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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Justice Department Is Struggling To Bring Capitol Riot Cases To Trial: Here's Why
[NPR] Early one morning in January, Suzanne Ianni peered through her window to discover two black SUVs and a police cruiser parked in front of her house. All she could think was: "Aw, they're here."

While Ianni had been expecting federal agents for days, she wasn't fully prepared for their arrival or for the moment when they said, "You're under arrest." "And I just sat down in a chair, I was trying to catch my breath," she told NPR. "And they're like, OK just relax," she said. "It's only a misdemeanor."

Ianni, a 59-year-old mother of three, is one of the more than 570 people charged as being part of the mob that overran the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. She stands accused of disorderly conduct and being inside a federal building illegally.

The morning the FBI came, she recalls her husband handing her a coat and some shoes and then when the agents told him "no laces," Ianni couldn't help but laugh. "I'm like OK, I'm not going to hang myself over trespassing, you know."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 07:04 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Proving someone guilty is oftentimes a very difficult task. Investigations and evidence gathering can literally takes months, even years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  But it will be the taxpayers who face the bills for false imprisonment, harassment, and political prosecution
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  This appears to be keeping the DOJ too busy to go after conservatives for all sorts of other thought crimes...
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2021 9:03 Comments || Top||

#4  And while DOJ fiddles around the political prisoners languish in AMERICAN prison with ZERO due process. DOJ needs to remember these are Americans, not AQ.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/28/2021 10:07 Comments || Top||

#5  And while Justice continues its navelgazing tens of thousands of illegals carrying the corona virus spread their disease throughout the USA. They create the situation that allows our masters in Washington to reintroduce lockdowns and increase their control over the hoi-polloi.
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 07/28/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#6  "I'm not going to hang myself over trespassing littering, you know."
Alice's Restaurant reference, for you young folks.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/28/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Justice will never be realized if a fourth category of cases are swept under the rug; left-wing extremists and provocateurs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#8  #1 Very droll, B. LOL.
Posted by: Matt || 07/28/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#9  I think it's because if they go to trial, they will lose and it'll look bad.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/28/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ That's gonna be awfully embarrassing for them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 13:59 Comments || Top||

#11  The process is the punishment
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||


Wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck, 66, found guilty of providing fatal meth doses to two men in exchange for sex as part of twisted 'party and play' fetish, now faces life in prison
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Ed Buck, 66, was found guilty Monday of nine felonies in the sex-for-drugs case

  • He was arrested in September 2019 following two deaths and multiple other overdoses

  • Gemmel Moore, 26, was found dead of an overdose in Buck's West Hollywood apartment in 2017

  • Timothy Dean, 55, died 18 months later and Buck was finally arrested, pleading not guilty and claiming his victims were drug addicts

  • A date has not been set for sentencing but he faces life in prison
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"May I invade your arse, young man,
And make like a true Af-ghan?"

"Oui monsieur, but do make sure,
I'm passed out fatally before."

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 4:19 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Railing people respectfully.
Posted by: Wren || 07/28/2021 6:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Worried? Who me ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 6:40 Comments || Top||

#4  several decades of large campaign contributions to Dems, e.g., Hillary, Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu, Gavin Newsom, Kamala

despite this, almost no coverage from NYT, WaPo, etc. - NYT in an article deep in the paper called him a 'small time donor'
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/28/2021 10:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Isn't West Hollywood included in Schiff's district? Photos show Schiff as clean-shaven. Thought he had a beard.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Thought he had a beard.

That's Nancy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#7  That's Nancy.
That's not a beard, just too many facelifts...
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/28/2021 14:00 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
First Insurrection Witness Supported Floyd Riots
[Post Millennial] Newly revealed tweets from Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn who testified before Congress on Tuesday during the Jan. 6 commission hearing shows that he was an ardent supporter of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots last year, said the burning of Kenosha was an "appropriate response."

Fox News host Tucker Carlson had previously predicted that the committee would have Dunn testify and called out the officer's radical activism. "Dunn will pretend to speak for the country's law enforcement community, but it turns out Dunn has very little in common with your average person. Dunn is an angry, left wing political activist whose social media feeds are full of praise, not coincidentally for Nancy Pelosi."

