mean it. Repeat it. Repeat it to everyone you know. Whether they understand or not, whether they’ve read Sarah Chamberlain’s piece or not. When some Karen tells you to mask up, whisper, "I am Sarah."


Every time you see a Wormtongue blatting on about "disgrace" and "accept results" and "let’s move on", think "I am Sarah." Paladin has sent this brave woman’s piece to two columnists he knows may sympathize. Hopefully, they will be Sarah too. But you can be Sarah every waking moment of every day. All you have to do is say to yourself, I AM SARAH.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: 746 || 12/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course they don't call themselves communists. Nobody would ever vote for them if they did. Do not listen to what they say. Watch what they do and you will see for yourself. Their policies are designed to destroy America as we know it so they can build their socialist paradise in its place. Only problem is, it'll be hell for the rest of us. I've said it before: Joe Stalin gave communists a bad name so now they call themselves Democrats.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/22/2020 11:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Biggest Political Blunder in American History
[American Thinker] If courts and state legislatures award Joe Biden the presidency, the anti-Trump cabal, driven by a four-year single-minded obsession to defeat President Trump, will have committed the greatest political blunder in American history -- the unabashed and overt theft of the 2020 presidential election.

This myopic and oblivious group so misunderstood the depth and breadth of support for Donald Trump that their blatant manipulation of the election would fall monumentally short of the planned for and anticipated landslide defeat of the incumbent. A landslide they needed in order to dominate the political arena for the foreseeable future and avoid any backlash from the electorate for their duplicity.

Thus, this cabal, which consists of the Democrat party establishment, Tech and Wall Street billionaires, the mainstream media and left-wing elitists, will find itself in a quagmire of being unable to govern. The Democrat party’s dominant and radicalized left-wing base will revolt over failed promises and expectations while the extent of the fraud will inevitably be fully exposed, resulting in nearly half of the citizenry viewing the government as illegitimate.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/22/2020 09:35 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Merci beaucoup!
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/22/2020 9:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Expecting things to be run on the up and up seems a bit stupid at this point...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#3  YADA yada yada. So what. We saw it coming, we saw it happen. We are acting like spectators at a football game. The time to fret and hand wring is over.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/22/2020 10:56 Comments || Top||

#4  We need to start creating alternate cultural institutions. Alternate media. Alternate schools. An alternate culture overall, one that is totally independent of Twitter YouTuve Facebook Google Netflix Disney CNN-NYT-ABC-WAPO-NBC-ESPN etc.

Most importantly the secession movement needs to focus on carving out rural red regions from deep blue states. These should leave and join neighboring purple states so as to tip the Electoral College balance.

We should aim to achieve the following realignments as fast a possible - hopefully by 2024 but by 2030 at the very latest.

These shifts would ensure that all of the biggest and deepest blue states lose at least 3-4 Electiral College votes each and would ensure that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Florida go red -- and return North Carolina and Georgia to red status again:

Michigan: separate Detroit, Ann Arbor, Oakland County from the rest. Non-SE Lower Peninsula should be joined to Ohio or Indiana. Upper Peninsula should be joined to Wisconsin or Minnesota.

Illinois: separate downstate and join it to Iowa

New York: upstate west of Ithaca should be joined to Pennsylvania

Virginia: separate Northern Virginia and join all counties south of Henrico County/Richmond to North Carolina

Georgia: separate from Atlanta metro and join neighboring states, principally Florida

Arizona: separate Phoenix and Tucson from the rest and join northern part to New Mexico.

California: separate Shasta / Chico areas and join to Nevada
Oregon: separate eastern regions and join to Nevada
Washington: separate eastern regions and join to Nevada


Posted by: Clusotch Unalet6320 || 12/22/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Wouldn't it be easier to create new states?
Wasn't there a movement to create a state in the Northwest out of eastern Oregon, Northern CA and eastern WA?

