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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Hunter Biden Email Names Kamala Harris, Others as Key Contacts for 'Joint Venture' With China Energy Co.
A reminder from October.
[PJ] The emails purported to be Hunter Biden’s on that abandoned laptop have been verified by one recipient. They’re real and they’re spectacularly damning, according to Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden.

Another email begs for answers from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris. Fox News reports:
A list of "key domestic contacts" for a joint venture involving Jim and Hunter Biden and now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co. included former Vice President Joe Biden’s current running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, among other prominent Democrats, Fox News has learned.

An email exclusively obtained by Fox News, with the subject line "Phase one domestic contacts/ projects" and dated May 15, 2017, Biden’s brother, Jim Biden, shared a list of "key domestic contacts for phase one target projects."

The email is unrelated to the laptop or hard drive purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son.

Jim Biden is the Democratic nominee’s brother.

It’s a shame the media won’t stir itself to cover this. Or, when they do, they’ll spin it faster than a NutriBullet.

Because it looks for all the world like the whole Biden family trades on Joe’s long and mediocre career in politics, with Hunter as the tip of the lucrative spear.

And they don’t care at all about who they trade with, including the communist oligarchy that rules China.

Here is the actual email. Mr. Bobulinski is one of the cc’d recipients, along with Hunter Biden and two others.

The Biden camp has not responded to it in any way. Joe himself remains under his self-imposed lid until after tonight’s final presidential debate, which will be moderated by a journalist with longstanding Democratic ties. Harris has yet to hold any sort of press event. The malevolent media have not clamored for one.

Sen. Harris is specifically named in the email, along with several other prominent Democrats and one Republican.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 03:23 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We now know why media coverage of Hunter's bad habits vanished vanished just prior to the election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 3:30 Comments || Top||

#2  So the Big Guy, Jimbo and Crackhead were in bed with CEFC. That's the front company for the CCP and its influences buying campaign around the world - buying influence in the world's most corrupt countries including Kazakhstan, and busting the US and EU sanctions on Russia's and Putin's main oil company, Rosneft:

The United States and the European Union have imposed sanctions on Russia over its annexation of the Crimea region from Ukraine: Rosneft, whose CEO is seen as a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is the only company sanctioned by both.

And the Biden's CEFC partner is literally their partner in crime - Patrick Ho was convicted on corruption charges in New York barely 18 months after the Bidens' loot-sharing "10% for the Big Guy" email.

Specifically, the Bidens' Chinese partner was bribing and laundering money for politicians all over Africa:

Patrick Ho now stands convicted of scheming to pay millions in bribes to foreign leaders in Chad and Uganda, all as part of his efforts to corruptly secure unfair business advantages for a multi-billion-dollar Chinese energy company. Ho’s repeated attempts to corrupt foreign leaders were not business as usual, but criminal efforts to undermine the fairness of international markets,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said to CNN.

Though Ho pleaded not guilty, the jury found enough evidence to convict him. Since he was deemed guilty on seven out of eight charges and each charge comes with imprisonment of 5 to 20 years, Ho could end up in jail for a long time. Ho will be sentenced on March 15, 2019.

This just so happens to be part and parcel of the CCP's drive to dominate and subvert governments from Australia and the Philippines to Africa to the Middle East, and Latin America .

And now, to dominate Biden's USA. Belt and Road needs a new name: should now be called Beltway and Road to the White House



Posted by: Thor Gromock7077 || 12/09/2020 4:21 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ The first of Biden's many Ho's to be convicted I hope.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/09/2020 4:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Re money-laundering, funny that Hunter received a $3.5 million wire transfer from the bandit billionaire ex-wife of Moscow Mayor and onetime presidential aspirant Yuri Luzhkov. This was flagged of course by the Treasury Department, which is now investigating the Big Guy's Bagboy for money laundering.

Our new would-be president has a resume worthy of an African president:

- Money laundering
- Violating the sanctions on Russia
- Selling political influence in cahoots with a CCP front organization
- Helping the Chinese military buy into US companies
- Most likely using Chinese majority-owned election tech company to fiddle with and steal an election

Forget Venezuela.

The Biden Family model for the US is Uganda
Posted by: Angavigum Glomp3852 || 12/09/2020 4:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Feinstein's driver/office liaison for 15 years (I tried to find the Chinese aho name with Google so he could be shamed).
From Axios, Eric Swalwell who trumpeted the Russia collusion story against Trump received major contributions from Chinese Fang Fang, who also offered sexual favors to several as well as being a major bundler.
China has major influence over Silicon Valley (Google).
Hollywood caves to Chinese pay to play in China.
NBA etc.
The Chinese ports in Long Beach, LA and SF.
The Chinese probably owns a significant minority of California.
Posted by: boomerc || 12/09/2020 4:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Plus Harvard. The head of Harvard's Chemistry Department just pled guilty to selling advanced research secrets to the Chinese.

Wall Street, Harvard and huge swathes of academia, trillion dollar Tech giants, our biggest retailers, 95% of our active pharmaceutical ingredient production, and the soon to be US President and his family. And a compliant US media.

All of them: China's bitches.