During Tuesday's Jan. 6 commission hearing, officer Dunn falsely claimed that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died as a result from injuries sustained on Jan. 6, which has been debunked by the Washington DC Chief Medical Examiner. The medical examiner found that officer Sicknick died of natural causes.
He doesn't dispute the M.E.'s report, just is sure the riot contributed to Sicknick's death. Somehow.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 07:45 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...he was an ardent supporter of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots last year, said the burning of Kenosha was an "appropriate response."

Excellent lead witness. Let's go with Harry Dunn. Please make sure he's solid with the talking points.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 9:28 Comments || Top||

#2 

BZZZT Mistrial! Get out!
Every witness looks Ugandan!
What's the world coming to,
when our voter cannot abandon
all politeness, and trash our
edifices an' all like a Wakandan?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Pelosi's Jan. 6th Committee = Partisan Star Chamber. Communist show trial is an alternate name for it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||


Texas police learn COVID-positive illegal immigrants sent to local hotels, after Whataburger encounter
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In response to the news, city officials are asking the public to adhere to social distancing measures and wear masks.

Fauci's science?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  I think we have found some of the soon to be accredited Texas Covid deaths.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||


Arizona Audit Twitter Accounts Removed by Big Tech
[The Last Refuge] A day after publicly announcing they are partnering with The Five Eyes intelligence community and Intelligence Branch of the U.S. government {Go Deep}, Big Tech moves to shut down the Twitter accounts of the Arizona Audit:

Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers anticipates she might be the next person to get shut down:



Also: Twitter Suspends 'Audit War Room' Accounts For WI, PA, NV, GA, AZ While Dems Start 1/6 'Show Trial'
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Silencing those seeking the truth. The Democrats are full om fascists.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/28/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  What's Big Tech afraid of? Whatever it is, censorship is not the answer.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Barack Obama is planning star-studded party at his $11.75 million Martha's Vineyard mansion to celebrate his 60th birthday and Oprah and George Clooney will get invites
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Martha's Vineyard Airport has, I think, fewer than 70 spaces available for private aircraft if they also provide commercial service. Could be a problem unless they shut down the commercial service.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/28/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I recommend seaplanes. The celebratory narcotics and distinguished visitors can always be brought in by seaplane.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#3  With climate change, Hussein's mansion will all soon be under water.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 15:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Superspreader event.
Posted by: KBK || 07/28/2021 22:40 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Insurection Theater Begins
[Fox News] The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is holding its first hearing Tuesday, kicking off what is likely to be a politically charged and contentious several months focusing on the violent day.
Won't such public testimony taint ongoing criminal investigations?
The Tuesday hearing focuses on "The Law Enforcement Experience on January 6th." The four witnesses at the hearing are Private First Class Harry Dunn and Sergeant Aquilino Gonell of the U.S. Capitol Police, and Officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges of the Metropolitan Police Department. They provided detailed and emotional testimony about the attack on the Capitol.

"To be honest, I did not recognize my fellow citizens who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 or the United States they claimed to represent," Gonell, an immigrant and Army veteran, said. "The rioters called me traitor, a disgrace, and shouted that I, I, an Army veteran and police officer, should be executed."
Instead, an Air Force veteran was executed.
"I heard specific threats from un-named, un-arrested, un-indited, co-conspirators to the lives of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and also Vice President Mike Pence," Gonell added, saying that he officers "fought hand to hand, inch by inch, to prevent an invasion of the Capitol by a mob intent on subverting our democratic process."
Antifa loaners from Portland?
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who is a vocal critic of Trump, followed Thompson with comments lamenting that a bill for a special commission modeled on the 9/11 Commission failed in the Senate. But, she said, the committee must investigate the events of Jan. 6 anyway.

"We must know what happened here at the Capitol," she said. "We must also know what happened every minute of that day in the White House. Every phone call. Every conversation. Every meeting leading up to during and after the attack."
That'd be interesting, if unlikely. Lots of horrifying testimony follows.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 07:28 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lots of testimony from U.S. Capitol Police personnel. Apparently nothing from the FBI. Very curious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 7:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Besoeker,

Because the FBI knows Antifa & BLM infiltrated and had a script the Feds have on tape. My guess.
Posted by: Lampedusa Angish2634 || 07/28/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, testimony loaded with 'made for teevee' video and emotion. A bit light on fore knowledge, causation, and facts.

