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NC Republican who vacationed at Hitler's retreat wins congressional race
[JPost] - Madison Cawthorn, the 25-year-old Republican in western North Carolina who posted selfies from a vacation at Hitler’s retreat in Germany, is headed to Congress.

...During that vacation, Cawthorn posted on Instagram that visiting Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat was on his "bucket list." In captions, he called Hitler "Fuhrer," a term of reverence, and said the experience "did not disappoint."
The reason 70% American Jews vote Democrat is ... (and yes, I know that he's an exception - not the rule. And black activists are a lot more dangerous to Jews). Nevertheless ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/05/2020 03:06 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To add some context: it's been a popular restaurant with an excellent view for years now. I wanted to go when I was in Bavaria, but couldn't get up there for various reasons - though the place isn't "Hitler themed" from what I understand.

So maybe cut the kid some slack? The young are often stupid and callous, but generally don't stay that way.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/05/2020 18:24 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Exactly. The kid is 25 years old. So effing what? But it does appear (if I believe the article (despite the misleading headline) the kid has some issues.

The headline is misleading. As far as I know, one does not "vacation" at the Eagle's Nest (as in, spend some nights there as if it were a hotel). One can eat there, but that's it.
Posted by: Clem || 11/05/2020 18:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Republican racist street-battler,
His beer hall the bar at the Statler,
He clings to his money,
Guns, Hakenkreuz, Honey.
Pink rattler to soft-handed prattler,
Beware der American Adler!
Posted by: Glack Spawn of the Veps9432 || 11/05/2020 20:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Okay, read article. Cawthorn may or may not like sniffing lederhosen, but the author's definitely a liar.
Posted by: Glack Spawn of the Veps9432 || 11/05/2020 20:13 Comments || Top||

#5  These guys vacationed there. I don't see any problem with getting a pic there as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/05/2020 20:53 Comments || Top||

#6  I know an old geezer who keeps running for President who honeymooned in the Soviet Union.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/05/2020 21:01 Comments || Top||

#7  BFD
Posted by: Grampaw Clunk7037 || 11/05/2020 23:30 Comments || Top||


Ted Wheeler has won re-election for a 2nd term
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
“Vote for the Menshevik — it’s important!”
Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: 3dc || 11/05/2020 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, it's only fair to give him a chance of finishing the job --- obliterating Portland.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/05/2020 3:13 Comments || Top||

#3  The people of Portland have (allegedly) spoken. Let the city burn to the ground for all I care. Just pathetic.
Posted by: Clem || 11/05/2020 18:53 Comments || Top||


Portland mayor: Protests to dwindle with Biden presidency
[PAMPLINMEDIA]
Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Only if it gets too cold.
Posted by: gorb || 11/05/2020 3:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe not, Teddie boy. From today's 'Burg (Page 1, "Symbolic End..." -

While chanting, “Black lives matter,” antifa burn a US flag in front of the federal courthouse. In their speeches, they said they will continue fighting regardless of who wins because the real enemy is the US.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/05/2020 19:01 Comments || Top||

#3  It could get worse under a (a-hem) Biden presidency as Antifa, et al., are fearless now and might become even more emboldened.
Posted by: Clem || 11/05/2020 19:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Antifa, and BLM, their job done, once again get kicked to the curb until next time they are needed...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/05/2020 20:41 Comments || Top||

#5  winter in portland will at least make them cold and wet
Posted by: 746 || 11/05/2020 23:39 Comments || Top||


🗳️Trump's campaign: We are suing to stop Democrat election officials from hiding the ballot counting and processing from our Republican poll observers, whose only job is to make sure every valid ballot is counted, and counted once
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The reason Trump won in 2016 is because they didn't take him seriously.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/05/2020 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Welcome to living in a banana republic thanks to third world government in our cities
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 11/05/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Team Trump better get out there and make their case; for two days now the media has been making theirs, and there are probably people who didn't vote who are tuning in.

I'd throw out there, the Democrats have rigged their own presidential candidate elections twice now - especially Clinton - against Sanders, so why wouldn't they rig the national election?

The margin of victory was supposed to already been made; this late mad dash is sure to show mistake. Send loyal investigators in addition to typical investigators. Protect and applaud whistle blowers. "If you believe in a Biden agenda, do you want that building on lies and sand?"

Force the information out there so the big media has to at least acknowledge the evidence even if to attempt to bury it.

Keep the message simple, direct, stuff like, "You need more proof of ID to eat at a restaurant in Michigan then prove a vote there." It's the Cuban Method. It's is the Venezuelan Method. It's the Iranian Method. It's the Al Franken Method. Bring it out. The TV Media is already making their case that the only valid result is the one they report on; do you feel confident in Chris Wallace deciding the election for you?

Hold Fast. If this election gets stolen, there will never be another legitimate election again. Its the Big Boss Battle at the end of the game when every defeated Boss joins and must also be defeated.

