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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago mayor puts liquor curfew in place
after spike in gun violence as boy, 15, becomes the NINTH person killed in the city in 48 hours
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Probably as effective as the gun laws.
Posted by: borgboy || 04/11/2020 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  That will trigger the looting.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/11/2020 1:33 Comments || Top||

#3  This time they will get prohibition right!

/yeah, sure
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/11/2020 5:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Wow. Chicago. Now the gangs have two markets. 6am - 9pm drugs. 9pm - 6am bootlegging. Boys we're back in business!

YJCMTSU
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/11/2020 8:38 Comments || Top||

#5  This is the same dame who went out and got a hair-do despite her stay-in-place order. I guess it follows, then, that we'll see here out shopping for some hooch.
Posted by: Clem || 04/11/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Now the gangs have two markets. 6am - 9pm drugs. 9pm - 6am bootlegging.

Will there be a designated Shooting Hour also? Asking for a friend with a list.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/11/2020 12:28 Comments || Top||

#7  That'll probably work so well, it'll become permanent!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/11/2020 13:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Will there be a designated Shooting Hour also?

Puts me to mind of the WB cartoon with Sam coyote and Ralph the sheepdog punching out after going at it all day.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/11/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#9  ' night, Ralph
' night, Sam
Posted by: Lex || 04/11/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#10  Ralph Wolf
Sam Sheepdog
Posted by: Lex || 04/11/2020 13:11 Comments || Top||

#11  This entire show has been about nothing more than letting those yearning to exert their power over others do so.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/11/2020 14:28 Comments || Top||

#12  From Ace of Spades:
Things are rapidly spinning into a dystopian police state in some areas.

I would say I pity those who meekly voted for enslavement, but I do not.

I would say I pity those that meekly follow their orders into the teeth of an armed populace, but I do not.

I would say I pity the children of both parties, and I mean that wholeheartedly.

It is not the fault of the innocent that their parents choose either the shackles or the strong arm of tyranny.

The over-reaction to this wu-flu is a genie that will be nigh impossible to put back into its bottle. We have set a new standard for dealing with large-scale crises, and that standard is unprecedented power to the state.

There are no saints who pursue, much less win, public office. There are only people with a will to power, certain of their own cause.

As much as I have grown to appreciate President Trump, I don't trust him nor any other elected official to give back any power they have attained, no matter how pure their intentions may be.

I pray all choose wisely from here on. The alternative could make us all wish instead for the casualties predicted in those ridiculous wu-flu computer models.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/11/2020 14:29 Comments || Top||

#13  SOMEONE should check her rug burn on her chin? It is influencing her thought process.
Posted by: ranture || 04/11/2020 14:52 Comments || Top||

#14  As much as I have grown to appreciate President Trump, I don't trust him nor any other elected official to give back any power they have attained, no matter how pure their intentions may be.

Around the campfire the other night, we brought this subject up: the concern is that the usual suspects who are thanking Trump are, in a way, acknowledging the precedents set for if/when one of their team get into the Oval Office and cite Trump's action as gospel. If you heard random thunderclaps one evening it was when firearms/ammo were recognized as vital.

Eh, State of Virginia?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/11/2020 15:28 Comments || Top||

#15  Politicians are not too keen in preventing problems in the first place. They are reactionary, and then it "shows" that they are "doing something". Preventing something (not just coronavirus stuff) isn't all that sexy.
Posted by: Clem || 04/11/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||

#16  In Munich speakeasies are appearing... shhhhhh
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/11/2020 15:48 Comments || Top||

#17  Prost! And I can assume Starkbierfesteeit wurden abgesagt, gell?
Posted by: Clem || 04/11/2020 16:03 Comments || Top||

#18  /\ Entschuldigung... *Starkbierfeste
Posted by: Clem || 04/11/2020 16:12 Comments || Top||

#19  Indeed they were
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/11/2020 16:12 Comments || Top||

#20  The Nockherberg was never the same after the "fire". Man, probably a good 20 years ago now. Wie die Zeit vergeht.....
Posted by: Clem || 04/11/2020 16:15 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
NYT Calls Out De Blasio, Cuomo For Coronavirus Failures
[Daily Wire] After weeks of criticizing President Trump, often unfairly, for his response to the coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times published a lengthy and rather damning piece on Wednesday detailing the belated and at times counterproductive response of the two most prominent Democratic leaders in New York: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. For, finally, providing a more even-handed critique of the Democratic politicians calling the shots at the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S., some of the Times’ readers have thanked the paper, though many made a point of noting that the critique was coming rather late in the game.