People predicting another civil war have it wrong. It's going to be a war of Americans vs China and its US-based proxies and fifth columnists.
Posted by: Ulusosh Slaiger2679 || 12/09/2020 5:05 Comments || Top||

#7  But wait! There's more!

So Robert Crack-Hunter Biden's laptop reveals that Air Force Two's most entrepreneurial passenger also gas his own pr0n-streaming channel under the name of "Robert Hunter" i.e. Hunter's first and Middle given names.

What are the odds that this maniac's laptop was NOT compromised by Chinese military intelligence? How do you say, slim and none in mandarin?

So the assholes who spent four years putting our preposterous bullshit -- fabricated nonsense pulled out of their asses --alleging that Biden's opponent is a Russian spy are telling us to ignore the very real, actual evidence that Biden and his family are saps for their business partners in the Chinese intelligence services.

Manchurian Candidate shit just got real.

Posted by: Vortigern Schwarzeneggar6963 || 12/09/2020 5:17 Comments || Top||

#8  What's this FOX NEWS having Screwed the Pooch and tanking in its Viewer rating for supporting Biden.

....Suddenly has a NEWS FLASH against Biden?

FOXNEWS - You have a lot of soul searching and amends to make BEFORE America ever trusts you again.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/09/2020 7:07 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ article's from Oct. 22
Posted by: Glerese Scourge of the Heathen Rus8335 || 12/09/2020 7:18 Comments || Top||

#10  Read about this some time ago. Harris was the CCP's pick for VP because they have 'insurance' on her and thereby control.

It never mattered if she was a bad candidate early on in the primaries, the fix for both her and Joe was in.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/09/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#11  article's from Oct. 22

Good catch, Glerese Scourge of the Heathen Rus8335. Note added to the article, with our thanks,
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||

#12  China. Chinese collusion. Chinagate. Special counsel. Start the impeachment proceedings for those government officials colluding with China. If there is nothing there, make it up.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/09/2020 16:22 Comments || Top||

#13  How do you say, slim and none in mandarin?

苗条又没有
Posted by: Spailet Wittlesbach2042 || 12/09/2020 16:26 Comments || Top||

#14  Suppose they'll find Lit'l Miss Fang in there too?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/09/2020 16:59 Comments || Top||

#15  Senate Finance Committee and Homeland Security Committee now investigating. From their report:

"Hunter Biden and Devon Archer engaged in numerous financial transactions with Chinese nationals who had deep connections to the Communist Chinese government.

"These Chinese nationals included Ye Jianming, founder of CEFC China Energy Co. Ltd (CEFC) and chairman of the board for its subsidiary, the China Energy Fund Committee (CE Fund). They also included Gongwen Dong, who was Ye Jianming’s associate and reportedly executed transactions for his companies.

"Ye’s connections to the Communist government are extensive and, as explained below, he has been previous affiliations with the People’s Liberation Army. Based on the information received by the Committees, Ye was also financially connected to Vice President Biden’s brother, James Biden. Thus, there exists a vast web of corporate connections and financial transactions between and among the Biden family and Chinese nationals," the report states.

"Hunter Biden has extensive connections to Chinese businesses and Chinese foreign nationals that are linked to the Communist government. Those contacts bore financial fruit when his father was vice president and after he left office."
Posted by: Spike Slolusing4563 || 12/09/2020 19:14 Comments || Top||

#16  And Barr issues statement thanking democrats for another reason he sucks di@&.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/09/2020 19:22 Comments || Top||

#17  "The list, included Harris, D-Calif.; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; former Virginia Gov. Terry McCauliffe...."

I mean, geeeezus x-mas, just look at those names. The scum bucket is absolutely overflowing.
Posted by: Clem || 12/09/2020 21:20 Comments || Top||

#18  I'll thank you to watch your filthy mouth, Dron! Sez metrolyrics, quote:

Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language:

Ho, ho, ho!
Who wouldn't go!
Ho, ho, ho!
Who wouldn't go!
Up on the housetop,
Click, click, click,
Down thru' the chimney
With good Saint Nick.
Posted by: Zenobia whatever || 12/09/2020 22:38 Comments || Top||

#19  From Anchorage down to the Isthmus
No creature was torpid or listless,
For every trans-human
Was busy consumin',
And never was war waged on Christmas.
Posted by: Zenobia whatever || 12/09/2020 22:45 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Flynn Flam: Sullivan Valiantly Hanging On In His Fight To Remain Moot For Some Reason; Breaking: Dismissed
Hattip Deacon Blues.
[HotAir] Presidential pardons usually resolve all outstanding legal consequences — or at least they do everywhere except in Judge Emmet Sullivan’s courtroom. Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
’s pardon of Michael Flynn should have mooted the case currently dragging itself through Sullivan’s courtroom, especially because the pardon specifically applied to the case at hand. For some reason, Jerry Dunleavy reported late last night, Sullivan has extended his review of the case to include Trump’s pardon — even though no one of standing in the case has challenged it:
Details can be read at the link, interesting but no longer important after the 2:05 pm update, below:
It’s very clear that Sullivan wants to drag this out as long as possible, even though prosecutors have petitioned to drop the case and now Flynn has received a full pardon. There is no other reason for this than to exact some personal vendetta on Flynn, an animus which has been clear for a long time. He’s forcing both Flynn and the DoJ to waste money and time on a case that is now entirely moot. Maybe Sullivan just doesn’t want to be the only person to lose to Sidney Powell in 2020, but his judgment has clearly become entirely warped, and the abuse of his authority should embarrass the other justices on the DC Circuit.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Flynn plead guilty, after the FBI overruled the FBI investigators who thought he didn't lie, and his original legal counsel wanted him to fight it.

