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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Ron Raffensperger, the Brother of Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, Works for Huawei in China – How Close Are They to the China Government?
[Gateway Pundit] Georgia’s Secretary of State has got himself in a mess. He just oversaw the most corrupt election in modern Georgia history. He was caught and he still won’t allow a real count of ballots in the state and a signature match of absentee ballots with signatures on record.

We wondered for the past many weeks since Election Day why would Brad Raffensperger destroy the election in his state and in the country. Why would he run a fraudulent election? Why would he try and steal the 2020 election for Biden?

Tonight we may be closer to the reason why.

It appears Secretary of State (SoS) Raffensperger has a brother, Ron. Ron hates President Trump and the two Republican Senators running for office in Georgia. Ron also works as the CTO for Huawei Enterprise Storage Solutions based in Shenzhen, China, a China government owned company.
"Works"? or just picks up checks, like Hunter?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 03:17 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Several days ago Trump asked, "What are they hiding?". Trump has the most amazing sixth sense about things.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/23/2020 3:44 Comments || Top||

#2  They're probably all carrying the China night soil.

China surfaces in Georgia Senate race after Loeffler’s tweet
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 3:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Guv's bro is a CTO for ... Huawei?
Good lord... you just can't make this shit up

We have the stupidest and most corrupt ruling class in American history
Posted by: Glavins Grainter8925 || 12/23/2020 5:42 Comments || Top||

#4 
Like I said a few days ago.
There is already a Investigated/Recall Raffensperger effort underway and gaining steam.


But either way ....
His chances of re-election depend on if the GA Pro-USA citizen win. Or if the China/Russia controlled US Socialist-Democrat Party does.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/23/2020 5:45 Comments || Top||

#5  I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just
Posted by: Snomogum Elmeating3065 || 12/23/2020 5:49 Comments || Top||

#6  How close to the CCP?

Very. Every Chinese business has to have several CCP members on board and allow open access to all of its information to the CCP.

So yes, Ron is literally working with the CCP.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/23/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||


Hunter Biden's Family Name Aided Deals With Foreign Tycoons
[WSJ] Hunter Biden ramped up business activities with European and Chinese tycoons as his father exited the vice presidency four years ago. For him it was a potential path to income; for the tycoons, the Biden family name promised to burnish their reputations.

The dealings got the younger Mr. Biden a discounted stake in a private-equity firm in China and consulting arrangements with a Romanian property magnate and overall allowed him to maintain a globe-trotting lifestyle, according to interviews, documents and communications reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. A Chinese energy tycoon gave Mr. Biden a 2.8-carat diamond, and entities linked to him wired nearly $5 million to Mr. Biden’s law firm, according to an investigation by Senate Republicans.

These arrangements now loom over President-elect Joe Biden. A federal criminal tax investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings is under way, with findings potentially trickling out in coming months. His business ties to well-connected people in China and other places could add to scrutiny of foreign-policy decisions taken by the Biden administration over possible conflicts of interest. All are likely to provide ammunition to Republicans.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), who has led the Senate Finance Committee whose Republican staff helped investigate Hunter Biden, has said he would continue to look into what he says are possible counterintelligence and criminal concerns related to Mr. Biden’s business dealings.

"Based on all the facts known to date, Joe Biden has a lot of explaining to do," Mr. Grassley said recently.

Hunter Biden has said he takes the tax investigation "very seriously" and is "confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately." He declined to comment for this article and his lawyer, George Mesires, didn’t respond to questions. In 2019, Mr. Biden said he wouldn’t work with any foreign companies if his father were elected U.S. president.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 02:34 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Fuck these slimeballs
Fuck them for what they have done and are continuing to do to our beautiful beloved country

And fuck those professional liars who call themselves "journalists" for sitting on these stories of actual, documented, obvious, gross, unimaginable corruption until 51 days after the election
Posted by: Omeanter Ebbeper8976 || 12/23/2020 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I can just imagine what the Chinese energy tycoon might have said when he gave Hunter Biden a 2.8 carat diamond: "You my bitch now."
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/23/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Chinese professor of Int'l Relns, speech in Mandarin with subtitles from a month ago in which he boasts about the CCP's tools on Wall Street and influence over Biden

Why did we resolve our problems with the US so swiftly from 1992 to 2016? We had people in there, in America's core circle of power-- we had old friends ...
Posted by: Ulomoting Hatrack5599 || 12/23/2020 11:47 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ damn... now they're just laughing at us. It wasn't enough to knock us down with COVID-- they're pissing on us as well.

