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-Great Cultural Revolution
Activists Crash Wedding Officiated by Sen. Sinema
[TOWNHALL] Progressive activists showed up to an Arizona wedding officiated by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema
...Dem senatrix from Arizona. She began her political career in the Arizona Green Party and rose to prominence for her progressive advocacy, supporting causes such as LGBTQ rights and opposing the war on terror. She left the Green Party to join the Arizona Democratic Party in 2004 and was elected to a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2012. After her election, she joined the New Democrat Coalition, the Blue Dog Coalition and the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, amassing one of the most conservative voting records in the Democratic caucus. She won the 2018 Senate election to replace the retiring Jeff Flake, defeating Republican nominee Martha McSally. Sinema is the first openly bisexual (meaning she's not particular) and the second openly LGBT woman to be elected to the House of Representatives and to the Senate in 2012 and 2018, respectively. She also was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arizona....
(D) to protest her opposition to Democrats' massive spending plans, prompting the bride and her mother to plead with demonstrators to stop 'ruining' the event.
I don't think she's following the logic of their arguments.
Sinema was officiating the wedding for her personal friend last weekend when protesters arrived at the venue and began chanting while holding signs that included phrases like, "Sinema Betrays Democrats" and, "We voted for you — shouldn't you vote for us?" according to a video of the event posted to YouTube on Oct. 24.

Sinema spokesperson Hannah Hurley told Tuscon.com in a statement that the senator "officiated a personal friend’s wedding at which a small group of activists protested during the private ceremony."

The bride confronted the group of protesters at one point, expressing frustration over the disruption of her wedding.

"Thanks for ruining my wedding. I really appreciate it," she said sarcastically. "It's just my wedding. I really wish I could enjoy my wedding without you ruining it."

Later on, the bride's mother appeared in tears to plead with protesters to let her daughter enjoy her wedding day.

"It's my daughter's wedding. Just for an hour — just let her get married, please. This person is not my daughter," she said of Sinema. She requested that the protesters leave for an hour during the ceremony. Some agreed to protest in silence, while one continued to shout toward the venue.
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Time for what the lefty morons call "direct action."
Enough of this shit. Take back our country.

Zero tolerance for Bolshevism.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  This is really gonna convince her to change her mind and principles. Right.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/01/2021 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  re#1: Buy more ammo.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/01/2021 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  "The bride confronted the group of protesters at one point, expressing frustration over the disruption of her wedding.

"Thanks for ruining my wedding. I really appreciate it," she said sarcastically. "It's just my wedding. I really wish I could enjoy my wedding without you ruining it.""

Stand up for yourself, girl! (presumed). I like the cut of her jib, and of Sinema's, shockingly. I had expected nothing good from her.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/01/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#5  The irony is amazing. But they always, always, go after the useful rubes when they are through with them...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/01/2021 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Sinema's got (big) brass (ones)
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 11:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Florida ‘Teacher of the Year’ charged with child abuse against student days after honor:
report Caroline Melanie Lee had been tapped with the honor...

Blame Both on Menopause
Posted by: Bill Spemble9061 || 11/01/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#8  That explains why someone gave the groom a water cannon and some canisters of tear gas for a wedding present.
Posted by: Tom || 11/01/2021 14:55 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has COVID19.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/01/2021 08:22 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hope she gets over it and recovers.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/01/2021 11:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Her or the virus?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/01/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#3 

>THE BIGGER QUESTION

After the White House demanded/required that
ALL White House Press Media be VAX's and show proof.
She still manages to get infected.

So either her "claimed" VAX wore off quicker than others,
OR she never got the real shot????

Either way, She has managed to raise the Bigger Question:

Is this another LIBERAL...
Do as we say, Not as we do.

Regarding the Booster.....


Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/01/2021 12:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Who will keep telling lies for her while she recuperates?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/01/2021 12:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Looks like Da Rona did some circling back on its own
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 12:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Who will keep telling lies for her while she recuperates?

Dr Jill, stepping up to her Edith Wilson role. A new phase begins.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 12:39 Comments || Top||

#7  I was thinking Fauxi. I mean, he's just so credible...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/01/2021 12:45 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ press sec'y podium's too tall for gnomes to be seen
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 12:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Ref #6: I would not be at all surprised to learn Dr. Jill is taking a more active role than many realize. Might explain Kam's cooties.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/01/2021 13:03 Comments || Top||

#10  $100 says she's being treated with Ivermectin.
Posted by: Angstrom || 11/01/2021 15:33 Comments || Top||

#11  "Sorry, there will be nobody available to answer questions about The Vatican for at least 2 news cycles."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/01/2021 17:20 Comments || Top||

#12  Mrs. Wilson, it's never too late
To embrace a more positive fate.
Even Ruth of endearingly
Permanent sneer
Found her truth at that nunnery gate.
Posted by: Boss Creper1819 || 11/01/2021 17:21 Comments || Top||

#13  I have my doubts at to the veracity of Psaki.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/01/2021 19:33 Comments || Top||

#14  If I were her, I'd be worried about the White Coats purposefully making things worse to make an example.