"For many days after the first positive test, as the coronavirus silently spread throughout the New York region, Mr. Cuomo, Mr. de Blasio and their top aides projected an unswerving confidence that the outbreak would be readily contained," the Times reports.
I can hardly wait for their rebuttal.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/11/2020 12:41 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Not far left enough." They all say that about each other.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/11/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||

#2  "Roper, we must just pray that when your head's finished turning your face is to the front again.."
Posted by: Lex || 04/11/2020 13:16 Comments || Top||

#3  BFD - they'll be back to full-time Trump bashing on Monday; they're just doing this so they can (unconvincingly) say 'we're even handed' (kinda, sorta, not really).
Posted by: Raj || 04/11/2020 14:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Cuomo Strikes Back!

“Where were the warning signs? Who should have blown the whistle?" Cuomo asked at a daily briefing. “The president has asked this question, and I think he’s right. The president’s answer is the World Health Organization should’ve been blowing the whistle.” The Hill
Posted by: Bobby || 04/11/2020 14:14 Comments || Top||

#5  CHO blew something.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/11/2020 15:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
FBI failed to review Steele's ties to Russians, warned some of dossier was Moscow disinformation
[Just The News] Declassified footnote lays out intelligence community concerns about Steele's ties to Russia and disinformation

Key FBI officials failed to review an intelligence file identifying Christopher Steele's ties to Russian oligarchs and were later advised some of the information he provided agents in his dossier appeared to be misinformation planted by Russian intelligence, according to declassified information made public Friday.

The explosive revelations were contained in footnotes that had been originally redacted from Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz's December report on FBI failures in the Russia case. The information was provided to two Senate committees in recent days.

One of the newly declassified footnotes highlights a glaring misstep early in the Russia case, when key officials failed to review the intelligence control file for Steele, a former MI6 agent who approached the FBI with unverified allegations about Trump after he was hired to do opposition research by the firm working for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.

Checking such files is a basic procedure in a counterintelligence probe when an informant is involved, officials told Just the News.
Really no sense looking for that which you have no desire to find.
The footnote states that an FBI intelligence analyst and a supervisory special agent working on the Crossfire Hurricane probe admitted they "did not recall reviewing information in Steele's Delta file documenting Steele's frequent contacts with representatives for multiple Russian oligarchs in 2015."

"In addition to the information in Steele's Delta file documenting Steele's frequent contacts with representatives for multiple Russian oligarch, we identified reporting the Crossfire Hurricane team received [redacted] indicating the potential for Russia disinformation influencing Steele's election reporting," a second footnote revealed.

Specifically, that footnote added: "A [redacted] 2017 report relayed information from [redacted] outlining an inaccuracy in a limited subset of Steele's reporting about the activities of (former Trump lawyer) Michael Cohen. The [redacted] stated that it did not have high confidence in this subset of Steele's reporting and assessed that the referenced subset was part of a Russian disinformation campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations."
Posted by: Frank G || 04/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing says 'failure' like Waco, TX Feb 28, 1993 – Apr 19, 1993. Before or after, an organization very difficult to handle from the clean end.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/11/2020 4:07 Comments || Top||

#2  You can never declare something a failure until you know what the real goal was.

I wouldn't trust any claims from these what would you call thems at all now.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/11/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Russian involvement? I know that claim has been made repeatedly by our media but I haven't seen any evidence yet. This was largely a home-grown effort by the left/Deepstate (read as previous administration) with some input from foreign sources to keep Trump from getting elected and then take him down after he was elected.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/11/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Image result for obama and brennan memes

Other inputs to the Russian B.S....
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/11/2020 8:26 Comments || Top||

#5  My shocked face is still in the shop.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/11/2020 9:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Great - the fucking ghost of Sarah Hoyt speaks - way to kill my morning, DV.
Posted by: Raj || 04/11/2020 11:02 Comments || Top||

#7  My shocked face is in storage
I smelled a rat from the beginning and knew that some of the last minute order sent out by Rice pointed the way to this being a palace coup
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/11/2020 11:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Just in case anyone forgot, Steele's claims we're so f---ing obviously false, even a child with rudimentary knowledge of Russia and Russians could have seen that the man pulled them out of thin air.

