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-Great Cultural Revolution
While Watching 'The View' In Hell, Hitler Surprised To Learn Holocaust Wasn't About Race
[Bee h/t Insty] HELL—Reports are coming out from the fiery underworld that even Adolph Hitler—the fascist dictator who is responsible for starting World War II and killing 6 million Jews—was caught by surprise when he heard Whoopi Goldberg’s comments that the holocaust he started was "not about race."

"I was very explicit in my writings and speeches! I compared the Jews to rats and to germs! I appealed to social Darwinism and eugenics on a constant basis to justify everything I did for the master Aryan race! How could this Whoopi Goldberg not pick up what I was laying down!?" the mustachioed psychopath was overheard shouting in a thick German accent.

Hitler was sure to hear about Whoopi’s views on the Holocaust since no matter what channel or streaming service one flips to in Hell, the only program that comes through on every channel is The View. Theologians and scientists don’t understand quite how it works, but the only broadcast signal that penetrates the metaphysical barriers surrounding the realm of eternal fiery torment is ABC’s The View.

At publishing time, Hitler issued a statement strongly condemning Whoopi Goldberg’s crazy conspiratorial views that race had nothing to do with his actions and also to bring back his favorite host Meghan McCain.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/05/2022 09:20 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Come on, someone out there do a Downfall parody of this.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/05/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#2  To me, hell would include forcing me to watch The View.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/05/2022 10:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Took the words right out of my mouth.
Posted by: Chris || 02/05/2022 12:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Nice, right? Back in the day, the damned were forced to watch endless reruns of Hello Larry! Gotta keep up with the times.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/05/2022 13:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Nothing grates on the nerves like the sound of Joy Behar's voice.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/05/2022 14:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Mit dem Angriff Steiners wird das alles in Ordnung kommen!
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/05/2022 17:33 Comments || Top||

#7  #4 - Hello Larry? LOL! Forgotten non-gem with post-MASH McLean Stevenson
Posted by: Frank G || 02/05/2022 17:42 Comments || Top||


Blue State Blues: Biden and the Democrats Destroy Black Women Who Are In the Way
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden is being criticized for promising to nominate a black woman to fill the forthcoming vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court — a promise that was a quid pro quo in exchange for Rep. James Clyburn’s endorsement in the 2020 primary.

No one objects to a qualified black woman being nominated to the highest court — and there are several worthy candidates, even if some have ideological views that might still prompt a conservative Republican to vote against their confirmation.

Rather, what is objectionable is the fact that Biden — who had to apologize to Anita Hill on the campaign trail — has placed race and sex first.

Such criteria are generally considered unconstitutional by the Supreme Court’s own previous jurisprudence. They are also demeaning to the nominee, exclusionary toward other qualified candidates, and corrosive of public trust in the judiciary.

The reality is that Biden and the Democrats don’t particularly care about the rise of black women in government, and have zealously tried to undermine them on many occasions.

As Breitbart News’ Paul Bois noted earlier this week, Biden filibustered a conservative black judge, Janice Rogers Brown, nominated by then-President George W. Bush, for two years. Democrats were afraid that Republicans might appoint her to the Supreme Court and take credit for that historic milestone.

A more recent example is that of Jackie Lacey, the former District Attorney of Los Angeles County. She was the first black woman to hold that position. She presided during a time when relations between the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the black community had improved dramatically — until the Black Lives Matter movement arose, and targeted her, claiming that she was not doing enough to prosecute police officers. They threatened her and marched to her private home.

Enter George Soros, who had begun spending millions of dollars to elect radical left-wing prosecutors who would pursue “criminal justice reform” in American cities. At first, some Democrats resented his intervention, since Soros’s candidates were usually running against incumbent Democrats. But then they all fell in line — most notoriously L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who shamefully withdrew his endorsement of Lacey in 2020 and backed Soros’s man, George Gascón, instead.

Gascón has presided over a staggering rise in violent crime, which recently claimed the life of Jacqueline Avant, a wealthy black woman widely known and admired for her philanthropy. Avant was murdered during a home invasion and robbery, allegedly by a man who had been released from prison on parole supervision.

When asked to explain the murder, Gascón blamed the “system.” Yet not one of the Democrats who endorsed him has backed the ongoing campaign to recall him.