If they are willing to melt the face off of puppies one fly bite at a time, then what is a used up, replaceable bobble head and her potentially uncomfortable inside The White House knowledge?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/01/2021 19:39 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Southwest pilot is heard 'telling passengers Let's Go Brandon' at the end of flight
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A Southwest Airlines pilot reportedly told passengers 'Let's Go Brandon' as he signed off on a flight from Houston to AlbuquerqueHe was seen in a TikTok video telling passengers about the weather outside as they landed before saying 'and let's go Brandon'

  • Pilots were also reportedly heard repeating the message on their radios throughout the day

  • 'Let's Go Brandon' is a coded message for 'F*** Joe Biden' after a reporter at a NASCAR event mistook the vulgar chant for praise for driver Brandon Brown

  • The sentiment comes amid growing tensions about President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for all federal contractors - including airline workers

  • The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association tried to get an injunction on the mandate but were overruled last week

  • Southwest employees have also been seen standing outside the airline's Texas headquarters protesting the mandate


Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Love it. How grass roots rebellions succeed.

LGBQT QWERTYU'n'ME?

Nope. LFKGB: Let's f--king go, Brandon
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2 

CNN to report his CO-Pilots name is Brandon. ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/01/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  We're all Brandons now
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 11:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Southwest dodged a bullet with the vaccine mandate sickout and now they are re-opening the same can of worms.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/01/2021 15:59 Comments || Top||

#5  So far the only person to hear "Let's go Brandon" was the whiney, leftist "reporter" who reported it. She then tried to get in the the locked cockpit. Other people said the the pilot said, "Let's go Braves".
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/01/2021 16:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Lets go BRAVES. THe audio is available online. Its tds LEFTY MENTAL DISORDER THAT CAUSED THE "REPORTER"" TO HEAR WHAT SHE THOUGHT SHE DID.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 11/01/2021 23:38 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Safeway in California claims 'out of control' shoplifting as Walgreens closes more than a dozen stores over theft
[RT] A San Francisco grocery store that was once open 24 hours is now limiting its hours due to “out of control” shoplifting, the latest example of businesses closing or limiting hours due to rampant petty crime in the blue city.

The Safeway grocery store in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco will now be closing its doors at 9pm, the earliest of any Safeways in the city.

San Francisco supervisor, Rafael Mandelman, told the San Francisco Chronicle the limiting of hours is due to “out of control” shoplifting, and he plans to speak with the police department and district attorney’s office to “to see what is currently being done to deter theft at Safeway, and to figure out a plan to do better.”

Mandelman said in a separate interview that shoplifting has been “off the charts” and numerous businesses have been complaining that police rarely make arrests, even when they are called.

“I think like a lot of retailers they’ve been experiencing increasing property crime and theft from their stores,” he said. “I think the last six months from what they say has been sort of – off the charts in terms of how bad it’s been. It’s sad, upsetting and frustrating.”

Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  By design.

#FGS
F--k George Soros. Someone needs to give this mofo the русский полоний treatment before he and his communist DAs destroy every single large city in this country

BASTA
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like California will get the Soviet system after all.
1. Wait in line. Hope store doesn't close while in line.
2. Go to a counter. Ask to buy a product. Receive slip.
3. Go to second counter, present slip. Pay for product and receive receipt.
4. Go to third counter, present receipt and receive product.
5. Walk nonchalantly past AK-47 toting guards.
6. Wait in line for another product, if available.
Posted by: Hupusolet Smith5796 || 11/01/2021 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  A few years back Albertsons located in downtown El Cajon, Ca moved to outskirts of town over similar issues...homeless stealing from the grocery.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/01/2021 0:40 Comments || Top||

#4  This is not about a few random aimless bums.

This is subversion by a perverted billionaire and his deranged far-left minions.

A concerted plan to destroy rule of law in a great nation -- and then achieve a "transformation," like the one that Lenin and his backers achieved in 1917.

Wake the f--- up.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 0:45 Comments || Top||

#5  They’re getting what they voted for (or allowed to be fraudulently faked) good and hard.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2021 0:54 Comments || Top||

#6  welcome to decivilization.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/01/2021 7:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, liberal white people always whine about "food deserts" in minority neighborhoods. Now they can have first-hand knowledge of one of their own talking screeching points
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/01/2021 9:25 Comments || Top||

#8  If the Constitution were construed in accordance with its plain and intended meaning, there would be no question but that every member of Congress who is a self-described socialist would be ineligible to hold federal or state legislative, executive, and judicial office.
Posted by: Snakes Whomort4818 || 11/01/2021 9:47 Comments || Top||

#9  They hate Amerikkka. They can't move it, so they want to make it into a foreign country. It's not the cheerful, adventurous country I grew up in now. It will be less so for our kids.
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

#10  It's the 'equitable' plan for nations; They can't bring the others up to this level, so they want to tear this one down to their level.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/01/2021 10:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Just close the stores. There problem solved.
Posted by: Chris || 11/01/2021 11:03 Comments || Top||

#12  Safeway is big in California. If their corporate management has enough sense to push the politicians on this, or withhold campaign contributions, something might get done about it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/01/2021 12:12 Comments || Top||

#13  I understand that's a big "if".