That video should be shown to every single American who voted for the CCP puppet that Mr Dongshen openly mocks again and again. Then we need to do the election over.
Posted by: Juting Clomoter7895 || 12/23/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Did I see this morning that Joe trotted out the old "Russian disinformation" trope?
Posted by: Tom || 12/23/2020 13:04 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Plugs calls Fox News reporter a "one horse pony" after asking about Hunter Biden
[Right Scoop] Today a Fox News reporter asked Biden if he still feels the allegations against his son Hunter are ’disinformation’. After laughing and starting to walk away, Biden called the Fox News reporter a ’one horse pony’:

What exactly is a ’one horse pony’? I heard of a ’one trick pony’, but never a ’one horse pony’. Does a pony ride a horse?

Well, it wasn’t the teleprompter that got Biden this time, it was his own brain.

Biden claims his Justice Department will be independent, but just like Obama, you can expect he’ll have his henchmen in there getting rid of his dirty work. Of that I have no doubt.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 02:59 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What exactly is a ’one horse pony’?

The confused utterance of a sick, demented old man.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 3:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Biden = One hoarse phony
Posted by: Blossom Peacock9096 || 12/23/2020 3:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden is a canape short of a reception.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/23/2020 4:59 Comments || Top||

#4  If the PENN Election and other states are not over-turned. Then stock up on long term survival supplies.

Justice, as we have already seek does not apply to Socialist-Democrats and family.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/23/2020 5:56 Comments || Top||

#5  at least he didnt call him a one horse open sleigh

those are fighting words
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 12/23/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Biden's a one man jerk
Posted by: KBK || 12/23/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||

#7  "Somebody say whores?"
/Hunter
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/23/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#8  no doubt One-horse-pony = some pervert's safe word ... guess whose
Posted by: Clinemble Big Foot6970 || 12/23/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Sounds like Malarkey to me..... /s
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/23/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#10  You can lead a one-horse pony to water, but you can't make him drink. You can't lead the other end anywhere.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/23/2020 23:08 Comments || Top||


One of the many lessons of history lost to the minds of the small thinkers in Deep State.
[YouTube]


Fall of Civilizations: Roman Britain - The Work of Giants Crumbled

A vast ruined bath house, a fire-damaged poem and a world teetering on the brink of collapse.

In this episode, we look at the collapse of Roman Britain. Find out how a great civilization grew up almost overnight on the island of Britannia, how it endured the test of centuries against barbarian invasions and foolish rulers, and what happened after its final dramatic collapse.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Barbarian invaders: yep, 20 million illiterates and millions more soon to come pouring across our southern border thanks to Plugs and Susan Rice

Foolish rulers: boy oh boy... Clinton, W, Soetoro, Plugs...

Oligarchy, impoverishment of the masses, crushing public debt : nuff said

New religion destroying / displacing the old truths: yep-- Wokery, Black Lies Murder, toxic s'premissy this'n'that, St Greta's Fire, tranny madness...

Yeah, we've seen this play out before. Our turn now
Posted by: Jomoger Ulereck6123 || 12/23/2020 1:35 Comments || Top||

#2  The biggest source of barbarian invaders are American Universities.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/23/2020 2:48 Comments || Top||

#3  That won't happen this time! Because this time we will do it right!

(/sarc)

Well we already have Food and Circuses.

We also have the elites, untouched by any troubles, in their gated communites carrying on as if nothing is happening while the world falls about around them.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/23/2020 3:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Rent-seeking and lying about the burden it causes is the number one cause of civilizational collapse.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/23/2020 5:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Bread and circuses = EBT cards and television.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/23/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Half the States Base Giving COVID Vaccines on Minority Status Instead of Age
[Daily Mail via PJ] The Daily Mail reports that half the states in the country are giving COVID vaccines on the basis of minority status after first responders get it first. Black and brown communities suffer greater numbers of COVID infections, but the disease affects people by age more than by minority status. Just ask Washington Governor Jay Inslee and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who found out the hard way that elderly people in nursing homes are the most vulnerable. Indeed some states will prioritize nursing home residents, but minorities of all ages are next in line.

Public health officials will have to answer for why young Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Senator Marco Rubio got vaccines before a more vulnerable person, regardless of color. These members of Congress are young and are less vulnerable to COVID, so why are they getting the vaccine in the first wave?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 02:38 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, since covid is a hoax, what do you care?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/23/2020 2:46 Comments || Top||

#2  ....but minorities of all ages are next in line.