In the 2020 election, when Republican Winsome Sears became the first black lieutenant governor of Virginia, Democrat pundits claimed she was a “black mouth moving” and “speaking on behalf of a white supremacist legacy.”

There are other, more subtle, snubs. White House press secretary Jen Psaki defends Biden’s use of race and gender to select a Supreme Court justice. Yet she cannot and will not explain how she has her own job, bypassing a black woman, Symone D. Sanders, who paid her dues by working for Biden throughout the 2020 presidential campaign. Sanders was relegated to the vice president’s office and recently quit to join MSNBC.

Harris is, of course, the first black woman to be elected vice president. Yet somehow she has been given all of the worst and most difficult tasks — solving the border crisis, for example, which Biden caused by urging migrants to come to the U.S.

The Democrats do not care about the advancement of black women as such, nor about whether black women benefit from their policies. Democrats’ main interest is the exploitation of identity for political purposes — and, sadly, it seems to work.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Oops! 7 Allies Biden Needlessly Angered in 2021
"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up"
[Breitbart] Upon assuming the presidency, Joe Biden promised the world, “America is back,” building on his campaign claims that President Donald Trump had severely damaged relations with the country’s allies.

It took very little time for Biden to turn that promise into a punchline, enacting bizarre unilateral policies that prompted distancing, confusion, and more than one passionate rant against his administration from heads of state of countries that traditionally have had no issue with Washington. On nearly every continent, Biden found a way this year to outrage allied leaders with policies that did little to benefit the United States.

Below, just seven of the allies around the world who trust America a little bit less thanks to Biden.
France, Canada, South Africa, Taiwan, Ukraine, Colombia, and Israel explained at the link.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


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Facebook's Apple-Induced Face Plant Could Haunt Company A While
[InvestorsBusinessDaily] Facebook has set a number of records in its 18-year existence, but the latest threshold eclipsed by parent company Meta Platforms (FB) is more scar than beauty mark. And that blemish — a free fall that cratered FB stock this week — will live on for a while.

Following its quarterly earnings report that was short across-the-board, FB stock on Thursday set a record when shares collapsed by 26.4%. In the process, its market valuation plunged by more than $232 billion.

That's the biggest one-day drop in market value for any company in the history of the U.S. stock market. It took the top spot from Apple (AAPL), which lost $182 billion in market value in September 2020.

FB stock dipped 0.3%, closing at 237.09 on the stock market today.

It was "a disaster quarter that will remembered for ages on Wall Street," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told clients in a note this week.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apple induced? Didn't Apple apply that patch last year?

And no mention of their Censorship.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/05/2022 14:30 Comments || Top||


Here Is What's Behind Today's Stunning Payrolls Beat
[ZeroHedge] For those who only look at headlines, today's payrolls report was a veritable shock: coming in at 467K, it was almost 4x the consensus median expectation of 125K, and was orders of magnitude above Goldman's forecast of -250K. Putting the stunning, 3-sigma beat in context, it came above all 78 estimates, and was more than double the highest forecast of 225K from HSBC. Even more ludicrous were historical adjustments which saw December increased from 199K to 510K, November from 249K to 647K and so on.

How is that possible?

After all even CNBC - while interviewing labor secretary Marty Walsh - couldn't believe the BLS data, prompting the secretary to repeat on many occasions that the numbers are "credible" and he "stands behind them" and of course he will: after all, taken at face value the numbers signal a resilient labor market and demand for workers despite omicron’s hit. The gains were broad-based, spanning retail, hospitality, transportation and warehousing, business services and others. In short, contrary to data from even the Atlanta Fed whose GDPNow shows Q1 GDP rising just 0.1%, the labor data indicates an economy firing on all cylinders and growing strong.

But is that true?

Well, here's what happened. First, looking at just the December to January change we find that while the seasonally adjusted number rose by an impressive 467K, the unadjusted number collapsed, tumbling from 150.349 million to 147.525 million, a 2.8 million drop (as it tends to do every time the year shifts from December to January) meaning that the entire delta in the January number - somewhere in the 3+ million range - is due to arbitrary adjustments overlaid on top of the data.
Posted by: Spike Spavimble2925 || 02/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The article also explains that the deep state also did this to Trump in 2017 (in the opposite direction) adjusting the job numbers downward and pushing Obama's numbers up.