Start with the fact that Trump like any westerner has absolutely zero chance of scoring a beneficial real estate deal in the heart of center-city, inner ring Moscow. Add the fact that Trump the germophobic hotel owner could not possibly even imagine soiling the presidential suite of someone else's hotel-- let alone doing so as an idiotic means of spiting an American guest at that hotel.

Who the f--- could come up with such a retarded scenario?

Answer: a pair of drunks at a bar, when one drunk is a mendacious and greedy, incompetent hack on the make and the other is a Russian agent plying the former with Krystal.
Posted by: Lex || 04/11/2020 11:11 Comments || Top||

#9  "Too good to check" is a journalistic standard, not a law enforcement standard.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/11/2020 12:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Supervisor Special Agent FBI pay $164,028 per GlassDoor. Corrupt politician to over paid corrupt bureaucrat, "Don't forget who got you that kind of income."
Posted by: Dr. Wheat Faartz007 || 04/11/2020 13:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Always happy to help, Raj!
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/11/2020 14:06 Comments || Top||


Gov. Inslee owes US Army, Feds an apology
[MYNORTHWEST] A week ago, Jay Inslee slammed our federal government for not doing enough for our state.

"The fact is, we cannot get as much help as we would like from the federal government", he said.

This was a week after the United States Army, under orders from the Trump administration, sent hundreds of soldiers to build a 250-bed hospital at the Century Link Field Events Center.

That hospital has sat empty ever since. Not one patient. On Wednesday, Inslee announced that he wanted the facility disassembled and sent back to the federal government. How much do you think think this assembly and disassembly is costing taxpayers? No one will give me a figure.

Earlier this week, Inslee announced that he is returning 400 ventilators to the feds that we don’t need.

A week ago, he said the administration wasn’t doing enough for our state. Now, it’s clear, they’ve done way too much. A person of integrity would apologize for his phony criticism. That apology, of course, will never come.

Also, given that we are killing our regional economy based on the data that led to the unnecessary hospital and ventilator requests, is it any wonder that skepticism is growing about the decisions that are wiping out the financial lives of business owners and the unemployed?

Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't hold your breath.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/11/2020 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  On Wednesday, Inslee announced that he wanted the facility disassembled and sent back to the federal government.

Of course, once the quarantine is eased, covid may brake out again - will he ask for the hospital to be reassembled?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2020 0:16 Comments || Top||

#3  It depends on how well the meds work and how readily they are supplied, g(r)omgoru. If, as I suspect, this becomes a normal treatable illness, no reason to rebuild the hospitals.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/11/2020 0:32 Comments || Top||

#4  IMO, he'll still criticize Drumpf, and his hospital back!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2020 0:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Come November, it will be interesting just how politicized COVID-19 becomes. If this fades away like others flus before it, then all these Inslee types need to be drummed out of office toute suite, be they Gov's, Rep's, or Sen's.
Posted by: Clem || 04/11/2020 7:10 Comments || Top||


Michael Moore: ‘White Men Have a Big Responsibility to Make Amends for the Trump Era’
[BREITBART] Documentary filmmaker and far-left activist Michael Moore is blaming white men for the rise of President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
, saying in his podcast that white males must "make amends" for the current administration.

The Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine director devoted a significant amount of time near the end of his podcast Rumble with Michael Moore to railing against conservative white men.

"Men — especially white men have a big responsibility to make amends for the Trump era," Moore said on Thursday. "Those amends will happen. People will see the error of their ways." It’s worth noting that, in the 2016 election, Trump won 52 percent of white women votes and 52 percent of the male vote overall.

Moore also said the days of white men being the dominant demographic in the U.S. are numbered. "They will be the minority. They’re already the minority."
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Making jobs available for people of color. The horror, the horror.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/11/2020 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Time for white males to become, just a tad, violent?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2020 0:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Does anyone listen to little Mikey Moore?
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/11/2020 0:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Does anyone listen to little Mikey Moore?

Yeah, I think the sound of his jowls rubbing against his thighs is pretty hard to miss...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/11/2020 4:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Ref #4: Yeah, I think the sound of his jowls rubbing against his thighs is pretty hard to miss...