Shocking! Unless of course you were born yesteday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 2:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Washington Governor Jay Inslee and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who found out the hard way Their way wasn't the least bit "hard" compared to their victims who DIED.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/23/2020 2:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Male Sex is next highest indicator (MSM and "scyunz" papers seem to forget.) after age.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/23/2020 5:06 Comments || Top||

#5  The Tuskegee Experiment of the 21st Century
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 12/23/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#6  With the current political climate nothing will change. Con job in action. Being a politician makes you exempt from everything. No long term studies have been done so guinea pigs are the first to go. So Whites will be blamed for that also. Soon you will be scanned before entering any place where there will be people. Then you have to be current on your Vaccines. Every time you use your cards at a scanner expect update and warning of vaccine expatriation. Comply or no service. Arrest will be scheduled.
Posted by: Dale || 12/23/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||

#7  "Just a matter of time". Scarlet fever has made its return. Doctor said I haven't seen this in 17 years. Bacterial, so antibiotics will be use for that. I always wandered with increased populations what would happen. Buildings with no open windows. Air circulation systems in a closed environment. "Just a matter of time".
Posted by: Dale || 12/23/2020 10:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Coca Cola tests positive for Covid.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/23/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#9  #8 Yes, I saw that. Australia has some backbone these days.
Posted by: Dale || 12/23/2020 10:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Austria.
Australia is beating up women for walking without a pass mask.

Someone please tell me the story about the pope giving the cocktail an a-ok even though it uses abortion pieces to manufacture is a bunk story.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/23/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||

#11  Let 'em have it. We'll watch and see how they do.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/23/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#12  I have never been healthier in years. I am fine with being last or not on the list at all.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/23/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#13  And if anything goes south they will blame Trump for forcing it on them.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/23/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

#14  Our Waltz is refusing to make Minnesota's plan public.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/23/2020 19:10 Comments || Top||

#15  /\ Perhaps Minnesota's politicians should be given a pick and shovel and ordered to bury the dead.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 19:13 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ Honest work. Useful.
Better than whoring
Posted by: One Eyed Pheremp7882 || 12/23/2020 19:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Tucked into Congress' massive stimulus bill: tens of billions in special interest tax giveaways
[Stamford Advocate] WASHINGTON - Congress on Monday unveiled a 5,593-page spending bill and then voted on it several hours later, with lawmakers claiming urgent action was needed to rescue an ailing economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic.

But tucked in the bill was over $110 billion in tax breaks that strayed far from the way the bill was marketed to many Americans. These giveaways include big tax cuts for liquor producers, the motorsports entertainment sector and manufacturers of electric motorcycles.

These measures, added onto the broader spending bill, are known as "tax extenders" - tax breaks targeted at specific, sometimes niche industries. And routinely extending these "temporary" measures has become something of a year-end tradition, despite loud complaints from some lawmakers who allege the votes largely benefit special-interest groups who stand to gain financially from the outcome.

These tax extenders are designed to be temporary but are frequently renewed, often at the urging of industry lobbyists, and done so during late-night votes at the end of the year. (The Senate vote Monday took place shortly before midnight.) The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated the extenders benefiting industry and special interests included in the stimulus bill would cost over $110 billion over 10 years.

Tax experts and good governance advocates have criticized such short-term tax relief extensions, arguing they hide the true cost of the cuts and advantage industries with the most well-connected lobbyists.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 09:50 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because to most politicians in DC, all that philosophical mumbo-jumbo about true faith and allegiance and the idea of being a public servant is just the theater script to use to get in the seat. After that, they treat the American taxpayers as the tax farm to be plowed and harvested in the never ending ATM schemes some lobbyists or special interests think up.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/23/2020 12:56 Comments || Top||


Rudy Giuliani Drops a Bomb on The War Room – Says Arizona Lawmakers will Likely Vote Wednesday to Certify President Trump as Winner
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/23/2020 09:37 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hope my state does this!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/23/2020 10:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I just checked PJ Media/Instapundit, Bongino Report, and Rantingly — I saw nothing new about this having been done.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/23/2020 19:26 Comments || Top||

#3  I just learned today that Bongino is fighting cancer.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 19:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday
Posted by: Daffy Gonque1038 || 12/23/2020 19:36 Comments || Top||


President Trump Tweets Gateway Pundit Video Showing Poll Workers Stuffing Ballots Into Tabulators Numerous Times on Election Night
President Trump tweeted a Gateway Pundit video where we identified Georgia ballot workers jamming ballots into tabulators multiple times late on election night.