The trick is to make the opposing changes to months 3 to 6 months in the past so no one will notice.
Posted by: Andy Smiter of the Seminoles || 02/05/2022 11:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Magic numbers. They're not just for COVID propaganda...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/05/2022 12:11 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Liquidation in Atma
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Regarding the story of the "heroic operation to eliminate Al-Quraishi."

1. In January, for a long time, one could observe a visual disgrace of the United States and the Kurds in Hasakah, who first allowed the seizure of the prison with ISIS militants, and then for a long time tried to return the captured prison to control. even after some of the militants safely slipped away from the captured object.

2. The large number of casualties, the scattered militants and the timing of the suppression of the riot caused serious accusations in the American press about the American strategy in Rojava in general and the effectiveness of the US-sponsored Kurds in particular.

3. After some time, in order to prove the "effectiveness of the occupation", the liquidation of Al-Qurayshi is carried out, which they try to furnish in the same unique style as the liquidation of Bin Laden (about which there were also many questions) or the liquidation of Al-Baghdadi (again However, she also had questions).

4. Of the 13 people killed, 10 were civilians (4 women, 6 children, including minors), and according to the US, it was not even they who killed, but Quraishi blew up the suicide belt and the US had nothing to do with the deaths of women and children. Along the way, during the operation, they lost a helicopter, which they finished off with drones.

5. At the same time, Quraishi lived quite calmly on the territory of the Turkish zone of occupation, in the "security square" next to the police station, the HTS checkpoint and the checkpoint on the border. Lived for 11 months. How other ISIS leaders lived quietly before him. This is to the question of what the US-covered "free Idlib" zone represents, where the leaders of ISIS and Al-Qaeda live quietly for the time being. For some reason, ISIS leaders prefer not to live in the territory controlled by Assad.

6. According to Biden, the operation was planned just a few days ago (from receiving information to the operation - 3 days), that is, after the events in Hasaka were over. And Al-Quraishi was allegedly involved in organizing the attack, although the militants who attacked the prison did not come from Idlib, but from Anbar province (in Iraq). No evidence has been presented that Quraishi had anything to do with the Hasaka attack.

7. In general, it looks like the United States urgently needed to show success in the "fight against terrorism" (it is difficult to pass off the storming of the prison as it), therefore, quite by accident, one of the leaders of ISIS is found on the territory of the Turkish zone of occupation (who has been officially wanted for many years), who lives quite calmly with his family in a "security square" 2 km from the Turkish border (Baghdadi lived 5 km from the Turkish border) I would not even rule out that the Americans have long known where he is hiding, for example, from colleagues by Turkish military intelligence.

What is happening is sharply reminded of the "retaliation strikes" in the last days before the US flight from Afghanistan, when ISIS leaders were also "killed" in retaliation for their attack on the Kabul airport. In general, it is difficult to get rid of the impression that there is a certain pattern.

8. Opinion polls show that Biden's rating after the announcement of the liquidation of Al-Qurayshi increased by 1%.
A whole one percent? Golly.


Posted by: badanov || 02/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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  Day 3: 50 US commandos encountered baby toys, suicide bomb during lethal raid on IS leader
Fri 2022-02-04
  Gunmen Burn Nigerian Army Personnel Along With Military Vehicle In Ebonyi
Thu 2022-02-03
  ISIS Leader Killed During Raid in Syria by U.S. Special Forces
Wed 2022-02-02
  Iraqi intelligence destroys 80 ISIS IEDs in Ninevah village
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  The leader of the Hamza Division eliminated in Aleppo province
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  Cairo court sentences 10 to death over terrorism charges; including Yehia Mousa
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  Russia insists ‘we don’t want wars’ as it ponders Ukraine-NATO answer
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  SDF declare victory in week-long ISIS stand off in northeast Syrian prison, 181 dead thus far
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  Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Announces Retirement
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  Over 120 Killed After ISIS Mass Prison Break In US-Occupied Northeast Syri, 140+ as of Monday
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  Egyptian court sentences Mufti of Al-Qaeda affiliate 'Al-Nusra Front' to life in prison
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  56 IS terrorists killed in northeast Syria
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