I mentioned the other day that the Blues of my and previous generation went to bed Tuesday knowing loss, Wednesday those laments were met with "Just wait until the absentees start getting counted." Well, their signs are back out.

I'd even pass on making fun of the "In These Unprecedented Times." lead in. Shrugging your shoulders without contest is the absolute worse case scenario. You have two months, and these contested areas will do everything in their power to suppress gatherings, they will call you names anyways so be heard.

Question the Judas Priests; their power over you is only what you allow them. Row, and you may live. Abandon the oar, and we flounder.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/05/2020 21:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Thanks for that, KS. Beautifully put, and just what I need to hear... about ten times a day.
Posted by: Glack Spawn of the Veps9432 || 11/05/2020 21:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Thank you V9432.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/05/2020 22:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Another line of attack: logic and math. There is no way on God's green earth that such results as 89% turnout etc can be achieved through honest means. It's statistically impossible.
Posted by: Bertie Speaking for Boskone2816 || 11/05/2020 23:27 Comments || Top||


Footage of burning of 80 Trump ballot papers
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Bill de Blasio admits he has no real plan to turn NYC around
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
confessed his utter incompetence this week in interviews with local media, admitting he has no plan to deal with the city’s mounting fiscal nightmare, surging violent mostly peaceful crime or anything else — except to hope for a safe vaccine and a bottomless federal bailout.

When NY1’s Errol Louis asked what he planned to do about murders (up 37 percent) and shootings (up 94 percent), the mayor simply recited his usual litany of excuses: "global pandemic," "perfect storm of negative factors," yadda yadda. But if Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
wins, "we get a major stimulus," and "that’s going to turn things around."

Huh? How will a bailout reverse the crime spike? He’s surely not going to reverse his NYPD cuts. Nor does a one-time bailout do a thing about the existential challenge to the city’s business model: Even with a vaccine, lots of folks no longer see New York as safe. A real mayor would start dealing with such problems on his own.

Louis seemed stunned: "Surely you’re not saying to the people of New York, ’Hey, murders ... and shootings are all going to get worse for the next year’?"

"No," replied de Blasio — before affirming just that: "I think you’re going to see by the summer ... a very, very different reality in the city, if Joe Biden is elected."

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, meanwhile, flagged de Blasio’s fiscal fecklessness. The mayor, he noted in a new report, wants to borrow as much as $5 billion to pay the daily bills, "a practice that helped lead to the 1970s fiscal crisis."

The city’s projection of a "sharp rebound in revenue" also looks quite rosy, he warned, saying Blas needs a real plan before borrowing and putting the city’s future at risk.

Silly DiNapoli. Doesn’t he know Biden will solve all of New York’s problems? ... Next year? ... Maybe? ... We hope?

Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just the opposite, in fact.
Posted by: Grunter || 11/05/2020 1:58 Comments || Top||

#2  ...except to hope for a safe vaccine and a bottomless federal bailout.

Hope Comrade Bill ain't seriously banking on that last one. Won't matter - they're bent, rather badly.
Posted by: Raj || 11/05/2020 18:21 Comments || Top||

#3  He has sucked all the life blood out of the city. Now time to leave the carcass to the vultures.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/05/2020 21:26 Comments || Top||


Federal Reserve staffers boost political giving to Democrats' benefit
[NYPOST] Federal Reserve staffers more than doubled their political donations during the 2020 election season, with most of their money going to Democrats.

Employees of the central bank gave more than $1.1 million to political candidates and causes from the beginning of last year through Oct. 22, according to campaign-finance figures compiled by OpenSecrets.org.

More than $863,000 of that went to Democratic campaigns, up from about $420,000 in the 2018 campaign, while donations to Republicans fell to just $33,280 from $45,788 in the last cycle, the data show.

Total contributions from Fed workers more than doubled from $475,730 in the 2018 midterm election and surged roughly fivefold from just $213,503 in the 2016 presidential cycle, according to OpenSecrets, which is run by the Center for Responsive Politics. Those totals include some donations that aren’t broken down by political party, such as contributions to independent expenditures.

This cycle’s money has come from the Fed’s more than 22,000 rank-and-file employees rather than any of the top bank officials responsible for setting the nation’s monetary policy, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the giving surge Tuesday.

While Chairman Jerome Powell and other Fed bosses have made political contributions in the past, the only policymaker to have given money to a campaign while in office was governor Lael Brainard, who sparked a controversy when she donated to Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
’s 2016 campaign, the paper reported.

The New York Fed, the largest of the bank’s 12 regional branches, accounted for about 10 percent, or $125,079, of this cycle’s donations, with $112,640 of that going to Democrats, OpenSecrets’ data show.
Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Antrim County Clerk's Office to review ballots following report of 'skewed results'
[UPNORTHLIVE] ANTRIM COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Antrim County Clerk’s Office has been reviewing their Election Day results after County Clerk Sheryl Guy said she became aware of "apparently skewed results."Guy said staff is currently working with township officials and with Election Source, the company that provides the voting software programs and hardware, to search out any possible discrepancies.