Then he was coerced to lie about his original not-really-a-lie lie. So that's where "lied twice" comes from? No wonder I'm confused.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/09/2020 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  The judge also said he was troubled by the government’s "dubious" rationales as well as aspects of its "ever-evolving justifications" that ignored applicable law, appeared to be irrelevant or to contradict prosecutors’ previous statements.

The government did not have a case. There was never any Russian collusion by the Trump team. Trump and team were spied on by the Obama government. All the evidence was fabricated. HRC financed the goondoggle. The Mueller gang was a disgrace to the legal profession. It was prudent for Barr to drop the entire mess as there was never any case. It was a witch hunt and kangaroo court to get Trump from the gitgo.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/09/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Swalwell, California politicians targeted by Chinese spy: report
[TheHill] A woman suspected of being a Chinese intelligence operative allegedly targeted several local and national politicians in the first half of the last decade, including Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), according to a report from Axios.

The woman, Fang Fang or Christine Fang, reportedly specifically attempted to curry influence with Bay Area politicians from 2011 to 2015, including participating in fundraising for Swalwell’s 2014 reelection campaign, according to the publication.

She is not believed to have obtained any classified information, but "there were some really, really sensitive people that were caught up," a senior U.S. intelligence official told Axios. Foreign nationals are barred from donating to campaigns and Federal Election Commission records show no indication she donated to Swalwell.

A spokesperson for Swalwell said the California congressman had already cooperated with federal investigations into Fang.

"Rep. Swalwell, long ago, provided information about this person — whom he met more than eight years ago, and whom he hasn’t seen in nearly six years — to the FBI," Swalwell’s office said in a statement to Axios. "To protect information that might be classified, he will not participate in your story."

Swalwell reportedly received a defensive briefing from the FBI as they accelerated their investigation into Fang. He reportedly immediately cut ties to her and is not accused of any wrongdoing in connection with her alleged activities, a current U.S. intelligence official told Axios.

Fang, who reportedly helped place at least one intern in Swalwell’s office, is believed to have overseen subagents through such efforts, many of whom did not realize they were part of the operation. She left the country in 2015 amid the investigation.

She also reportedly attempted similar influence operations on other Bay Area politicians, volunteering for Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D) failed 2014 campaign.

Khanna’s office has said he did not receive an FBI briefing like Swalwell’s and that her name does not appear in records of the 2014 campaign staff. Fang has been photographed with several California politicians, including Swalwell, Khanna, then-Rep. Mike Honda (D) and Rep. Judy Chu (D).

Over a three-year period, two officials told Axios she also had romantic relationships with at least two Midwestern mayors. At least two sexual interactions between Fang and elected officials were allegedly recorded during FBI surveillance, according to Axios.
Posted by: Beavis || 12/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Fang Fang, meet Fart Fart.
"How do you fang?"
"How do you fart?"

Q: How much graft could a Swalwell swill if the Congress-fart had congress with a chink tart's pink?

A: A Swalwell will swill, what a windy swindler will swindle, if Sino Fang-Fang make sign o' bang-bang with swank skank pink chink.

Ho Ho Ho [Chi Minh & Kamal-Ho]!!
Melly Chlissmas!!
Posted by: Kofi Splat6905 || 12/09/2020 4:50 Comments || Top||

#2  To be fair, given the pictures of her, she could have had me, too.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/09/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Fang Fang? More like Bang Bang.

I always wondered how so many really disgusting seamy politicians got elected? Who in their right mind would vote for these people?

With each daily election-rigging news about our recent election, it becomes clear that many of these people weren't elected.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/09/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Four year relationship means she was successful in getting info from Swalwell. Spys don't stick around if they are not productive.
I didn't know much about Swalwell, thought he was gay, turns out I was wrong.
Posted by: Waldemar Pelosi4537 || 12/09/2020 13:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe he is.

"I can't tell you about my Hot Asian Girlfriend. It's all classified."
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/09/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#6  "Targeted"

I guess to be fair, when he said he would nuke Americans, he meant with Chinese nukes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/09/2020 16:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Four years makes him a significant source for her, and a dweeb like that had to know he was getting her attention for something other than himself. I want to know how this stayed in the shadows until now? Are there any honest people left with in journalism? Chicom penetration every where you look it seems.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/09/2020 16:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Swalwell is on the House Intelligence Committe, privy to this nation's highest secrets. A ripe, dumb target.

Committee assignments

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Subcommittee on Intelligence Modernization and Readiness (Chair)
Subcommittee on Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research
Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property
Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/09/2020 16:50 Comments || Top||

#9  I am sure he gave her access to his laptop info to impress her along the way.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/09/2020 18:00 Comments || Top||

#10  "...she could have had me, too."

