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Biden Pledges to 'Hunt Down' Those Behind Airport Attack
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Page 6: Politix
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6 13:06 SteveS [15] 
7 23:39 Silentbrick [11] 
2 18:24 Anomalous Sources [9] 
3 09:16 M. Murcek [6] 
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2 17:29 Phereper White6745 [10] 
3 10:08 Procopius2k [2] 
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Top member of El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel FLIPS and gives 'substantial assistance' to feds: Smuggler, 60, is jailed for ten years in deal but she could be out in three
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, a senior leader in the Sinaloa Cartel, received a 10-year prison term during a Wednesday court hearing in Chicago

  • The 60-year-old is the only woman to hold a high-ranking position in the cartel that was co-founded by Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán

  • She was arrested in Culiacán, Mexico, in 2016 and was then extradited to the United States in 2017

  • She pleaded guilty during in 2019 conspiring to traffic drugs and money laundering conspiracy for coordinating the distribution of drugs to the U.S.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:45 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Finally, a successful "Fast and Furious" proof of concept.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  A Mexican Whitney Bulger?
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 08/28/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder how long she'll last before she commits suicide.
Posted by: Spats Gravigum9743 || 08/28/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Smuggler, 60, is jailed for ten years in deal but she could be out in three

...And likely to be dead a lot sooner than that.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/28/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Brownie Bulgerez
Posted by: Skunky Clunk4829 || 08/28/2021 12:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Brownie Bulgerez

*snort*!
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 13:06 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Signs Sex Ed Bill Requiring Kindergartners to Define Gender Identity
[Breitbart] Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) of Illinois signed SB 818 into law last Friday, claiming the new sex ed standards that require kindergartners to learn to define gender identity “will help keep our children safe.”
Wealthest family in the state and one of the most fat lard asses.
“Modernizing our sex education standards will help keep our children safe and ensure important lessons like consent and internet safety are taught in classrooms,” Pritzker said in a statement. “By working together, we’ll continue to strengthen our education system and deliver the bright future our kids deserve.”

The new law, which takes effect immediately, requires public schools in the state that offer sex education to align their curriculum with the National Sex Education Standards (NSES), the creation of organizations that advocate for sex ed consistent with abortion rights and LGBTQ inclusion.

Creators of the standards also boast they have been updated to include:

Continual evolution in language related to gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and sexual identity;

Inclusion of power and privilege, conscious and unconscious bias, intersectionality, and covert and overt discrimination, and the principles of reproductive justice, racial justice, social justice, and equity

Pritzker’s office states the new sex ed standards are “voluntary,” and that they are only mandated for school districts that are already teaching comprehensive sex education.

The new law, then, leaves it up to Illinois parents who oppose the new standards to opt their children out of sex ed, or to work to elect school board members who agree to stop teaching comprehensive sex ed in their districts.

Illinois Rep. Fred Crespo (D) expressed concern that no other state had signed onto the NSES standards.

The NSES were developed by Advocates for Youth, Answer, and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).

Since 2015, SIECUS has partnered with abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood and LGBTQ activist groups such as GLSEN and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to lead comprehensive sex-ed programs in schools throughout the country.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I see this as a good thing. To enumerate all the various genders, the kids will need to be able to count up to at lest five. Being able to count will lead to a huge jump in math proficiency scores which currently, to use a statistical term, suck donkey balls and have been trending flat for decades.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 3:29 Comments || Top||

#2  When did this gender nonsense actually start? Is there any person responsible for that?
Posted by: European Conservative || 08/28/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||

#3  OK groomer!
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/28/2021 19:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Herr Euro Conservative, honey,
The story is terribly funny:
Canuck imprecision
Wrecks boy's circumcision;
Then boy with no weewee
Meets crazy gay Kiwi,
Boy A humps Boy B like a bunny;
The lunatic thrives,
Boys get on with their "lives,"
But when books hit the shelves
Both the boys Kill themselves
After Oprah makes out.

Love,
John Money
Posted by: The Creature from Beyond Harvard7734 || 08/28/2021 20:29 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Hiding behind his tears — Sorry Biden's decisions led to Kabul carnage
[NYPOST] The deep grief on President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan......
’s face as his eyes swelled with tears was painful to watch.
No doubt. But did he have any idea what he was crying about?
But his personal suffering cannot exonerate him from the responsibility for what happened in Kabul.