Hopefully there are numerous other, much more serious....preexisting conditions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/11/2020 5:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Mikey has surely eaten taken more than his share. He can make begin to make amends by giving his waterfront properties to one born a poor black child.
Posted by: Neville and Tenille3829 || 04/11/2020 9:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Well a white man and white woman have a big responsibility to make amends for bringing you into this world. Just saying.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/11/2020 9:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Did fatso ever sell his Halliburton shares?
Posted by: Clem || 04/11/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#9  "They"??
Posted by: Lex || 04/11/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||

#10  far-left activist Michael Moore is blaming white men

Let me be the first to apologize for how stupid and fat I have made you. It's all on me! My fault! Guilty!
Oh, wait! That's not the reason this time!? Well, whatever.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/11/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#11  When did Fat White Mikey morph into LeD'wann?
Posted by: Lex || 04/11/2020 10:59 Comments || Top||

#12  Did Planet Mikey manage to exclude himself from the great 'white male atonement'? Implicitly, yes; explicitly, no.

I'd like to see this fat fuck run the 100 yard dash; I bet he'd be well over 20 seconds.
Posted by: Raj || 04/11/2020 11:08 Comments || Top||

#13  Hmmm, why are virtually all sprinters black? Hey, Fatso Mikey, think we should change that?
Posted by: Clem || 04/11/2020 11:10 Comments || Top||

#14  Maybe this is Mikey's way of announcing his gender reassignment surgery. Which I imagine in his case would be an outpatient procedure.
Posted by: Matt || 04/11/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||

#15  Funny how so many lefty-entrepreneurs -- that 'Young Turk' no-neck shithead is just the latest -- seem to follow Fat White Mikey's practice of trashing his own employees' efforts to unionize.
Posted by: Lex || 04/11/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||

#16  moores BUTT plug is leaking again? OH, Wait its the other........never-mind! BOTH are the same on moore
Posted by: ranture || 04/11/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#17  Actually his father and mother owe the world a bifg apology for f.cking tha night instead of going to the theater.
Posted by: JFM || 04/11/2020 19:10 Comments || Top||


Democrat Tom Malinowski Jokes about Withholding Coronavirus Disinfectant from Kentuckians
[BREITBART] Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) reportedly said on Thursday that he has fantasized about holding up coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
disinfectant from Kentuckians to make Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pass more Democrat measures.

Malinowski, a Democrat representing New Jersey’s seventh congressional district, said in a call that he would threaten McConnell by withholding Lysol for his constituents.

"Fun fact about Somerset County [New Jersey], we make 100 percent of the national supply of Lysol disinfectant," he said in a video obtained by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). "I’ve thought about using with Mitch McConnell, like, ’Hey, we’re going to hold up the Lysol for Kentucky until you pass her" bill.
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does anybody, except the military of course, uses Lysol nowadays?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2020 8:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, grom. But it's hard to find these days.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/11/2020 13:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Rep. Malinowsi apparently is unaware of EPA's List N: Products with Emerging Viral Pathogens AND Human Coronavirus claims for use against SARS-CoV-2

Useful against human coronavirus starts in the middle of page 10 and runs through to page 15. There's quite a lot of them.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/11/2020 15:38 Comments || Top||

#4  And you can sort the list by product name, (virus) application, contact time and more.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/11/2020 15:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Does anybody, except the military of course, uses Lysol nowadays?

Yes, grom. But it's hard to find these days.


Local news had to come out the other day and remind the Bait Ball People to stop spraying their kids down with it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/11/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Bait Ball People?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||


Biden Claims People Refer to Him as a 'Foreign Policy Expert'
[TOWNHALL] During a virtual town hall event on unemployment and issues facing working families, Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
claimed that people refer to him as a "foreign policy expert."
They refer to me as a suave ladies' man, too.
The comment came after the former vice president gave a long-winded response to a woman who had just lost her job and asked how laid off union workers can keep the healthcare coverage they had.
How to say “I don't know” in 600 words or more.
"As you and I have talked about this, senator, I’m always talked about as being a foreign policy expert, healthcare is more complicated than foreign policy," he told Nevada state Sen. Yvanna Cancela, who moderated the event. "Healthcare is complicated. It really is daunting for an awful lot of people."
All of which has squat to do with the lady's health insurance.
But Robert Gates, who served as President Obama's Defense Secretary, described Biden as being quite the opposite.
Probably his hair sniffing habit comes up more often in conversation.
"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," he wrote in his book, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War."
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obviously, Joe reads Rantburg.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/11/2020 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Joe can't recognize sarcasm.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/11/2020 0:11 Comments || Top||

#3  The presidential debates should be interesting. Not certain how the Orange Man will handle Joe. That defibrillator and drip mounted to Biden's podium may inhibit more free and candid exchanges.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/11/2020 4:02 Comments || Top||

#4  how laid off union workers can keep the healthcare coverage they had.