President Trump just now retweeted our video where we show Georgia poll workers jamming multiple ballots through tabulators multiple times. The video aired on OAN:
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/23/2020 09:26 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


‘Straight Up Racist' ‐ Joe Biden leaked Zoom call
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/23/2020 08:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Racist? I was afraid this was going to be a story about Biden going for his smoke meat wagon on Zoom.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/23/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#2  It's a comin' John.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#3  C'mon man!
"Hispanics are gonna be even bigger than y'all..."
Supposedly, however, Plugs actually stated the condition for his "doomed" comment but that condition was dropped from this edited version: "If we don't make progress on racial equity" [then] "this country is doomed."

Still it's patronizing as hell to speak to Americans as members of racial blocs. And even if you were to try to divide Americans by race, it's utterly stupid to pretend that Hispanics in this country consider their own racual identity to be anything other than White.
Posted by: Guillibaldo Fillmore8824 || 12/23/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||


Special Message From President Trump On Election Fraud (video)
[YouTube]
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/23/2020 08:12 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He lays it out put clearly and accurately
Posted by: 746 || 12/23/2020 13:18 Comments || Top||


Special Message From President Trump ‐ ‘I will veto the stimulus bill' (video)
[CitizenFreePress]
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/23/2020 07:41 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump said his second term would be devoted to stopping crazy spending. That is why the left is desperately cheating to stop him.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/23/2020 14:57 Comments || Top||


Pres. Donald Trump Demands Congress Add $2000 Direct Payments to Coronavirus Relief Bill
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump demanded Tuesday that Congress amend the coronavirus rescue package and government funding bill before sending it to his desk.

The massive 5,593-page bill was passed by both the House and the Senate on Monday night but immediately drew criticism for only sending $600 of direct aid to each American.

Trump criticized the bill for extending direct coronavirus relief payments to family members of illegal aliens, getting up to $1,800 each.

"This is far more than the Americans are given," Trump said.

The president did not say he would veto the bill but demanded that Congress amend it before sending it to his desk.

"I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2000, or $4000 for a couple," he said.

The also president lamented that the bill also failed to provide substantial aid to restaurants and small businesses.

Townhall - BREAKING: Trump Kicks Back $900 Billion COVID Relief Bill with These Demands for Congress
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 02:17 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


#2  While being on retirement ourselves, the Wife and I could always use the extra $4,000 total.

BUT, Why any $$$ for already fed, housed, clothed and medically cared for, Federally owned persons.

In why dole out $$$$ to illegals also.
YES Families with mixed immigration status (1 is legal the others Illegal will be eligible for COVID-19 Season 2 relief checks.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/23/2020 5:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Weimar Republic economics means never understaff the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/23/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Palosi: $1200, mere peanuts.

Madam Speaker, what do you plan on doing to show how you feel about the American People?

Palosi: Give them half that amount.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/23/2020 17:42 Comments || Top||


Nancy Pelosi Goes on CNN and Has a Meltdown Too Amazing to Miss
[PJMedia] It appears Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to move on from having her purely political motives for holding up a stimulus bill before the election scrutinized. Judging by the election returns, the voters held her accountable by nearly wiping out her majority in the House.

Now it seems some members of the corporate media are also trying to hold her accountable. This could be a sign the media has decided she needs to go. This would look similar to the trashing of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She made the critical mistake of being civil to Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham during the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. As if on cue, leaks from those close to Feinstein, allegedly, painted the picture of a woman in significant cognitive decline.

Now we have CNN host Wolf Blitzer taking Pelosi to task for dragging her feet on pandemic relief when so many Americans were suffering. This is not the first time she has been forced to address this, and she actually admitted during a recent press conference that her willingness to negotiate now was linked to having a new president. However, this appearance was even more astonishing.

Blitzer appears to be asking Pelosi about the content of the stimulus bill that has worked its way through Congress. The current bill provides significantly less relief than President Trump had on the table before the election. For example, the version that has passed provides Americans making less than $75,000 a year with a $600 payment. The previous version provided $1200. It seems like a reasonable question since Pelosi has admitted to holding up the previous bill.

Pelosi responds to the question by telling Blitzer he needs to respect her committee chairs’ knowledge. She then accused Blitzer of defending the Trump administration throughout the process. You didn’t know she does stand-up comedy, too, did you? She closed her initial comments by essentially calling Blitzer too stupid to understand the differences between the two bills.