Nor can his obscenely shameful effort to shift the blame to former President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
and even his own military commanders be taken seriously. Biden says the buck stops with him, but he doesn’t really mean it.

When the enemy strikes with deadly results, it’s somebody else’s fault. That’s not leadership and it certainly isn’t presidential.

If he truly claimed the credit, Biden would own up to the obvious fact that his actions played a big role in this horrific outcome. Instead, his claim that every commander agreed with him on the withdrawal plan is a bald-faced lie.

We know for certain the military argued against his hasty exit. Officers gave him alternatives and he said no because, for 50 years, Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The guy who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....
has always known best.

Yet when things go off the rails, he dares to hide behind the generals.

That’s politics, that’s Washington. It’s not the mark of a trustworthy commander-in-chief.

The worst day for our troops in Afghanistan in a decade will never be forgotten by those Gold Star families who received that dreaded knock on the door from someone in uniform. But it is also a terrible stain on America that our brave men and women were put in such a vulnerable situation.

They risked their lives in a ­heroic effort to save the terrified civilians of many nations. They have been succeeding in large measure, but have now paid an unacceptable and unnecessary price.

The shock isn’t just that there was a successful terror attack against America during our last stand at the chaotic, overrun ­Kabul airport. The shock is that it didn’t come sooner and claim even more lives.

The president’s pain, which always seems to be attached to the loss of son Beau Biden from cancer, does not change the fact his arguments for his position remain what they have been all along — unpersuasive, dishonest and foolhardy.

He set the terms of the withdrawal, including the abrupt abandonment of the Bagram Air Base, and approved the security-sharing arrangement with the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, a terrorist organization. He proudly cites those decisions, but those and others carry the unmistakable stench of weakness. When tens of thousands of people converged on the airport, the chaos was an invitation for murder and ­mayhem.

The strongest military in the history of the world was a sitting duck, with our warfighters reduced to playing defense in an impossible situation.

Biden’s original sin was his ­determined rush to get out of ­Afghanistan on a fixed timetable. Risk-averse to a fault, he made the avoidance of more casualties his chief measure of success.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"Maybe I shouldn't have insisted on stealing this election... sniff. Trump, you... sniff, bastard."

Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/28/2021 5:05 Comments || Top||

#2 

Should we really be blaming Clueless Space-case Joe?

Or should we focus on figuring out whom is actually running this mess behind the scenes.

How about in 2023 (after next election) we start weeding all of them out and putting them on trial?

Using 18 U.S. Code § 2382 - Misprision of Treason.
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/28/2021 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Or should we focus on figuring out whom is actually running this mess behind the scenes.

Well, it's no one in the Army or DoD. Befehl ist Befehl".... as they say.


Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2021 7:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Tears?
Note the well used hand-to-face ammonia bottle ploy at 0:21.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I weep for you,' the Walrus said:
I deeply sympathize.'
Posted by: European Conservative || 08/28/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Should we really be blaming Clueless Space-case Joe?

One really scary theory I heard a week or so ago is that Biden really is in charge.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/28/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||

#7  If only The President knew, they would make it right
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#8  If only the President was capable of...
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 08/28/2021 13:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Should we really be blaming Clueless Space-case Joe?

You know he has the 'football'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2021 15:32 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
One of China's top anti-corruption chiefs is charged with accepting £51 million in bribes
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Dong Hong was a senior figure in China's top anti-corruption watchdog

  • The former aide of Vice-President Wang Qishan is accused of accepting millions

  • Prosecutors say he has accepted around £51 million over two decades

  • A Chinese lawyer familiar with corruption cases said he will likely face life imprisonment or a suspended death sentence

  • Lai Xiaomin, the ex-chairman of one of China's state-controlled asset management firms, was executed in January for taking over a billion yuan in bribes
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 10:31 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away. -- old Chinese saying

He used to be Dong Hong, but now he is Long Gone. I'm guessing the problem was not so much the bribes, but that he got greedy and was not sufficiently wetting the right beaks.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 16:38 Comments || Top||

#2  The great purge is starting to devour the purgers.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/28/2021 19:20 Comments || Top||

#3  He was examining corruption firsthand. On the job training.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/28/2021 20:41 Comments || Top||