And there I was in my freshly pressed uniform and they called me a 'worthless Mick pig.' You can easily understand my frustration and desire to shoot every last one of them.


Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  With fair elections, there is a good chance Pelosi will be removed from office in 2022; certainly removed as Speaker.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:12 Comments || Top||

#5  With fair elections,

In other words, her position is safe.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/28/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Biden administration proposes 'just the first' set of Buy American rule changes
[Washington Examiner] The Biden administration is announcing a new, proposed Buy American rule, which federal officials say marks "the most robust changes to implementation of the Buy American Act in almost 70 years."

Signed in 1933, the Buy American Act requires the federal government to only purchase goods determined to be at least 55% manufactured in the United States. The new proposed rule, which the administration will seek comment on for the next two months before publishing an official rule change, would immediately increase the domestic component threshold to 60% and gradually increase the threshold to 75% over the next decade.

The proposed rule marks "just the first set of proposed reforms to procurement policy under the Biden-Harris administration to ensure taxpayer dollars help American businesses compete in strategic industries and help American workers thrive," according to administration officials.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 07:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why does this sound more like the usual political graft dealing and less about the American worker?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  More inflation pressure.
More nationalization of power.
Another tool to oppress the honest and booster the crooked.
Another reason to bring more slave laborers here to pervert the country.
Posted by: boomerc || 07/28/2021 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Back a couple years when I was overseeing bridges (usually with Fed Highway funds) Buy America limited us to 1/2 of 1% foreign steel or iron
Posted by: Frank G || 07/28/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  'Buy America Rules'.....we may want to closely examine the small print concerning disclosure.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Blowing smoke?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Where will they get their computers? I wanna know because I'd like to know where I could get a computer Made in USA.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 14:30 Comments || Top||

#7  ..just turn over a square half mile of land that the computer factory sits on to the American embassy. Voila! Made in America.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 15:12 Comments || Top||

#8  I've been to 3 stores looking for work boots made in America. There were none.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/28/2021 17:09 Comments || Top||

#9  ^^^
Midwestboots.com - Work boots MADE IN AMERICA Catalog

Review the Brands and the Type of Boot you are interested in, find a 'local' supplier or order from the source....Just trying to help another RB reader.. Your Welcome
Posted by: Voldemort Borgia7443 || 07/28/2021 17:54 Comments || Top||

#10  For - Abu Uluque

American Made Computers

Just passing by thought I'd say ---Hi !

Its a start, there are more, good luck---thought I'd help another RB reader... You are Welcome.

Posted by: Voldemort Borgia7443 || 07/28/2021 18:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Another link for computers
RB does not want to use the link (tried 4 times) so here it is --- in the open ----
oneword
usa made products (dot) biz
Posted by: Voldemort Borgia7443 || 07/28/2021 18:08 Comments || Top||


Breaking: Biden DOJ Declares COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Legal
No credibility and flip-flopping. Vaxxed people might just refuse to play
[GatewayPundit] The Biden DOJ ruled that federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies, private business from requiring vaccines for employees

It was only a few months ago that Kamala Harris said she would NEVER take the Trump endorsed vaccine.

The Epoch Times reported:

The Department of Justice concluded in an opinion that federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring COVID-19 vaccines under the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization.

On July 26, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, California, and New York City said they would require some of their government workers to get the COVID-19 shot or be tested weekly. Veterans Affairs, with the move, became the first federal agency to mandate the vaccine.

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel on July 26 wrote (pdf) that because access to COVID-19 vaccines is more commonplace, “numerous educational institutions, employers, and other entities across the United States” have said they will require some individuals to be vaccinated against the virus as a condition of employment, participation, benefit, service, or relationship.

“For instance,” it wrote, “certain schools will require vaccination in order for students to attend class in person, and certain employers will require vaccination as a condition of employment.”