You could the same in maybe four other regions... that would yield 55 states. The flag would then have 3 rows of 9 stars = 27 + 4 rows of 7 stars = 28.

If necessary the stripes could alternate red, white, blue, black to reiresent the union of Patriotic and Woke, each living happily in its own geographic space.
Posted by: Bugs Tingle7070 || 12/22/2020 12:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Biggest mistake was Barr and Wray. Just ask Epstein.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/22/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#7  This fraud is pure evil
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/22/2020 18:51 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm starting to think the pro-China faction in all this thinks that without Chinese money western suicide by deficit spending.

While the Trump faction is saying continuing as before is suicide combined with slavery to another nation which is worse. Trump had done a wonderful job of decoupling and getting our economy humming.

The advantage of the Pro-China way of thinking is politicians get super wealthy and can justify their treason.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/22/2020 20:05 Comments || Top||


Barr says no need for special counsels to investigate election or Hunter Biden
Washington (CNN) Attorney General William Barr on Monday rejected several of President Donald Trump's inflammatory and unfounded statements regarding the presidential election, saying at a news conference that he doesn't plan to appoint a special counsel to investigate President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter or the election.

"If I thought a special counsel at this stage was a right tool and was appropriate, I would name one, but I haven't and I'm not going to," Barr said in response to a question on the presidential election. He said that widespread fraud wasn't found in this election.

Barr also roundly rejected suggestions from the President's supporters in recent days who've called for the US government to seize voting machines.

Barr disputes Trump in citing Russia behind cyberattack
"I see no basis for seizure of machines by the federal government," Barr said Monday.

It was Barr's last major news conference leading the Justice Department under Trump, and highlighted how much the attorney general has split from a President to whom he remained close until recent weeks.

Trump has inquired about the need for special investigations of Hunter Biden and on so-called voting fraud, and he continues to entertain and distribute unfounded theories that the presidential election was stolen from him.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 09:16 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Plugs' response to Hunter's problems:

"I love my son. He did nothing wrong and promises to never do it again."
~ Bill McGurn
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 9:22 Comments || Top||

#2  The Big Guy, talking about his Little Monster being investigated for felony crimes:

"I think it's kind of foul play, but look, it is what it is and he's a grown man, he is the smartest man I know - I mean from a pure intellectual capacity - and as long as he's good, we're good,"...
Posted by: Zorba Oppressor of the Geats2401 || 12/22/2020 9:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Actually Hunter probably IS the smartest guy in Joe Biden's circle
Posted by: Squinty Ulomoling7646 || 12/22/2020 9:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Barr is ensuring he survives the post Trump backlash. Sacrificing our nation for his own gain.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/22/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Flat out treason. And it's Trump's fault for not shit canning him long ago.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/22/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||


Georgia Votes for America
[Rumble] The Progressive Political Machine is marching on Georgia. Georgia may decide the fate of America's future. Will Progressives take power? Will Progressive blight spread? This election is NOT about David Perdue or Kelly Loeffler. This election is about the fate of America. This is about Progressivism. This is what Progressive America looks like. Georgia decides, but Georgia deserves to see what Progressive America looks like. This is the Republican view from Progressive America. This is your choice.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 08:08 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Lin Wood interview on 2020 elections
[Crossroads] Attorney L. Lin Wood sits down for an exclusive interview with Joshua Philipp on the 2020 US presidential elections, the possibility of martial law, the Georgia Senate runoff, China's infiltration of America, and why he fights for the truth.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 06:44 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Pat Robertson turns on Trump, urges concession: 'The president ... lives in an alternate reality'
[Washington Times] Pat Robertson became the latest conservative leader to call on President Trump to acknowledge his electoral defeat.

The venerable evangelical preacher and TV host said on Monday’s episode of his program that Mr. Trump had become "very erratic" and should move on.