Eric Swalwell Floats Fang Fang Conspiracy Theories While Not Denying Classified Intelligence Report Existence
[BREITBART] Rep. Eric I farted on national television Swalwell
... U.S. Representative-for-Life from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s 15th congressional district since 2013. Naturally he's a Dem. His district covers most of eastern Alameda County and part of central Contra Costa County. He was rapidly eliminated from the 2020 Dem nomination pool. He looks a lot like Greg Marmelard, and has the distinction of being one of the few politicians to ever fart on national teevee...
(D-CA) is now floating conspiracy theories about how a Breitbart News story on the existence of a classified report detailing the explicit nature of his relationship with Chinese spy Fang Fang came out—but he is not denying the intelligence report exists.

The saga begins as follows: Back in late July, Breitbart News published an explosive exclusive investigation quoting multiple sources including a former senior national security official and a former senior external adviser to intelligence community leadership revealing the existence of a classified report circulated among intelligence community officials that detailed the nature of Swalwell’s relationship with Fang Fang, a Chinese spy. That she and Swalwell were entangled was long public based off previous reports, but this story revealed the intelligence report that collected a bunch of these details.

Swalwell did not respond to requests for comment for that original story, nor did the White House or Office of the Director of National Intelligence. President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan...
, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, or anyone else with original classification authority could order the declassification of the Swalwell report, as Breitbart News reported in that original story.

After the original story published, Fox News host Tucker Carlson did a segment on it—inviting on Breitbart News editor in chief Alex Marlow to discuss it—in which he viciously criticized Swalwell.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't think any of us should be satisfied until the penalty for voting this sort of creature in is your district goes without representation until the next regular election cycle. Rinse, repeat until a majority of the district's voters come to their senses.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/28/2021 8:19 Comments || Top||


Economy
New York Air Force veteran and her young daughter are living out of her car after being unable to evict tenants who refused to pay rent for almost a year under moratorium
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Brandie LaCasse owns three properties but hasn't been paid rent in almost a year, and is owed more than $23,000 in uncollected rent

  • She has not received rental assistance funds from the government after at least one of her tenants were approved for rental help

  • LaCasse claimed she had notified her tenants that they needed to move out so that she could move in - when they decided to stop paying her rent

  • Her tenant Carla McArthur, who was approved for rental assistance, expressed her sympathies for the landlord's position

  • McArthur said she can't pay rent because of the high costs for childcare for her daughter and autistic son
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:22 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A taking without just compensation. Who needs a Constitution, there really is only power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2021 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Rental property, the downside.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2021 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  We're seeing similar situations around here. The owners with small numbers of rental units are just getting hammered. The tenants aren't paying rent....because they don't have to.

The Banks don't care, the utility companies don't care, the folks doing repairs don't care (yes, you still have to keep up the property or risk fines and lawsuits) and the tax collectors don't care.

This poor woman and her daughter are living out of their car while her tenants have a warm place to call home.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/28/2021 8:15 Comments || Top||

#4  It sounds like what's needed is insurance against gummint edicts.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/28/2021 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  The Banks don't care,

The banks and Wall Street DO care - they are buying up all these distressed properties and now control 1/7 of the housing market. THEY are too big to fail, so the government will gladly underwrite any funding they lack.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/28/2021 15:42 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Same thing happened in the Great Depression. Bank officer and their pals knew which farmers and businesses were in trouble. They oftentimes stepped forward and purchased farms and businesses at a fraction of the value.

'The rich get richer......"
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2021 16:09 Comments || Top||

#7  One of my accounting professors mentioned how his group used to deal with squatters and people needing eviction. At first they tried the legal way, and that was expensive and time consuming...so they went with hired goons. When the goons showed up, slowly read the note that says, "Boss man says you get out now or..." They got out. Turned out to be much cheaper.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/28/2021 23:39 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
HHS diverting millions in funding marked for vaccine efforts to housing migrant children
[FoxNews] $187.5 million had been earmarked for 'vaccine planning, distribution, monitoring and tracking'.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has notified Congress that it will transfer an additional $589 million, some of which comes from funding marked for COVID-19 vaccination efforts, to its program to shelter unaccompanied migrant children who have entered the U.S. at the southern border -- part of more than $4 billion that has been diverted to the program this year.
could've built a wall
HHS informed Congress that it is diverting $225 million in National Institute of Health (NIH) funding that was part of the December COVID-19 relief bill to the unaccompanied children (UAC) program, as well as $364 million in HHS funding that was passed as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP), a congressional source told Fox News. Data shared with Fox News confirms that source's account.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let's see... 14,000 kids...$2 billion...that's $142,857 per kid. Do they really need luxury hotels? Couldn't we just put them all in tents out in the boondocks?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/28/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Priorities (vote "purchasing") lead the $.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/28/2021 18:24 Comments || Top||