Maybe if your Union paid for it instead of paying Democrat campaign contributions and graft?
Nahhhh
Posted by: Frank G || 04/11/2020 6:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Foreign policy expert? More like a foreign money laundering and self-enrichment expert. Warning: Keep him away from your children!
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/11/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Foreign policy === Hair sniffing
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 04/11/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#7  that people refer to him as a "foreign policy expert."

More people refer to you as a demented old pervert.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/11/2020 13:20 Comments || Top||

#8  that people refer to him as a "foreign policy expert."

While laughing.
Posted by: charger || 04/11/2020 15:12 Comments || Top||

#9  that people refer to him as a "foreign policy expert."
Usually while making air quotes with their fingers as they say it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/11/2020 17:08 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ This
Posted by: Frank G || 04/11/2020 19:57 Comments || Top||

#11  "I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," he wrote in his book, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War."

That Joe! He's like the Paul Erlich of foreign policy.

Sorry Joe, but people calling you that just doesn't make it so. People call me "That REDACTED!" all time, but it doesn't mean I am. Not totally, anyway.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/11/2020 22:02 Comments || Top||


Biden and Trump Agreed to Keep Details of Their Call Private. Then Biden Told Us Everything He Said
[FREEBEACON] Biden told a local Philadelphia news station on Tuesday that he and Trump "agreed we wouldn't go into detail" beyond acknowledging they had a phone call to discuss the pandemic. In that same interview, however, Biden disclosed the recommendations he offered the president. "The generic suggestion I made is the federal responsibility, a federal response is necessary," Biden said. "And that I thought we needed one supply commander, nationally, and identifying where all the product needed was and how to distribute it around the country."

In a Tuesday night interview on CNN, Biden was pressed to break his silence by anchor Chris Cuomo, who asked Biden, "Why is it a good thing for the American people for you guys to talk but us not really know what happened?" The former vice president responded by detailing exactly what he recommended to the president.

"I laid out the five things I thought he should be doing now and suggested how I thought he should go about doing," Biden said before laying out his suggestions, which beyond the appointment of a supply commander were to fully implement the Defense Production Act, open up enrollment for Obamacare
...aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
, ramp up testing, and collect more data on African Americans who have caught the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
Biden on Wednesday continued to detail his call with Trump during a virtual fundraiser, according to Brittany Shepherd of Yahoo! News, who wrote in her pool report that Biden "briefly touched on his phone conversation" with Trump during his meeting with donors. Biden not only went into further detail to the donors about what he suggested to Trump, but also how Trump responded, according to the report.

"[Biden] also suggested that Trump appoint a supply commander to oversee the distribution," Shepherd wrote. "Trump suggested, according to Biden, that a rear admiral is taking up that responsibility to some degree. But Biden does not think that is enough."

The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment on his discussions of the phone call with Trump. A White House front man declined to comment on the call with Biden or detail any arrangement made to keep it private.

Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The span between when did he know and when did he forget is diminishing exponentially. No later than October I expect a Silver Alert.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/11/2020 8:34 Comments || Top||


Judicial Watch Sues North Carolina for 1M Inactive Voters on Voting Rolls
[BREITBART] Judicial Watch, a watchdog organization, has filed a lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its counties for having nearly one million inactive voters on their voting rolls.

On Thursday, Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit against North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, and Guildford County, alleging that state election officials have failed to clean voter rolls in violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

North Carolina, according to its own state data, has nearly one million inactive registered voters on its voter rolls. Likewise, Judicial Watch alleges that Mecklenburg County and Guilford County each have more registered voters on their rolls than the total number of eligible voters in the regions.

For example, Judicial Watch analysis finds that Mecklenburg County has a voter registration rate of 107 percent, while Guilford County has a voter registration rate of 102 percent. In Mecklenburg County, Judicial Watch alleges there are about 115,000 inactive voters on the voter rolls, and in Guilford County there are about 72,000 inactive voters.