"By this afternoon, we expect to have a clear answer and a clear plan of action addressing any issue," Guy said, "Until then we are asking all interested parties to bear with us while we get to the bottom of this."

Guy said further information will be released as it becomes available throughout the day.

Michigan Republican Party Chairman Laura Cox released the following statement following the news from Antrim County:

"The irregularities reported this morning are incredibly troubling, especially given how close the election results are in Michigan," Cox said. "At this point, it is unclear whether or not these issues were caused by incompetence or corruption, but the fact that they exist is of great concern, and the Michigan Republican Party will spare no expense to expose the truth of what happened in yesterday’s election."



Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Michigan Found Over 100,000 Ballots and Every Single One Has Joe Biden's Name on It
[REDSTATE] Michigan was set to be a state that went to Trump but miraculously, a bunch of early votes was found and every one of them was a ballot with Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN Ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island...
’s name on it.

When I say "every one of them" I mean every single one. Not one of these ballots had a Trump vote on them.

This kind of thing is far from normal and is worth investigating. Twitter users also found this to be so unlikely as to be completely unbelievable.

Trump also weighed in, saying he smells something odd as well.

Saying that this is an impossible thing wouldn’t be right as statistically, the early vote combined with mail-in voting was always heavily Democrat-leaning. The catch here is that it’s definitely not probable. The idea that not one of them is a Trump vote seems a little off.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
what should really make people suspicious is the fact that not one of these votes leans toward a third-party vote. While people voting for Trump definitely wanted their votes counted by showing up in person, third-party voters didn’t particularly follow the same idea as some of these were leftists as well. Not one vote for the Green Party candidate? Not one for Jo Jorgenson of the Libertarian Party?

It all seems rather suspect that every single one, without fail, went to Joe Biden.

This has all the earmarks of being fraudulent and worth investigating. It’s highly unlikely that every single mail-in vote that was suddenly found would be for Biden and that this appears to me as if Democrats are fraudulently attempting to play their hand to the point of overplaying it
Posted by: Fred || 11/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any comments from Joe?
Posted by: gorb || 11/05/2020 3:35 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Don't you mean Kamala?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/05/2020 3:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Largest campaign war chest in history funds notional presidential campaign. If you've already funded the fix, you might as well stay in the basement and snooze.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2020 3:54 Comments || Top||

#4  If you've already funded the fix, you might as well stay in the basement and snooze.

Yeah, what's the point of having minions if you don't let them do their job?

A whole lot of shaky business in Michigan. Expect recounts and court challenges. This ain't over.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/05/2020 18:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Seems legit!
Posted by: Raj || 11/05/2020 18:23 Comments || Top||

#6  At 100k there should be at least a spattering of Mickey Mouse or Deez Nutz, or a Bernie Sanders, or left blank.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/05/2020 18:55 Comments || Top||

#7  The left now taking days to skew the election for slow Joe is now the worst sh!t show in the history of mankind.
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/05/2020 19:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Welcome to Caracas.

[only they disarmed the people first]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/05/2020 20:56 Comments || Top||

#9  “Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.” — Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (1896-1956), Guardian (London), 17 June 1977.

And now Joe Biden, 2020
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 11/05/2020 21:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Felons given the right to vote in Florida failed for the Democrats.

NOTHING the Dims were doing was working by the end of election day so now days later nothing they are doing makes sense either. Lock them up.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/05/2020 21:22 Comments || Top||

#11  “Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.” — Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (1896-1956), Guardian (London), 17 June 1977.

And now Joe Biden, 2020
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 11/05/2020 21:25 Comments || Top||

#12  Speaking of fish: Milwaukee turnout is claimed, by Wisconsin Democratic officials, to have been 89%.

Typical turnout for the last half century in Wisconsin is around 61-62% (Milwaukee fell to 56% turnout in 2016 after spiking to 65% for Obama's re-election run in 2012.)

One standard deviation for this population of events is ca. 4-5%. So the Democrats are claiming that their deep-blue city achieved a result - naturally, without intervention manipulation or other chicanery - that they got a turnout result that is OVER FIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS from the mean.

So the statistical probability of this "89% turnout" occurring naturally is 3 x 10 to the minus 7th

= 1 in 3.5 million

And the probability of fraud by Milwaukee & Wisconsin Democrats is 99.9999997

Caracas indeed
Posted by: Chunky Pelosi4692 || 11/05/2020 22:25 Comments || Top||

#13  My guess is those were their stash of Biden votes to swing the election and some fool threw the whole lot in not knowing what it was to be used only as needed and the rest tossed or mixed in with the walk-ins. Now that people are watching, they have to use them because they can't count on throwing them out with the trash.
Posted by: gorb || 11/05/2020 23:25 Comments || Top||



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