The opinion, which noted that some have questioned the legality of such mandates, concluded that federal law concerning the FDA’s emergency use authorizations (EUA) on COVID-19 vaccines made by Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson doesn’t “prohibit public or private entities from imposing vaccine requirements, even when the only vaccines available are those authorized under EUAs.”
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/28/2021 06:57 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That will never pass a court muster. And how many cases has the DOJ won under Biden? Oh yeah... zero.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/28/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  DOJ is overstepping, the courts make that call.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/28/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#3  DOJ Dawn Johnsen is a long-time Democrat toady. She previously worked as Dep. Attn Geeral for the Department of Justice under President Clinton.
President Obama nominated her to return to the Office of Legal Counsel as assistant attorney general but the Senate neglected to act on the nomination.
She taught Constitutional Law I and II, and Seminars in the Separation of Powers and Sexuality, Reproduction and the Constitution, according to the Maurer School of Law. Indiana U. website. Johnsen is also the wife of Mayor John Hamilton of Bloomington.
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 07/28/2021 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  yeah, since when does the DOJ detrmine what is legal or not? As the above comment , thought that was the courts job.
Posted by: Chris || 07/28/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#5  COVID Rebased -Serious Issues
Posted by: Alistaire Grusoter6809 || 07/28/2021 14:56 Comments || Top||


Maryland Voter Integrity Group Finds Serious Anomalies in Four Maryland Counties
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] The Maryland Voter Integrity Group announces today that a recent analysis into voter registration records and voting trends over the past decade shows remarkable anomalies in the most recent Presidential Election.

Maryland joins 35 other states in taking a closer look at in the integrity of election systems throughout, including at the county level. Former Army Captain and self-proclaimed #intelpatriot, Seth Keshel, assisted the recent analysis of Maryland county information.

Recent data provided by the Maryland Secretary of State office shows a number of trends from the past three Presidential elections, taking place in 2012, 2016, and 2020. In each of the four Counties of focus, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Frederick, and Harford, certain trends seem to be clear:
  • In all four Counties in the 2012 and 2016 elections, the Democratic vote increase remained marginal, ranging between 1% to 2% overall.

  • In 2020, however, these same metrics showing the Democratic vote increase spiked to between 34-37% in all four of these Counties. This appears to have taken place without any measurable population growth, registration expansion, or vote increase for either party.
These staggering findings highlight the need for a Full Forensic Audit of the 2020 election within these four Maryland Counties, and at the State level.

These incidents of massive inaccuracies in State Election Systems are not limited to Maryland. Investigations are ongoing in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan, and the recent Democratic Mayoral Primary in New York City also demonstrated what significant impacts these anomalies exert.

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sadly, that does not surprise me. This has been going on here for a very long time.
Posted by: Dale || 07/28/2021 4:03 Comments || Top||

#2  You mean to tell me our votes out here might be worth less than spit? And that we don't really pick many of our leaders. Is that what's coming out of many of these audits? Could that possibly be?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 22:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Kinda makes you wonder about all those cities that have not had a Republican administration for umpteen years.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/28/2021 23:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Antifa stooge preparing to run for Oregon governor
Democrat Oregon lawmaker @ Tina Kotek is preparing to run for governor. Last year her legislative director Kristina Narayan was arrested at an antifa riot. Kotek has also written a letter condemning police for protecting the police union hall from rioters.
Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 02:10 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sure she'll make a great Governor of Portland
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/28/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#2  How can Oregonians tell the difference from who they have now?
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 || 07/28/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope it wins
Posted by: Chris || 07/28/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||


Obama joins NBA Africa as strategic partner
[JPost] - Former US President Barack Obama has joined NBA Africa as a strategic partner to help advance social responsibility efforts across the continent, the National Basketball Association said on Tuesday.
I'm sure they'll love getting preached at by "I, me, mine"
Obama will have a minority equity stake in the new venture, which over time he intends to use to fund Obama Foundation youth and leadership programs across Africa.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 01:56 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Kevin McCarthy Goes There in Scathing Comments About Liz Cheney
[REDSTATE] GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy
...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's...
may finally be fed up with the political machinations of Liz Cheney
...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run....
. Today, when asked about the situation involving Cheney joining forces with Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Democrats: 'We're F***ed' with Election Integrity Laws in 18 States
[BREITBART] Democrats are worried about winning the 2022 midterm elections after Republican state legislatures reformed 30 election integrity laws in 18 states and additional legislation may come. CEO of the Stacey Abrams
...the pudgy, sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Stacey nominated herself to be Joe Biden's vice president nominee, to widespread national apathy. She has a very keen eye for Racism in any form, to include the imaginary...
-founded New Georgia Project, Nsé Ufot, told Politico, "If there isn’t a way for us to repeat what happened in November 2020, we’re f—ed."