Mr. Robertson, according to an account of Monday night’s show in the Washington Post, said that Mr. Trump has "done a marvelous job for the economy, but at the same time he is very erratic, and he’s fired people and he’s fought people and he’s insulted people and he keeps going down the line."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 02:21 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another Epstein client?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/22/2020 3:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Who is this asshole?
Posted by: Chemp Fillmore9023 || 12/22/2020 3:39 Comments || Top||

#3  An ability to produce loyalty in immediate subordinates is an important quality in a leader (unless you're omnipotent) - Trump offended & drove away most of his immediate subordinates.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/22/2020 3:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Or, perhaps Trump would not be subordinate to the Deep State (Barr and Bolton appointments aside).
Posted by: Clem || 12/22/2020 5:42 Comments || Top||

#5 
Mr. Robertson.
Please stick to Religion and leave Political and Legal matters to others.

As your comment now has many wondering if the Deep State and/or The Socialist-Democrats may have some dirt on you as as leverage?

Or have you forgotten under this proposed Socialist-Democrat regime, we have already heard their leaders tell us that the Judaeo-Christian Religion and moral values will not be tolerated.

In fact, we already have seen Focused ATTACKS on Jewish people in the USA. Plus LOOTING and DESTRUCTION by ANTI-FArt/BLOM and a number of their synagogues.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/22/2020 6:21 Comments || Top||

#6  He is a teevee holy roller=$$$.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/22/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Jealous of Franklin Graham, who actually does things for people
Posted by: Frank G || 12/22/2020 10:00 Comments || Top||

#8  This needs to play out. It is bigger than any one President. It is about the soul of America. Some of the founding fathers were pastors as well as soldiers and politicians, e.g. Courageous Pastors.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/22/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Race to the bottom is inevitably ugly and nasty to watch...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#10  If your only news source is CNN and NPR drive-time, I can see how you might think the election is a done deal.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/22/2020 10:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Really?!
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/22/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#12  I blame Pat Robertson for this mess. He did not pray hard enough.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/22/2020 13:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Speaking of alternate realities . . . .
Posted by: gorb || 12/22/2020 20:30 Comments || Top||


GEN Mike Flynn: 'The Trump Cavalry Is Coming (video)
[US Courier] Former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn said foreign partners can provide evidence that will show there was foreign influence at work in the Nov. 3 election.

Flynn, speaking to Lou Dobbs Friday on Fox Business, said that interference with elections was linked to the recent extensive infiltration of federal government systems through software made by a company called Solar Winds that was hacked.

"When we talk about our election security, Lou, I think this is all part of it because there’s a relationship between this Solar Winds attack which has basically penetrated our entire critical infrastructure, as well as our election security," Flynn said.

"With all of the egregious behavior that we have seen on our elections security, we cannot stand for foreign influence, which we have direct evidence of," he said.

Although the Electoral College has declared presumptive President-elect Joe Biden the winner of the Nov. 3 presidential election, the Trump campaign has insisted that there has been voter fraud in states that include Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as Pennsylvania.

Despite multiple anecdotal claims of voting irregularities, proof has yet to surface that there was a widespread effort to distort the voting process in such as way that would have impacted the final results of the presidential election.

Numerous affidavits testifying to various types of election fraud have been filed in courts in several swing states. These affidavits indicate that those who witnessed conduct believe that fraud took place but those allegations have yet to be proven through either the courts or law enforcement.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 02:16 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cavalry or Calvary?
Posted by: Bertie Sneash3562 || 12/22/2020 5:06 Comments || Top||

#2  "foreign partners can provide evidence that will show there was foreign influence at work"

Ummmm....
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/22/2020 6:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Man, this is all Greek to me.