There's a reason we mention Honey Pots in our defensive CI briefings. It works and always will.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 12/09/2020 18:48 Comments || Top||

#11  If she is better looking that any girl you have ever been with and she is all over you, then you know shew wants something. Swalwell was an easy target. Now the question is how much was compromised. As much as I dislike this fraud, he is a victim here. Lets see how he handles it. The Chinese can get to just about anyone if they try, he was low hanging fruit...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/09/2020 19:14 Comments || Top||

#12  Guys know their relative appeal. When she's way hotter than you deserve, watch your wallet/integrity/ or the cutle
Posted by: Frank G || 12/09/2020 19:21 Comments || Top||

#13  cutlery
Posted by: Frank G || 12/09/2020 19:39 Comments || Top||

#14  Mehh... she's a Michelle Yeoh knockoff.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/09/2020 21:04 Comments || Top||

#15  Ohh finally, consequences for a Democrat. Some news are reporting that Former Presidential candidate Eric Swalwell removed from House Intelligence Committee.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/09/2020 22:09 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ hope. at last
Posted by: Pheating Whinemble8269 || 12/09/2020 22:22 Comments || Top||

#17  Apparently successfully, seems like they got to Barr and Durham as well.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/09/2020 22:37 Comments || Top||

#18  In Kowloon by the light of the moon,
A new woman wooed, none too soon!
She was out of his league,
But he'd yarbles like Queeg,
And he had her at "Yoo-hoo, Ms. Poon?"
Posted by: Zenobia whatever || 12/09/2020 23:53 Comments || Top||

#19  Color me prim and constipated as usual... guess that really oughta be "screwed."
Posted by: Zenobia whatever || 12/09/2020 23:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Election Outcomes Unclear Amid Legal Challenges
Epoch Times’ collection of articles on the election. They show exactly how Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona are still being contested.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/09/2020 10:23 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good summary of the status of the battleground states up to this point.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/09/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Thanks John.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||


Supreme Court Issues Thursday Deadline For PA to Respond to Texas Lawsuit
[Conservative Brief] The state of Texas is getting things done.

Earlier this week, Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia.

That lawsuit asked the Supreme Court to order state legislatures in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania to displace "tainted" election results in those States and choose their own slate of electors.

In other words, Paxton is asking that Republican state legislatures in those four states — which have been called for Joe Biden — be allowed to choose their own slate of electors, presumably to hand the election to President Donald Trump in January.

Late on Tuesday evening, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the four states to respond to the lawsuit from Paxton by Thursday, December 10.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 10:23 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


More Votes 'Found in a Drawer' in NY-22 Race
[RS] NY-22 is a U.S. House race in New York that is currently in dispute. The Republican challenger leads the Democrat incumbent by an unofficial count of just 12 votes. Meanwhile, a judge is waiting to rule on other disputed ballots. That includes 55 ballots ’found’ that were revealed a week ago. Of those, 11 were cast by unregistered voters and will presumably be tossed.

Those 55 ballots were described as "early votes" so they could break for the Democrat given typical early voting trends. But as I shared in my last write-up on it, we just don’t know because the sample size is so small. They could conceivably break for the Republican.

Regardless, there is some new information to be shared on the NY-22 race, and I’ve gotten myself in a bit of trouble trying to cover this race in the past so I’m going to be very careful what I say here. This is what Fox News is reporting now about 12 more votes being found.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 08:30 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:



Ossoff's Father Met With Chinese ‘Dignitaries' While Touring His China-Built Yacht
[Free Beacon] Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff's millionaire father met with Chinese "dignitaries" while touring a 60-foot yacht he purchased from a China-based shipbuilder tied to Communist Party officials.

Richard Ossoff, who has bankrolled his son's upstart political career, commissioned China-based Jet-Tern Marine to build the custom vessel in 2008, U.S. Coast Guard records show. Before shipping the yacht to the United States, the company held a "sea trial" for "customers Heather and Richard Ossoff, of Atlanta, Georgia, USA," in order to test the million-dollar vessel's performance, with "many" Chinese dignitaries in attendance.

"The Selene 1519 sea trial was attended by the customers, many dignitaries from Pingsha and Zhuhai, the press, the Deputy Governor, the Bureau Chief, and the editor of China Boating magazine," a since-deleted press release stated. "At many times as many as 40-50 people were aboard but the large yacht never felt crowded."

The yacht boasted a state-of-the-art steering system, an "extensively modified inside" featuring a "quite open and bright" galley and salon area, a lazarette "laid out perfectly" for scuba equipment, and a utility room with a "spacious work area for Mr. Ossoff," according to the release. While it's unclear how much Ossoff's father paid for the yacht, a similar model is listed by Florida Yachts International for $1.3 million.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 07:58 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Just a little helping hand.

Money to Parties OSSOFF, RICHARD M
ATLANTA, GA 30345 Strafford Publications, Inc 07-23-2020 $10,000 Georgia Federal Elections Cmte (D)

Link
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||


With veto-proof majority, US House lawmakers approve Pentagon budget opposed by Trump
[IsraelTimes] House passes $750 billion bill, with only 40 of 196 Republicans opposed; president against measure’s call to rename bases honoring pro-slavery Confederates
That’s all very well, but where does the Senate stand? As I understand it, unless the Senate passes the same bill and also has a veto-proof majority, nothing the House passed matters.
The US House of Representatives approved the Pentagon budget bill Tuesday by an overwhelming majority, defying US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s threat to veto the measure.