Time's Up CEO resigns in wake of Cuomo scandal
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The chief executive of the sexual harassment victims’ advocacy group Time’s Up resigned Thursday amid outrage over revelations that its leaders advised former New York Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo
...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out....
’s administration after he was first accused of misconduct last year.

Time’s Up CEO and president Tina Tchen said in a statement that she’s "spent a career fighting for positive change for women" but was no longer the right person to lead the #MeToo-era organization.

"I am especially aware that my position at the helm of TIME’S UP has become a painful and divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
focal point, where those very women and other activists who should be working together to fight for change are instead battling each other in harmful ways," she wrote.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How big of a severence check did she write herself?
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 08/28/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Remember: this Tina Tchen Twat was formerly COS to Michelle "Big Mike" Obama and "Tchen reached out to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to put her in touch with actor Jussie Smollett’s family after Smollett reported that he was a victim of an attack in River North"

Her stink is all over the place
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2021 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Her dining allowance appears to have been "generous..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/28/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
MSNBC's Joy Reid praises Biden's handling of Afghanistan
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] MSNBC’s Joy Reid
...Harvard-educated lefty MSDNC (If you're white you ain't right!)
commentator, given to fits of hyperbole, bad arithmetic, and faux sophistication...
praised President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan...
for his Afghanistan exit this week. "Despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the right, the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
has accomplished something that’s actually truly remarkable in Afghanistan."

Reid has been a vocal supporter of the President's military exit out of Afghanistan, despite wide criticism and plummeting polls for Biden. Prior to praising the President, Reid attacked former President Trump and blamed any shortcoming in relation to Afghanistan on him.

"It was Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
who wrote America’s exit strategy," Reid said. "Trump’s ’peace plan’ set fall of Afghanistan in motion" and the "GOP tried to blame Biden for Trump admin policy."

On another segment of her program, Reid attacked Trump again, alleging he would not have attempted to rescue Afghans.

"I think it’s magical thinking that’s the problem, thinking somehow Donald Trump would have evacuated those Afghans," Reid said. "No he wouldn’t have."

Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When you have Reid on your side, you know you're toast.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/28/2021 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2  - Joe is traveling today but, sends you Joy Reid, his thanks,
Posted by: Phereper White6745 || 08/28/2021 17:29 Comments || Top||


Panicked Democrats switch from 'defund' to 'refund' the police
Landslide ‘em onto the ash heap of History.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Democratic Party’s quest to defund police forces, an act in which it kowtowed to its hard-left-wing base, has come to a very bitter end. The resulting surge in violent mostly peaceful crime has produced a massive public backlash that threatens the careers of elected Democrats throughout the nation. Naturally, the endangered species is trying to distance itself swiftly from the wreckage that "defund the police" has left behind.

The mayors of Portland and Seattle, who respectively slashed police funding by $15 million and $7.5 million last year, are now moving to restore those budgets amid spikes in violent mostly peaceful crime made worse because coppers are choosing to retire rather than stay where their work is scorned by their employers.

Something similar is happening in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
, where last year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black...
demanded that the police force leave vacant positions unfilled as part of a broader drive to cut police budgets. Lightfoot now faces a 60% increase in murders since 2019 , and suddenly, she sees the light — the police are not expendable, and the thin blue line between chaos and order cannot be allowed to get any thinner.

She says she wants "to recruit the next generation of officers." Good luck with that. All over the country, police forces are dwindling because officers are quitting their thankless jobs in cities run by leftists. We're deeply sympathetic to the city communities betrayed by their politicians, but it's hard not to take a certain pleasure in the backlash now engulfing the political charlatans who perpetrated this disaster.