(Oder, das kommt mir Spanisch vor.)
Posted by: Clem || 12/22/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  This dude needs to go away. Why Trump brought a failed Democrat malcontent sycophant into the White House to begin with frustrates me. Flynn took a cool half million dollars from the Edrogan government on his way in...shames himself in front of the VP and gets fired. And now he is back? WTF? A lot of us knew what he was from his time in the DIA and the Flynn narcissistic crazy behavior has worsened. The dude has no standing to talk about foreign influence with Edrogan money in his pocket.
Posted by: Tennessee || 12/22/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Flynn opposed the IranScam deal. That's the real reason Obama wanted him destroyed ("put your best people on it," January 2017 to Comey).
Nothing to do w Erdogan.
Posted by: Hupinemble Snererong4596 || 12/22/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Just curious to see if the mods will let the kind of language above fly on this site...
Posted by: Tennessee || 12/22/2020 13:32 Comments || Top||

#7  The mods will let the language stand - as an example. Lots of FNGs these days it seems.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/22/2020 13:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Flynn's no saint. Neither are Powell, Giuliani or Lin Wood. Or Ted Cruz or Jim Jordan.

But all of these talented people, flawed in their own ways: share a central trait: they fight.

We need smart people who will fight. Need them more than ever. Cut Flynn some slack.
Posted by: Percy Thomomp2728 || 12/22/2020 14:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Amazng how so many people on the right are intent on finding fault with the people in their own squad, resulting in them taking them out with in the middle of the battle against enemy forces.

All the enemy has to do is sit back and watch and do nothing and their battle is won.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/22/2020 14:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Pistols at dawn for you two
Posted by: 746 || 12/22/2020 14:46 Comments || Top||

#11  "Your emotions are most discordant..."
Posted by: Rupert Dribble3379 || 12/22/2020 15:16 Comments || Top||

#12  Thank you Besoecker.
Posted by: Tennessee || 12/22/2020 16:34 Comments || Top||

#13  Besoeker redacts with precision/care. I don't have that option so I hammered the tool
Posted by: Frank G || 12/22/2020 18:52 Comments || Top||

#14  Thank you Mr. Frank G!
Posted by: Tennessee || 12/22/2020 19:14 Comments || Top||

#15  De nada. I'm as offended as you are
Posted by: Frank G || 12/22/2020 19:40 Comments || Top||

#16  w h a t i s t h e f r e q u e n c y K e n n e t h ?
Posted by: Cloluting Johnson2387 || 12/22/2020 22:12 Comments || Top||


Republicans See Encouraging Signs for Their Campaigns in Georgia Senate Run-off Races
[LI] As it stands now, Republicans hold a 50-48 advantage in the battle for who controls the Senate.

The two races in Georgia will ultimately decide control of the Senate. Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler faces a challenge from Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock. Republican Sen. David Perdue is facing off against Democrat Jon Ossoff.

Because none of them got to 50% on Election Day in November, runoffs were scheduled for the two races for Jan. 5th, 2021, to determine the winners.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that turnout has been high so far in early voting, approaching presidential levels:
Almost as many Georgians have voted in the U.S. Senate runoffs as at the same point before the presidential election, a huge turnout that reflects the high stakes of the race.

Over 1.1 million people had voted through Thursday, most of them at early voting locations that opened across the state this week, according to state election data.

Control of the Senate is at stake. Both parties have helped generate a higher than normal interest in these races, in part, by stepping up their ground games in the closing weeks of their respective campaigns. Republicans and their affiliated groups are continuing to build on the ground game they ran in the months leading up to Election Day. At the same time, Democrats have moved to make canvassing neighborhoods a priority again after mostly relying on digital campaigns, texting, mailers, and ads before last month’s elections.

In the ad wars, Politico reports Republicans are winning:
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 01:46 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of those who voted early, how many were Republicans, and how many were Democrats? That will tell the tale about the early votes. Will it be enough with election day to overcome the fraud mail-in ballots?
Posted by: Deadeye Jaiting7534 || 12/22/2020 6:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Also, 8000 notices have been sent to possibl illegal attempts to vote by mail-ballot for people that left the state after the election. Thats a felony (state prison time and/or fine) unless you meet a very specific set of circumstances.