Then it got weird when Blitzer attempted to close the interview:

Blitzer: Madam Speaker these are incredibly difficult times right now. And we’ll leave it on that note. Thank you so much....

Pelosi: No. No, we’ll leave it on the note you are not right on this Wolf. I hate to say that to you. But I feel confident about it and I feel confident about my colleagues. And I feel confident in my Chairs.

Blitzer: It’s not about me, it’s about millions of Americans who can’t put food on the table, who can’t pay the rent and are having trouble...

Pelosi: And we represent them. (Blitzer attempts to respond and Pelosi gets repetitive) And we represent them. And we represent them. And we represent them. We know them. We represent them and we know them. We know them. We represent them, yes.

Blitzer: Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good as they say here in Washington

Pelosi: It’s nowhere near perfect.

Blitzer: Madam Speaker

Pelosi: Always the case but we’re not even close to the good.

Blitzer: All right. Let’s see what happens because every day is critically, critically important. Thanks so much for joining us.

Pelosi: Thank you for your sensitivity to our constituents’ needs.

Blitzer: I am sensitive to them because I see them on the street begging for food. Begging for money. Madam Speaker, thank you so much....

Pelosi: Have you fed them? We feed them. We feed them.

Blitzer: We’ll continue this conversation down the road for sure. We’ll take a quick break and we’ll be right back.

Did you hear that? Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues in Congress feed the hungry. Maybe she shares some of her boutique chocolate ice cream with the homeless guy who sleeps outside her gate in Napa. Perhaps her staff will be the next one claiming their boss is in cognitive decline. In any case, this was not a good look.


Posted by: 746 || 12/23/2020 00:19 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We feed them. We feed them. We feed them. We feed them. We feed them. We feed them. We feed them. We feed them. We feed them.We feed them. We feed them. We feed them. We feed them. We feed them. We feed them. We feed them.

Feed on THIS, you mendacious demented withered old ......
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Noodleman3490 || 12/23/2020 3:08 Comments || Top||

#2  A rope and tree is too good for her
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 12/23/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Pelosi: Have you fed them? We feed them. We feed them.

More agitprop. Where's the part of the statement where the left causes the people to be indebt and broke?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/23/2020 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Homeless scavenging out of Nancy's dumpster isn't exactly exactly feeding them. Though I hear the ice cream leftovers are choice.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/23/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  This old hag has really lost it
Yet another symptom of national decay: all these brain-addled corrupt octogenarians clinging to power
Posted by: Waldemar Pelosi8352 || 12/23/2020 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe she's following the Feinstein example.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/23/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Entertaining, yes, but when's the V for Vengeance start?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/23/2020 19:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Feed them? "Soylent Green is People!!!"
Posted by: magpie || 12/23/2020 20:28 Comments || Top||

#9  That senile harridan is something else. It's funny as that that's not the first time she's snapped at MSM drones. She jumped into Judy Woodruff's egesta a few months ago pretty much calling Woodruff an apologist for the Trump Administration. Pelosi is around the bend and just may finally be on her way out as Speaker.


Posted by: Clem || 12/23/2020 21:37 Comments || Top||


Vice President Mike Pence: ''We're going to keep fighting, keep fighting for every legal vote in America,”
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#1  Good.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/23/2020 16:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Years ago I was in a lawsuit. Even though I won my case my lawyer said that if there is another lawsuit by these people, we will find a better judge. Lawyers know that judges decide things not the law.

Recently I got a ticket that I knew was wrong. I asked for a hearing. It was granted. I then researched the judge assigned. Found he always sided with who ever writes tickets. I then found a different judge. I found a way to have the case reassigned to that court and went to the clerk to set up a hearing. I showed the clerk my evidence. THE CLERK DISMISSED THE TICKET ON THE SPOT. Shows there is a massive difference between one court and the next.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/23/2020 17:13 Comments || Top||


Rand Paul delivers blistering floor speech opposing ‘monster' COVID spending bill, says GOP ‘no better' than Dems


[bizpacreview.com] At the risk of being called the Christmas Grinch, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took to the Senate floor Monday to deliver a blistering speech ahead of the vote to pass a $900 billion coronavirus relief package.

Taking fellow Republicans to task for supporting the "monster spending bill," Paul points out that it’s everything they claim they don’t believe in.