The bill must now go to the Senate, where it is likely also to be approved,
...also with a veto-proof majority?
before it reaches the outgoing Republican leader.

The defense budget bill received 335 of 430 votes, far exceeding the two-thirds "super majority" needed to override a presidential veto.
That’s nice.
Only 40 out of 196 Republicans voted against the bill.
Which lawmakers, precisely?
It remains to be seen whether all Republicans will maintain their stance to counter a possible Trump veto.

After months of bipartisan negotiations, the 2021 budget is set at $740.5 billion and includes a three percent increase in defense personnel salaries.

In July, separate versions of the bill won more than two-thirds support in both chambers. The date for the Republican-controlled Senate has not been set yet.
Oh. Then the question of passing it is — at this point, at least — moot. Perhaps Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is waiting to see who won the presidential election.
Trump emphasized his opposition to the bill earlier Tuesday.

"I hope House Republicans will vote against the very weak National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which I will VETO," Trump, who leaves office January 20, tweeted using the formal name of the legislation.

Trump has several complaints about the bill.

It does not call, as he wants, for the abolition of a law known as Section 230, which grants social media firms protection from liability for third-party content carried on their platforms. Trump has railed against the law repeatedly and says giants like Facebook and Google are biased against him.

Trump is also displeased with the bill because it calls for renaming US military bases that honor Confederates from the pro-slavery South from the US Civil War.

The bill also goes against Trump’s drive to slash the US troop presence in Germany. It imposes on the Pentagon a deadline of at least 120 days before any reduction of forces in Germany, ensuring that no American withdrawal can take place before Democratic President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
takes office.

The bill states that a military withdrawal from Germany "during a time of growing threats in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
would constitute a grave strategic mistake that would undermine United States national security interests and weaken NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
Trump mentioned all these issues in his tweet Tuesday, as well as the topic of "5G."
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2020 04:11 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The House is united against the interests of Americans. What a surprise.
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 12/09/2020 16:03 Comments || Top||


Illinois Senator Dick Durbin Admits: Democrats Weaponized Wuhan Coronavirus Relief
[Townhall] More than 100,000 businesses across the country have permanently shut their doors as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Over the past nine months, Republicans and President Trump have repeatedly offered Democrats trillion dollar relief deals. They were all rejected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues in the Senate. We knew this was for political reasons, after all, to them power comes before anything else, but we now have additional proof that they were playing games in an election year.

"Was it a mistake for Pelosi and Schumer to turn down $1.8 trillion?" CNN's Jake Tapper asked.

"There was some exuberance involved because an election was coming, and they were both bidding one another and trying to find some common ground. They didn’t reach that point. But to return to those pre-election days and sentiments, political sentiments is very difficult," Durbin responded. "We are looking at the reality now of a new president coming on board."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 04:09 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ok, I get it "exitus acta probat" (end result justifies the method).
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 4:14 Comments || Top||

#2  On to the next crisis:

COVID-19 recovery is an opportunity to tackle worsening climate crisis: New report
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 4:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Hanoi Jane Fonda said it well: "COVID is G-d's gift to the Left"
Posted by: Jusolet Angese7356 || 12/09/2020 5:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Democrats weaponized the China Virus? I'm utterly shocked (sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/09/2020 12:52 Comments || Top||

#5  China weaponized Democrats against America.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/09/2020 22:16 Comments || Top||


Ga. governor again rejects special session to overturn election results
[NYP] ATLANTA — Georgia’s governor is again telling lawmakers that he won’t call a special session to overturn Georgia’s election results and appoint 16 presidential electors who would support Republican President Donald Trump instead of Democratic president-elect Joe Biden.

Republican Brian Kemp issued a joint statement Sunday with Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, saying it would violate state law for the General Assembly to name electors instead of following the current state law that calls for the governor to certify electors after results are certified.

"Any attempt by the legislature to retroactively change that process for the Nov. 3rd election would be unconstitutional and immediately enjoined by the courts, resulting in a long legal dispute and no short-term resolution," the two said in their statement.

Trump and Kemp spoke by phone hours before Trump held a rally on Saturday in Valdosta. The president asked Kemp to order the legislative session and the governor refused. According to a tweet from the governor, Trump also asked him to order an audit of absentee ballots from the presidential race in his state. Kemp has said he can’t do that because he has no authority to interfere in the electoral process on Trump’s behalf.

Trump on Sunday tweeted more unproven allegations that Georgia’s election was fraudulent, blaming Kemp and Duncan for inaction.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 03:51 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A bushel of dried Kudzu could defeat Brian Kemp in the next Georgia gubernatorial election. Bringing in an Illinois millionaire to fill a senate seat is one thing, election fraud is yet another. You can stick a fork in Kemp, he's done in Georgia.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 3:58 Comments || Top||

#2  The problem is with violations of federal law so the Georgia legislature has now been pulled into federal rules since it now has to deal with federal issues, not state issues. The Georgia governor has nothing to say about this.
Posted by: gorb || 12/09/2020 4:34 Comments || Top||

#3 

I agree Besoeker...
Those of us that spent 100's of hours to help him document the dirty & ILLEGAL tricks of the Stacy Abrams campaign, will not volunteer our IT help in 2022.