I want them to make an example NOW of one of them, to dicourage the other cheaters.
Posted by: Deadeye Jaiting7534 || 12/22/2020 6:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump was going to win in a walk too...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 From what can be seen, apparently he did.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/22/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Not to worry, the dems are counting and counting. Their state will have a million more votes than eligible voter before this is over. There is no way, after all of the nations frauds that the dems will allow this to end with a republican senate… Just not gonna happen.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/22/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Which would be why we are not seeing any polling data. More Pravda MSM voter suppression in action.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/22/2020 13:08 Comments || Top||


AMAZING! Congress Got Paid Their Full Salary for 9 Months While they Argued About Giving Every American $600 of Their Own Money
[Gateway Pundit] Then Nancy delayed any assistance to working Americans following the government initiated coronavirus lockdowns until after the elections.

But why would Nancy worry? She could stay at home eating designer ice cream and still get paid. Whether she did anything or not. She chose to do nothing.

And now nine months later our betters in the US Congress FINALLY agreed to hand out a $600 dollar check to every American after they ruined the economy and millions of lives.

TRENDING: "Big News Coming Out Of Pennsylvania"- Trump Tweets: "Very Big Illegal Ballot Drop"

Thanks Nancy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 01:26 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Aren't we
A Government by the people, for the people?

Isn't it is time we made Congress answerable the voters and demand regulations that keep F-1000's and Mega-donors from buying influence and elections.

How about limiting donations to 10x the min/wage per person/Company per held election vote?

How about US $$$ ONLY, no foreign $$$?

How about restricting House and Senate race donations to ONLY in state $$$$ donors.

How about eliminating the incumbent advantages to make each election a level playing field?

How about requiring the Media to be required to clearly post/state "OPINION" vs "NEWS".

How about the Media being required to vet ALL Anonymous sources, and be held responsible/liable for broadcasted/printed bogus anonymous information?

How about since the Public Broadcast System (PBS) is funded by US Taxpayer $$$. For PBS to get Federal/State funds they must present fair, balanced, Unbiased NEWS and Documentaries? To keep it from becoming a Political PRAVDA.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/22/2020 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Not Yours To Give
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 12/22/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm more curious how much the side action went up. After all, power levers and privy information is where the big money is.

How about since the Public Broadcast System (PBS) is funded by US Taxpayer $$$. For PBS to get Federal/State funds they must present fair, balanced, Unbiased NEWS and Documentaries? To keep it from becoming a Political PRAVDA.

I think they are busy painting the NRA as a Russian Asset to rig the 2016 election.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/22/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||


The COVID Relief Bill Is Crap, and Other Things You Already Knew
[RightScoop] Well, Merry Effing Christmas! Congress has come to an agreement on the much ballyhooed COVID Relief Package!

My colleague Bonchie has already given the particulars, so I won’t belabor the finer points:
"Yesterday, Congress announced a deal had been reached on a new COVID relief bill, at least insofar as getting it to the floor for a vote. In reality, almost no one has actually read it. This all happened after months of stonewalling by Democrats as Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer sought to ensure maximum political damage occurred to President Trump. They played a cynical game with people’s lives and the media praised them for it.

"Well, now we are getting details about this newest "compromise." You’ll be less than shocked to learn that the bill is mostly trash, full of unrelated spending, and short on help for average Americans. In fact, only 1/5th of the bill goes to sending relief checks directly to the people."
As far as I’m concerned, instead of a lump of coal, it’s a turd in the stocking of Americans. Coal at least has a purpose, and doesn’t stink to high heaven of hypocrisy.

Now House and Senate leaders are blowing smoke up each other’s hind parts, and doing the cable shows as though they’ve done something monumental. We worked sooo hard for the American people. I think that’s supposed to be your job, right? Glad you finally got that.

Apparently, the incoming administration is also on record praising this "bipartisan" effort. They talk about this like they did 10 rounds with Mike Tyson instead of having dinners catered and lobbyists sending the copy. All they have to do is wipe flop sweat and floss for the cameras.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 01:17 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am still reading/skimming the Dec. 21st, 2020 agreed on 116th HR-133SA-RCP-116-68 bill/law/Budget.