Latosha Brown, cofounder of Black Voters Matter, told Politico that "hope is quickly turning into frustration." She then asked, "When in the hell are those who claim that they are committed to democracy going to show up to protect those that protect democracy?"
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, Amazon does sell 55 gallon drums of lube, so there should be enough for everyone.

For Worried Democrats
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/28/2021 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Nsé Ufot

...Real name, Scrabble board accident, or 'Tofu' spelled backwards - YOU be the judge!

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/28/2021 4:24 Comments || Top||

#3  'We're F***ed' with Election Integrity Laws in 18 States

That's why there is so much push-back on honest audits and election reforms.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:38 Comments || Top||


Florida Lawmaker Demands 2020 Election Audit to Insure Voter Confidence
[BREITBART] Florida State Representative and U.S. congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini (R) demanded the Florida Secretary of State and local Supervisors of Elections "initiate a forensic audit of the 2020 election in Florida’s five largest counties to help ensure voter confidence.""A full forensic audit of the five counties must be done immediately," Sabatini announced in a blurb. "Florida voters’ confidence in our elections is at an all-time low. Disturbing revelations in Arizona, Georgia, and other states make clear that the Secretary of State needs to do more than attempt to secure future elections."

"They must also look back and ensure that laws already on the books were followed in previous elections. This is a non-partisan issue and is a necessary step in ensuring voter confidence in future elections," he explained.

"These elections officials work for us—We the People—and it’s time they start showing some transparency about the 2020 election," Sabatini told Breibart News in reference to the five counties of Broward, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Orange.

When asked why an audit should be performed in Florida, where Trump and Republicans did well in 2020, Sabatini told Breitbart News that "every single state should have a random audit to figure out if there were discrepancies, just to be sure."

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Chicago mayor defends granting interviews only to reporters of color
[NYPOST] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black...
has reportedly defended her controversial decision to grant interview requests only to minority journalists — calling the number of non-whites covering her "unacceptable."

"I would absolutely do it again. I’m unapologetic about it because it spurred a very important conversation, a conversation that needed to happen, that should have happened a long time ago," Lightfoot told the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

’ "Sway" host Kara Swisher on Monday of the temporary May declaration.

As she marked her two-year anniversary in office in May, the Democrat — whose city is in the midst of a plague of gun violence and is on track to surpass last year’s total of 48 mass shootings — assailed the "overwhelming whiteness" of the Windy City’s media and announced that she’d grant one-on-one interviews only to minority members, Fox News reported.

"Here is the bottom line for me, to state the obvious, I’m a black woman mayor. I’m the mayor of the third-largest city in the country, obviously I have a platform, and it’s important to me to advocate on things that I believe are important," Lightfoot told Swisher.

"Going back to why I ran, to disrupt the status quo. The media is critically important to our democracy ... the media is in a time of incredible upheaval and disruption but our city hall press corps looks like it’s 1950 or 1970," she added.

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Only 1 Word needed to explain this.
RACIST!
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#2 
Ahm a reportur of color, Ma'am.
Ahh can color youse good.
An' report it done by crackers,
hyuk hyuk... just boys from mah hood.

Ahh did it for mah boy Jussie,
and Cory Ma'am, an' others.
Ahh kins do it for youse.
Say...how 'bout a tree noose?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Nothing racist on the part of the mayor. How about focusing on Chicago's problems; say, all the shootings and crime?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||


George P. Bush Fails to Win Donald Trump Endorsement
Surely there is another statewide role that does not have such strong a incumbent where he would have as much fun...
[BREITBART] Texas political figure George P. Bush failed to win an endorsement from former President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
on Monday for the state attorney general race.The former president endorsed current Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for reelection — even though he is under investigation by the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
for dealings with political donors and was indicted for securities fraud.

"Ken has my Complete and Total Endorsement for another term as Attorney General of Texas," Trump wrote. "He is a true Texan who will keep Texas safe—and will never let you down!"