He kissed us off and we will do the same.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/09/2020 5:52 Comments || Top||

#4  All of this is assuming that election issues will be solved by then. Or ever.
Posted by: gorb || 12/09/2020 8:03 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ At that point Gorb, he'll be leaving one way or another.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/09/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/09/2020 16:29 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/09/2020 16:59 Comments || Top||


Barr reportedly considering resigning before Trump leaves office
[NYP] Attorney General William Barr is considering resigning before President Trump leaves office next month, according to multiple reports citing sources familiar with his thinking.

The two men had a "contentious," lengthy meeting inside the West Wing on Tuesday, a person familiar with the meeting told CNN.

The meeting came after Barr, 70, said in an interview with the Associated Press Tuesday that the Justice Department had not uncovered evidence of widespread election fraud — comments which angered the president.

"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election," Barr told The AP weeks after he authorized federal prosecutors to investigate alleged "voting irregularities" in the 2020 election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 03:44 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  BARR has FAILED to bring down 1 Upper echelon DC person. Despite a mountain of evidence pointing to dozens in the DC hierarchy illegal activities.

By Barr Resignation the Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen comes into play. Because it is clear the RINO Senate won't confirm a New AG that would actually enforce the US Code and defend the Civil Rights of 74+ Million Trump voters+.

Attorney General William Barr urged Trump to choose Rosen as his deputy.

So where does Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen stand on this Election Mess?

This much can be said..
He tends to want "more evidence" when $$$$ and Politicalpower are at play...before taking it to trial.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/09/2020 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Please let the door hit you on the way out.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/09/2020 14:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I just wish that slob would take his Deep State buddies with him.
Posted by: Clem || 12/09/2020 17:17 Comments || Top||

#4  a person familiar with the meeting told CNN.

What are the odds 1) that it happened at all, or 2) that it happened the way the anonymous person who heard about it from someone else says it happened?
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2020 17:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Barr is apparently a Chinese agent.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/09/2020 23:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Or, he's certainly not a US one.
Posted by: Clem || 12/09/2020 23:23 Comments || Top||

#7  he's a cia plant
Posted by: 746 || 12/09/2020 23:24 Comments || Top||

#8  The Donald doesn't seem to be the best judge of character in his appointments as prez.
Posted by: Clem || 12/09/2020 23:41 Comments || Top||


Louisiana Joins Texas In Motion Against GA, MI, PA, & WI After SCOTUS Denies Emergency Injunctive Relief In PA Case
[ZERO] Louisiana just joined Texas in the SCOTUS Motion against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on the grounds that various changes to their voting rules or procedures - either through the courts or via executive actions - violated the Electors Clause of the Constitution because they did not go through the legislatures:

Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following statement regarding the ongoing controversies over the 2020 federal election and the new motion put forward by the State of Texas before the U.S. Supreme Court:
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 02:56 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm not having a great deal of confidence that Scotus will protect our vote from widespread election fraud and corruption.

In fact, I have little confidence in our institutions to protect the Constitution and the Republic.

After four years of constant attacks on the Trump administration and after Obiden's previous 8 years of corrupting and weaponizing the government against the people of the U.S. leaves one with a dismal view of government; particularly since little has been done to prosecute anyone for vast malfeasance.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/09/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ In fact, I have little confidence in our institutions to protect the Constitution and the Republic.

I agree John. How can anyone gain confidence if their children cannot be protected ?

SCOTUS Rejects Appeal to Restrict Transgender Student Access to Locker Rooms and Bathrooms
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 9:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Surprised MN isn't named in the case. SOS Simon entered into a consent decree with some progressive bunch to massively increase the vote-by-mail output.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/09/2020 14:28 Comments || Top||

#4  17 states have now joined Texas this evening. Texas now has a posse.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/09/2020 18:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Can't wait till the Harris stuff on the laptop is disclosed. Kamala could be history.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 18:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Count Kansas, even though our governess is out shopping for another cat.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/09/2020 18:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Most rebelling states are South of the Mason Dixon line. Some irony here. Lets see how the second Southern uprising is handled. It reads eerily familiar. I hope SCOTUS remember the last time they allowed the South to be over ruled by the North in court...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/09/2020 19:19 Comments || Top||

#8  I visited two large gun shops today near Woodstock, GA. Inventories are way down. Ammo shelves empty.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2020 21:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Can't wait till the Harris stuff on the laptop is disclosed.

Hillary had a laptop, too.
Posted by: Clem || 12/09/2020 21:11 Comments || Top||


2060 Verified Dead Absentee Voters in Wayne County Michigan, how many more are there?
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Approximately 566,958 people voted absentee in Wayne County, where bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
is located, in the 2020 general election. 2060 appear to have been dead.

The Secretary of State published the data of who those specific people were, their home address, and their birthdate.

The Gateway Pundit took that data, and ran it through a simple "deceased suppression" service provided for a fee by the Lorton Data Services company.