Police reform has been and remains an important issue, but the Left has tried to demonize the brave officers and rejected the very existence of law enforcement itself, attributing racist motives to even basic measures to suppress crime. Compounding the problem is a gaggle of irresponsible leftist prosecutors who have taken office in communities such as Philadelphia and the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
. In the name of racial justice, they refuse to prosecute brazen crimes and care not at all for the mostly nonwhite citizens whom these predators victimize.

According to the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
, the number of black murder victims rose by an astounding 23% from 2014 through 2019 — more than three times as fast as the rise in white victims. Not only does this mean that blacks now comprise 54% of all murder victims, but it also means that nearly twice as many black people are being murdered every single year as were lynched in the entire history of the Jim Crow South , according to a detailed 2015 report on that grim chapter of U.S. history.

In other words, today’s Democratic defund agenda inflicted more death in minority communities than back when the leaders of the same party were hiding behind white masks and burning crosses.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: 3dc || 08/28/2021 5:33 Comments || Top||

#2  When you start seeing teefa and blom riots getting shut down, it will be a worthwhile indicator. For now all they are doing is "talking the talk."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/28/2021 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Why would you want to be a cop in a city that will throw you to the wolves? See - frog and scorpion
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||


Texas House PASSES voting bill that runaway Democrats fled the state to try and block
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The six-week political showdown drew to a close when three of the fleeing Democrats gave up their fight and returned to work last week

  • The bill passed 79-37 mostly along party lines, and now heads to the Senate

  • During hours of fiery debate on Thursday, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan instructed lawmakers not to use the word 'racism' in reference to the bill
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


VP cancels her California trip to campaign with Gov. Gavin Newsom and returns to DC
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Vice President Kámala Harris
    Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
    canceled her planned trip to stump for California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday after twin bombings in Afghanistan

  • She was originally supposed to be the headliner at the Stop the Republican Recall car rally at the historic Cow Palace outside of San Francisco on Friday

  • Newsom had hoped to use Harris to draw out Democratic turnout in the recall election as he slips in the polls

  • A short time later, Harris' spokeswoman tweeted that she would be returning to DC instead, Newsom's campaign canceled the event

  • It is unclear whether it will be rescheduled
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Monty Python Time! ♪ Brave Sir Robin VP Kamal ran away! Ran away, away...♫
Posted by: magpie || 08/28/2021 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  No sense going down with a sinking ship when you don't have to. Kammie's best strategy is to maintain a low profile so after the current debacle blows over, she can latch on like a limpet to a new power center.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Her agents are guiding her every move.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2021 1:54 Comments || Top||

#4  She found out he's gay, right?
Posted by: Raj || 08/28/2021 2:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Newsom prolly asked her to waive off. As bad as it is for him, she's glowing green radioactive right now. Mighta been a WH "optics" issue also. The Big Guy is expected to head to Cali to campaign for Newsom next weekish. Recall is underway w/votes due by 14 SEPT. Everything I read says it's too close to call right now.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 08/28/2021 5:53 Comments || Top||

#6  I read Biden cancelled as well. I think Newsom called them off as they are toxic right now as said previously.
Posted by: Ruprecht || 08/28/2021 8:26 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ Likely a Pelosi directive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Cause Joe's gonna drop?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#9  @ #6 - the network that shall not be named (shit be upon them) reports that Corn Pop is still going to Cali as of 15 hours ago.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 08/28/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Where's Biden?
Posted by: Otto Tingle3349 || 08/28/2021 10:20 Comments || Top||

#11  Pelosi doesn't want Biden to talf.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/28/2021 12:17 Comments || Top||

#12  Too bad we can't recall Joe.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/28/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#13  No press was allowed in her briefing to service members in Hawaii.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/28/2021 14:08 Comments || Top||

#14  I have received a vision:
Kamala slinks off somewhere because of Reasons.
Chelsea Clinton becomes Veep.
Sleepy Joe rides off into the sunset with the warm feeling of a job well done and a pudding cup.
Clintonic Hilarity ensues.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2021 16:46 Comments || Top||

#15  /\ Nothing is out of the realm of possibility for these traitorous SOB's.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2021 16:48 Comments || Top||

#16  /\ *Ugh* SteveS, please! That is too scarily possible.
Posted by: magpie || 08/28/2021 17:18 Comments || Top||

#17  Better (perhaps) Clintonic Hilarity than Big Mike & La ValJar
Posted by: Gomez Tojo9437 || 08/28/2021 18:28 Comments || Top||



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