According to Judicial Watch, about 17 percent of North Carolina’s voter registrations are inactive as of 2019 ‐ making it the fifth-highest state in the country for inactive registered voters. The average state has an inactive registered voter rate of about 9.6 percent.

In about 19 North Carolina counties, Judicial Watch alleges, there are 20 percent or more inactive voter registrations that remain on the voter rolls. Three counties have an inactive voter registration rate of 25 percent or more.

Specifically, about 15.5 percent of Mecklenburg County’s voter registrations are inactive, while 18 percent of Guilford County’s voter registrations are inactive.

The court brief comes as left-wing organizations, funded by billionaire George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
, are spearheading a nationwide effort to hold mail-in state primaries and nationwide mail-in voting for the 2020 presidential election.

Election expert Eric Eggers, research director of the Government Accountability Insititute, has said such a plan would potentially send mail-in ballots to an estimated 24 million ineligible voters ‐ including two million dead voters and nearly three million voters who are registered to vote in more than one state.

Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  THANK GOD, or at least JW.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/11/2020 0:53 Comments || Top||


Maxine Waters: Trump Can Not Wipe Away the History of His Pandemic Failure
[BREITBART] Thursday on MSNBC, "All In," Rep. The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters
...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.35983 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.35777 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
(D-CA) said President Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
could not wipe away the history of his administration’s response to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.

Hayes said, "You’ve served in Congress for a long time. You’ve seen different congressional caucuses come and go, different leadership structures, different presidents. Does it strike you, I’m curious how it strikes you to watch Republicans who, during the B.O. regime, particularly everything was austerity, where is the money coming from? How are you going to pay for that? Today say hey, we got to load up $250 billion, let’s have a vote on it today. A striking turn about it seems to me."
Posted by: Fred || 04/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trying to keep up with AOC.

Good luck!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/11/2020 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  The meaningless mumblings of a moron.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/11/2020 5:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Was thinking about her (yeah, I know) just the other day as she's been rather quiet lately. Well, once again, she did not disappoint.

It's a pity we cannot wipe away her years in Congress.
Posted by: Clem || 04/11/2020 7:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Ankle-biting failure Maxine Waters says Trump can not wipe away....snore, Zzzzz...sweet sleep, an immunization and escape from such blathering idiots. What an insult to the people of California and the U.S.A.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/11/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Funny how she keeps getting reelected.
Posted by: Clem || 04/11/2020 7:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Actually, lets not be too optimistic - lets remember that happened to Winston Churchill after WWII was won.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Churchill's fate was sealed by the left. He was far too anti-Muslim and pro white South African.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/11/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#8  The media and the left will be spinning this tail until the end of time.

People normally don't pay attention until July of an election year. Unfortunately for the left and the media, they are now as they have nothing else to do. This virus has moved so quickly, the lies the left told haven't had time to fade from memory before a new and contradictory one is spewed forth.

The public is seeing it, and taking note. Trust in media is all but gone now and Trump has the highest approval rates ever.

November is a long way away, but I doubt this will go well for the demoncrats at that time now that the public has been paying attention.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/11/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Fiddlesticks Besoeker. Churchill's fate was sealed by the fact that he reminded British People of the hard times they wished to forget.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2020 9:07 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ Perhaps you forgot the sark tag. I've had a number of exchanges with Brits of that period. Sadly, most are gone now. Nearly to a man and woman, their wartime hardships were worn like a badge of honor, a virtual Victoria Cross as it were. Matters of time and date were routinely prefaced by..... "well, that was before the War" or "oh yes, that came after the War"

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/11/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#11  1945 United Kingdom general election
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#12  Interesting since wartime rationing continued for many years afterward. Can't forget that which still hounds you daily.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/11/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||

#13  ^Voter intentions ==X==> actual outcomes, P2k.
Scratch your memory and remember why whites voted of Obama.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#14  ^"of" ---> "for".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/11/2020 9:45 Comments || Top||

#15  BABBLING more STUPIDITY ms wig-hat?
Posted by: ranture || 04/11/2020 14:50 Comments || Top||

#16  The dead are not cold and she plays politics with their bodies. May she rot in hell.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/11/2020 20:58 Comments || Top||



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