The result was that 2,060 names came back as people who are recorded as having both been dead, and having submitted an absentee ballot.

There may be errors in the data. There could be people with the exact same name living at the same address who are erroneously included in the data. People could have died after mailing in their absentee ballot a week before election day. But according to the Lorton service, that situation should be very rare. The Lorton officials said that they cross-check their data with obituaries and the Social Security death index.

This does NOT INCLUDE, people who voted in-person, and does NOT INCLUDE, people who voted absentee in the rest of Michigan. It also suggests, if accurate, that there may have been a systemic campaign underway to cast ballots even among people who were deceased.

The data also suggests that Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson did very little to remove dead individuals from voter applications and from the Michigan voter file.
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are we including those votes that used someone's maiden name?
Posted by: gorb || 12/09/2020 2:48 Comments || Top||

#2  there are a lot of ways to fraudulently vote but having dead people do it is the best because no one can be prosecuted
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/09/2020 16:11 Comments || Top||

#3  And now a Michigan state legislator, a Wakandan Harper named Cynthia Johnson, is threatening violent retribution against the brave witnesses who testified about the Detroit Democrats' polling place bullshit.

From her video:

Cynthia Johnson: So this is just a warning to you Trumpers. Be careful. Walk lightly. We ain’t playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough. And to those of you who are soldiers, you know how to do it. Do it right. Be in order. Make them pay.
Posted by: Ebboter B. Hayes7560 || 12/09/2020 16:41 Comments || Top||


Gingrich: Republicans Have to 'Turn Out More Votes Than Stacey Abrams Can Steal'
[PJMEDIA] On Monday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
...former Speaker of the House, author of the Contract with America. Gingrich gave the country welfare reform and a balanced budget and the Publicans a landslide House victory in 1994. On the downside, he has a roving eye and a loose fly, he's opinionated, and he's abrasive despite his ability to work with the other side of the political aisle...
deflected Republican fears that it does not matter whether or not they vote because alleged Democratic ballot shenanigans will steal the Georgia Senate runoff elections, just as President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
claims Democrats stole the presidential election in Georgia. Gingrich said he thinks Democrats stole the election, but he urged Republicans to vote in such high numbers that Democrats cannot pull off the heist again."This election is going to come down to turnout. The objective fact is, I believe Trump probably did carry Georgia. I believe that the election process is a mess. I really wish the governor would call a special session to clean it up," Gingrich insisted. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
he argued that "the Republicans simply have to turn out more votes than Stacey Abrams
...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Now she wants to be somebody's vice president so she can sour grape about that too...
can steal."

Fox News hosts pressed Gingrich to explain how Abrams supposedly stole the election. The former speaker noted that there were 1.2 million unverified absentee ballots in the 2020 election, a mere 0.3 percent of the total, while in 2018, 3.5 percent of the absentee ballots were thrown out. "The difference is three times Biden’s margin," he noted.

"The agreement the secretary of State made with Stacey Abrams was crazy," Gingrich said. He mentioned the election-night surveillance video presented before the Georgia State Senate Judiciary Committee that allegedly showed at least four suitcases of ballots being pulled out from under a table after election supervisors had told party poll watchers to leave the room at the State Farm Arena in Fulton County, Georgia. Lead Stories claimed that the video only showed election workers counting ballots that had already been checked while party poll watchers were present, but the video has still caused an uproar.

"I have never seen an election that was this blatantly disorganized and this blatantly in favor of being stolen," Gingrich lamented.

He insisted that Republicans must turn out to vote.

"I think they will probably keep both seats Republican," the former speaker predicted. Yet he urged, "Every person who’s worried about the future of the country from a conservative standpoint has to go vote."

"That’s the number one challenge, it’s not the debates or the arguments, it’s getting people to vote in this runoff," Gingrich said. "The key to a Republican victory is to have more votes than the Left can steal."



Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Booth capturing, gentlemen. No, it's not ancient jewish counterstrike.

It was an illegal, thuggish way the stronger majority in Indian states reserved its right to be represented for a long time; until machines and biometric IDs came along. By which time, the population was also expected to have evolved sufficiently. No wisdom here, just trivia, about how thugs control their polities.

If you let them, the Dems will implement third world unfairness before you can say, 'impeach'. Already there is talk of persecuting Red voters. What is the Right prepared to do against thuggery is the question. It's beyond mere votes now.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/09/2020 4:17 Comments || Top||

#2  If ballots be lyin'
Bullets will soon be flyin'
Posted by: Thusolet Ulealing2443 || 12/09/2020 6:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Next up for 2022: digital voting via Twitter and Facebook. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Airandee || 12/09/2020 6:33 Comments || Top||


Seattle is about to go unthinkably left as liberal mayor announces she won't seek reelection
[FOXNEWS] Seattle’s first-term Mayor Jenny Summer of Love Durkan
...Democrat Maress of Seattle, who allowed a chunk of the downtown of her city to be turned into an autonomous combat zone...
announced on Monday that she won’t seek reelection. This almost ensures the unthinkable: Seattle will drift even further to the left.