This C19 Stimulus #2 Bill will requires days of Skimming. Because the damn thing is 5500+ pages long and only sections cover C-19.

COVID-19 STIMULUS 2

From the start it is clear C19 stimulus #2 was never going to agreed on until AFTER the Election for political campaign leverage. Screw the people for bragging rights, I guess.


Seriously $600????
This is BS after waiting 6+ months for the DC elite to agree on what type of Cake to feed the masses. But having said that, We must understand the DC Elite have already overdrawn the USA $20.3 Trillion with little show for it in the last 50 years.

So while the DC elite continued to play political games at our expense for political positioning. They get to live High On The Hog at our expense. All while we watched them steal and election, violate the Civil Rights of millions, and kill our economy with often useless C-19 Mandates.

Some Additional Info At AXIO
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/22/2020 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  At this point:

It's still legal for me to speak against abortion, but realistically it's not going away. Soon, despite its enshrinement in the national legal firmament, I will be at risk for going to jail for speaking negatively about it.

Same for the national debt. For now it's legal for me to grumble, soon that crazy talk will land me in federal stir.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Tucker Carlson: "My Tribe, My Tribe, NO!, MY Tribe
[FOX] It's easy to dismiss woke activism as a kind of childish sideshow that plays out mostly on college campuses and public radio shows. The cringing, the self-hatred, the hair-on-fire hysteria, the total obliviousness to historical reality -- the whole thing is like an adolescent rage fit that goes on forever.

At the University of Wisconsin last month, child activists convinced administrators to move a boulder on campus because they claimed it represented bigotry. It was a racist rock. That actually happened, along with countless other things like it. Our grandchildren are going to read about this moment and they're going to laugh in disbelief. At least, that's been our assumption.

But what if the current lunacy turns out to be more than a passing phase? What if race obsession is not a fad, but instead an incurable brain virus that's infected our country's entire leadership class? If that's the case, then we're in trouble. Our grandchildren won't laugh about what's happening right now. In fact, at this pace, a lot of Americans won't have grandchildren.

Here's America's highest-ranking guilty White guy explaining how he's hiring the people to run the federal agencies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2020 09:43 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who is still wasting their time on FauxNews?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#2  The parents of Cambodia in the 70's laughed when the kids said everyone over 30 must die. We should never laugh off people like AOC and their kind. It does not take much poison to kill the herd. They are dangerous, they should be dealt with, responsible adults should be there, not some bar w*&re.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/22/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Much of our military's leadership was moving in another direction to the point they have now come to resemble the anthropology department at Wesleyan.

Obama's treason runs deep.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/22/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 agree, this seems like its escalating in places like Portland and Seattle, they're getting bolder and it seems they now assume they are and will continue to be, mainstream... need to nip this in the bud
Posted by: 746 || 12/22/2020 13:40 Comments || Top||

#5  He's right: it's a virus of sorts. Our elites are so full of Woke self-hatred that it's now infecting the military.

The best historical analogy is to the manic hatred of the Tsar and the self-hatred that infected Russia's aristocratic and middle classes in the decades before 1917. We'll be lucky if we avoid Russia's fate.
Posted by: Flusoger Glomotch3280 || 12/22/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||

#6  ...most of the Russian peasantry weren't armed.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/22/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ the Bolsheviks armed them after 1917
Posted by: Lonzo Hatrack5379 || 12/22/2020 19:35 Comments || Top||

#8  49 Pan, being the US is as well armed as it is you'll see a series of take you with me and revenge assassinations before people go down meekly. I believe the left knows this, if not they will regret it if they push it that far.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/22/2020 19:59 Comments || Top||

#9  when does it start
Posted by: Elmagum Bonaparte8972 || 12/22/2020 21:37 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: Clem || 12/22/2020 23:44 Comments || Top||



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