George P. Bush, the son of failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush, worked hard to demonstrate to Trump he fully supported the president in an attempt to win his endorsement.

He pinned a picture of himself and Trump on his Twitter account, after visiting the former president in Bedminster, New Jersey in June.

During the campaign, Bush’s team gave out beer koozies reminding voters of positive things that Trump had said about him.

But Trump remained loyal to Paxton, who helped lead the fight challenging the 2020 presidential election by suing four battleground states. The Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
did not take up the case. Paxton also spoke at Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on January 6th to challenge the election results.

Bush responded to Trump’s endorsement by again pointing out Paxton’s legal troubles on social media.

"I’m running for Attorney General because Texans deserve integrity and honesty from the office of Texas’ top law enforcement official," Bush said. "Texans deserve a candidate without a laundry list of existing and potential criminal indictments."

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Paxton is under investigation by the FBI he must be doing something right.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 14:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it just me, or he does look sorta "Hispanic"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 15:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Bush’s Wife Columba Bush: Age, Net Worth, Height & More!

grom, you may consider Columba Bush's ethnicity a liability for her son's candidacy but I have no problem with it. Here in Southern California we interact with Hispanics all the time and there is usually no problem. The problem with George P. Bush is on his father's side of the family. Roosevelts, Kennedy's, Clintons and Bushes have done quite enough to this country.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/28/2021 16:27 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 I don't consider it a liability - I just asked a question. And I know that it could be an advantage in Texas.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2021 16:33 Comments || Top||

#5  He's white Hispanic a la George Zimmerman of Trayvon Martin fame.
Posted by: jpal || 07/28/2021 18:54 Comments || Top||


Schumer Directly Targets Trump Supporters, Asks How 74 Million Could Vote For a 'Despicable, Racist, Vile Man?'
How rude.
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] Over the weekend during a speech with New York State assembly member Rebecca Seawright, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer hammered Trump supporters, wondering how they could possibly vote for such a “vile man.”

“You probably ask yourself the same question I ask myself: How could 74 million people vote for such a despicable human being as Donald Trump,” Schumer said. “He is a vile man. He is dishonest. He is divisive — That’s what he loves to do, just divide people.”

Schumer continued, “He’s a racist and he always appeals to the dark side of human nature, which he’s very good at, unfortunately. How did they vote for him?”

The comments from Schumer are similar to those made by Hillary Clinton when she called Trump supporters “deplorables.”

Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Deserves a very slow and painful death.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 07/28/2021 2:25 Comments || Top||

#2  How could 81 million people vote for a disgrace to humanity like Biden?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/28/2021 4:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Hopking to testify at the Insurrection Theater, Chuckie?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/28/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Asks How 74 Million Could Vote For a 'Despicable, Racist, Vile Man?'

I thought Biden got more than 74 million?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||

#5  They didn't "hammer" me coz I don't give a fuck what they think.
Posted by: badanov || 07/28/2021 8:39 Comments || Top||

#6 

Note to Chucky"

Chucky, as you and Nancy know. It was closer to 82+ Million if the votes were honestly counted.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/28/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Just wait until shit goes kinetic butt nose. You will not last long.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/28/2021 11:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Ima wondering how many people voted for a dumbo like Schumer?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2021 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  How could 81 million people vote for a disgrace to humanity like Biden?

They didn't.... vote counting computers did
Posted by: Warthog || 07/28/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#10  The thing I find ridiculous is there is an episode of "The Apprentice" where the contestants are sent to Schumer's New York Offices.

Schumer explains that he and Trump knew each other since they were kids. Schumer's and Trump's father were both in real estate and frequently worked together. Schumer showed the contestants around and made it clear that they were old buddies and best friends.
Posted by: Creretch Lumumba7973 || 07/28/2021 12:46 Comments || Top||

#11  friends until he came after their grifting.
Posted by: Chris || 07/28/2021 13:50 Comments || Top||

#12  He needed Trump when Trump was a Capitalist for the same reason he hates Trump as a politician. Trump was/is much more famous/popular than Chucky.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/28/2021 16:02 Comments || Top||

#13  Because in spite of that he was a better choice by far.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/28/2021 16:02 Comments || Top||

#14  How could the people of New York vote for such a vile man as Chuckey?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/28/2021 17:14 Comments || Top||



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