Congress passed the rescue package late Monday along with a massive $1.4 trillion government spending bill to fund federal agencies for the new fiscal year — a 5,593-page bill dropped on members just a few hours before the vote.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the measure "another historic rescue package to help American families through this pandemic," suggesting that this is what "struggling Americans have needed for months."

"This bill is free money for everyone. Proponents don’t care if you’re fully employed, or own your own house, or own your own business," Paul said. "Free money for everyone, they cry — and yet, if free money were the answer, if money really grew on trees, why not give more free money? Why not give it out all the time?"

"Why stop at $600 a person? Why not $1,000? Why not $2,000?" he added. Maybe these new ’Free-Money Republicans’ should join the ’Everybody-Gets-A-Guaranteed-Income Caucus’? Why not $20,000 a year for everybody, why not $30,000? If we can print out money with impunity, why not do it?"

Paul reminded his colleagues that the end result is a U.S. dollar that has no value.

"To so-called conservatives who are quick to identify the socialism of Democrats: If you vote for this spending monstrosity, you are no better," he said. "When you vote to pass out free money, you lose your soul and you abandon forever any semblance of moral or fiscal integrity."

The senator would go into detail about how dire the fiscal picture is in America as Congress approved $600 relief checks for everyone — and drew fire from people for that after previously passing stimulus payments of $1,200 per adult.

"If you’re looking for more COVID bailout money, we don’t have any. The coffers are bare," he said. "Congress has spent all the money long ago."

The bill also provides a temporary $300 weekly boost to unemployment benefits, and over $280 billion for Paycheck Protection Program loans for businesses. Schools and colleges will get $82 billion in funding, and there is another $25 billion for rental assistance and an extension of the eviction moratorium.

Sen. Paul called out the "overzealous" actions of local and state officials, saying that Congress is only helping "to perpetuate these lockdowns."

"We are borrowing and worsening this debt crisis in part because too many governors and mayors have imposed heavy-handed restrictions that crush business," he said. "It isn’t the pandemic that’s killing the economy, it’s the government’s overzealous response that is killing the economy."

"The more money that we give to the states the more they keep us in lockdown. Every bailout dollar printed and passed out to the governor only allows these tinpot dictators to perpetuate the lockdowns," Paul charged. "Their rules are arbitrary and unscientific. Governors and mayors across the country are picking winners and losers."

The Senate passed the relief package and government spending bill 91-6, with Paul being joined by five other Republicans in voting against it.

The other five were Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Mike Lee, R-Utah, Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Ted Cruz, R-Texas and Ron Johnson, R-Wis.

In a politics makes for strange bedfellows moment, Sen. Cruz took to Twitter to agree with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., about the monster bill being dropped just hours before a vote.

Sen. Paul shared his floor speech online where it trended for hours, noting that lockdowns are compounding the problem.

He added: "We are borrowing and worsening this debt crisis, in part, because too many governors and mayors have imposed heavy handed restrictions that crush business..."
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#1  The Senate passed the relief package and government spending bill 91-6, with Paul being joined by five other Republicans in voting against it.

The other five were Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Mike Lee, R-Utah, Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Ted Cruz, R-Texas and Ron Johnson, R-Wis.


Correct me if I am wrong, but the GOP controls the US Senate, correct? Six (R) senators voted against this. A mere six. And there, ladies & germs, is why the GOP is a broke joke--and has been for years.
Posted by: Clem || 12/23/2020 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  And so now we know who really are conservatives and who are not.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/23/2020 1:44 Comments || Top||

#3  I am amused by the idea that the mainstream GOP is different than the Dems. If you think of the parties as the "heels" and "faces" of professional wrestling, two sides locked in existential combat, presumably diametric opposites but actually two sides of the same grift, then it all makes sense.

As always, pay attention to the hands and not the words. Even AOC denounced this porkulus bill, but she voted for it anyway.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/23/2020 13:52 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ I am amused by the idea that the mainstream GOP is different than the Dems

They do share a similar taste in theater. Something tells me the similarities run much deeper.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2020 13:57 Comments || Top||

#5  They are simply different cheeks of the same smelly ass. And produce about the same result.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/23/2020 15:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Democrats are the "tax and spend" party, while the republicans are simply the "spend" party. At least the democrats pretend to want to pay for all that spending. Both parties are fine with the nation collapsing from the weight of all that debt, as long as it doesn't happen before the next election.
Posted by: AuburnTom || 12/23/2020 17:56 Comments || Top||

#7  The US National Debt will never be paid off. The bill will be satisfied in other ways at an unknown time.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/23/2020 23:10 Comments || Top||



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