The news didn’t come to me as a shock. I have been hearing rumors for the last couple weeks that Durkan was reconsidering reelection after being rendered powerless by a City Council that repeatedly stands in her way. After the last Council election, she was left with a majority of members who would never be her political allies.

At the same time, the mayor faced daily political pressure from the city’s most vocal and fringe activists, pressuring her to adopt their dangerous plans, including defunding the police.

She attempted to curry their favor, allowing the notorious "Summer of Love" to continue with the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).

We all know how that went. She hired a former pimp to offer her some ’street cred’ but the streets decidedly distrust the figurative version of "the man."

If Durkan had a council to support her, she could withstand activist pressure and lead the city. But the Council is with the activist community. And Durkan hasn’t been able to lead.

Suburban Seattle police report cases of people knocking on doors, claiming they’re rightful homeownersVideo
With the current mayor now on her way out, the city will become even more unbearably progressive.

Durkan was as close to a mainstream Democrat that could be elected by Seattle residents and still be popular enough to have a shot at reelection. But since she took office in 2016, the political environment witnessed a tectonic shift after the election of President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
Since then, progressive and socialist activists have become more urgent in their political fights. They saw a country turn away from their political beliefs, towards a man they loathed. Not only was Trump brash, but he was also the epitome of everything they hated about capitalism: a system that lets a white man gain power.
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She can move Portland Oregon.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/09/2020 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  This almost ensures the unthinkable: Seattle will drift even further to the left.

I don't think that is possible. We already have seen burning of police stations, lootings, shootings, murder. That is already so very communist.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/09/2020 8:20 Comments || Top||


Noncitizens and illegal immigrants found in North Carolina voting and jury pools
[WashingtonExaminer] Noncitizens are embedded in North Carolina jury and voting pools, raising new questions about the integrity of elections, according to an immigration reform group.

The Immigration Reform Law Institute on Monday said it had uncovered examples of noncitizens, and likely also illegal immigrants colonists, in the pools in Charlotte, North Carolina, and other key areas dating back to 2012.

Working with the Voter Integrity Project, IRLI conceded that the numbers were not enough to overturn election results but point to the lack of "political will" by government officials to clean up their rolls.

Voter Integrity Project co-founder Jay Delancy said, "The fact is that every state has mountains of evidence that would make it easy to get noncitizen voters off the rolls and possibly deported. But so far, all parties have lacked the political will."

In North Carolina, potential jury members are picked from voter rolls and motor vehicle department registrations. During the study period, some 6,000 noncitizen names were found in one county.

"Delancy and VIP co-founder John Pizzo began analyzing the state’s voter rolls in 2012. The pair obtained jury records from the Clerk of Courts in Wake County, the state’s second most populous county at that time, and discovered that, during a three-year window of time, roughly 6,000 prospective jurors disqualified themselves by notifying to the court that they were not U.S. citizens," said the group in its report.

"This was not the end of their discovery. Delancy and Pizzo then compared these names to the voter rolls, uncovering a total of 532 registered voters who had informed the court that they were not U.S. citizens. VIP’s investigative work had found that, of this group, 130 participated in an election at least once before being disqualified," it added.

For the latest presidential election, they found dozens on the rolls.

"In Mecklenburg County, the state’s second most populous county which includes metropolitan Charlotte, a total of 51 individuals were removed from the jury pool list because of non-citizenship between October 28, 2019 to July 7, 2020, the county’s Jury Office confirmed to IRLI. The Cumberland County Clerk of Superior Court, which operates in the state’s fifth most populous county, revealed that 18 potential jurors were removed for non-citizenship between October 1, 2019 to July 7, 2020. And lastly, Forsyth —- the state’s fourth most populous county -- reported a total of 16 potential jurors removed for non-citizenship from December 19, 2019 to October 6, 2020."
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Elect (and reelect) a Democratic governor, and...
Posted by: Tom || 12/09/2020 15:42 Comments || Top||


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As Israeli elections loom, center-left must contend with its loyalty problem
[IsraelTimes] Right-wing voters are famously faithful to their camp’s leader, giving Netanyahu room to maneuver, compromise, and live to fight another day

The center-left has a loyalty problem. Not, as the right likes to claim around election time, regarding Jewish values or the nation’s interests. It is disloyal to itself.

Consider the phenomenal loyalty Netanyahu commands from his voters. He is no stickler for right-wing policies or ideologies. In the seven months since the swearing-in of the 35th Government, relatively few major right-wing policy demands have been realized. Netanyahu’s supporters claim that’s because of the deadlocked "unity" government and the de facto veto Blue and White has over, for example, judicial reform or the legalization of wildcat West Bank outposts. But that doesn’t explain why relatively few major right-wing policy demands have advanced at any point in the 11 consecutive years that Netanyahu has now been prime minister. Indeed, he is often excoriated on the right for failing to reform the judicial appointments process, for holding back settlement construction and for seeming to consistently prefer left-leaning coalition partners to right-leaning ones — Labor’s Ehud Barak in 2009, Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni in 2013, and so on.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When "anyone but Bibi" is your only common ideology, elections be hard.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/09/2020 13:40 Comments || Top||

#2  That was my take, too, g(r)omgoru.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2020 14:24 Comments || Top||

#3  ^😊
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/09/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||



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