But it'd be funny if San Franciscans had to drive across one or the other of their famous bridges to buy groceries in Oakland or Sausalito.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/01/2021 12:17 Comments || Top||

#14  I hear breadlines are big in some countries
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/01/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||

#15  #9 They hate Amerikkka. They can't move it, so they want to make it into a foreign country. It's not the cheerful, adventurous country I grew up in now. It will be less so for our kids.

Agreed, Mr. Fred. Assuming our kids decide to stay in the new USSA.

But how will they make a go of it as honest and patriotic citizens in a country whose elites across every institution demonize them, seek to grab their wealth or positions, and persecute them for daring to protest the madness?

Even the military is being destroyed. Loyal officers are now telling their sons not to choose military careers. There is literally no institution left that has not been poisoned by these little Bolshevik grifters.

Our kids and grandkids will have to start looking abroad if they want to find a place where they can honor their heritage and have a chance at living as free men and women.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 12:54 Comments || Top||

#16  ..where else is there to go?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/01/2021 15:05 Comments || Top||

#17  E. Europe
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 15:14 Comments || Top||

#18  ^ All the glowing stories in the MSM about expats and Americans giving up their passports suggests some people think elsewhere is better. I actually wish there were more of them. Especially the ones that renounce their citizenship (Assuming they don't keep on voting in our elections anyway.)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/01/2021 15:16 Comments || Top||

#19  Is Orban's Hungary corrupt? Sure. Same for Russia. Corruption in Poland, too, and N. Italy. Prob'y Austria as well.

But in those countries and regions, a white make of European descent can still make a living with honest work and raise a family with pride in his heritage. No one will tell him he's wicked, or that his daughters need to let Dudes in Dresses into the girls' restroom and then lie about the inevitable rapes or other attacks that these freaks perpetrate. No Wakandan bullshit, no stigmatization as "domestic terrorists," no suppression of speech by employers or neighbors or Tech Oligarchs.

When Putin and Orban make more sense about matters of liberty and culture than our own elites, it's time to start thinking about going east.

The question is not about freedom va tyranny. It's about choosing between left-authoritarianism and right-illiberalism.

Take your pick. There is no third option now.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 15:27 Comments || Top||


Economy
AmericanAirlines said it had canceled more than 1,400 flights over the weekend
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  staff shortages

Huh? WTF is wrong with this country?
Airline jobs are plums: high pay, good working conditions. Fabulous perks.

So we're now paying people NOT to take nice jobs?

We Are Ruled By Morons
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Staff shortages due to some mandate, perhaps?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/01/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Hmmmm. Could be. But you'll never hear it from MSM.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/01/2021 12:17 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Hunter Biden's 'journey home' art exhibit in SoHo appears to be a 'sparsely atended' flop
[NATION.PK] Amid criticism by Republicans that Hunter Biden
...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him...
’s novice artwork, displayed at the Georges Berges Gallery and priced between $75,000 and $500,000 could be purchased by people looking to curry favor with the president, the White House earlier issued assurances that it had an ethical arrangement with the gallery to prevent influence-peddling.

The much-anticipated exhibit of Hunter Biden’s paintings this week at the Georges Berges Art Gallery in SoHo has attracted a paltry trickle of visitors to date, reported the New York Post.

Furthermore, those who did stop by to glimpse at the novice artwork reportedly sporting price tags of between $75,000 and $500,000, mostly declined to identify themselves, claims the outlet. A handful of artists and industry professionals showed up for the private viewing of "The Journey Home — A Hunter Biden Solo Exhibition", which opened on 23 October and is set to run until 15 November.

With Biden’s parents, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us...
and First Lady Jill also a no-show at the West Broadway venue, Georges Berges, the art dealer who owns the gallery, said that it was "unfortunate" the White House couple couldn’t see their son’s work. ""It’s unfortunate that a father or mother can’t see his work, but it’s the times we live in and it’ll become a distraction," he was quoted as saying by Artnet News.

Among the visitors earlier in the week was Gene Epstein, former senior economist at the New York Stock Exchange, accompanied by his artist wife Hisako Kobayashi - one of 19 artists represented by Berges, according to the gallery’s web site.

Bill Fine, president of Artnet online art resource and database, was also among the meagre stream of visitors to the controversial show that features 25 works on metal, canvas and Japanese Yupo paper.

"The artworks pulsate with colour, deep reds, ultramarine blues, and gold leaf... Most seem allegorical, steeped in mythology, symbolism, and personal history. Snakes twirl their bodies around totems," according to Artnet News.

After 15 November, the exhibit will move to the Berges’ gallery in Berlin. "One of the things that I never anticipated was the political irrationality that people can have," Weighing in on the controversy that Hunter Biden’s art show has been steeped in, Berges was cited by the outlet as saying:

"There are the blind, predetermined judgements, not just of Hunter, but of myself. If people objectively look at his work, it’s great work. And the majority of people they come in and they’re like, ’Wow, I didn’t expect this!’"

The pricey debut artwork produced by the President’s second son, who never had any artistic background and was at a loss to secure a gallery to exhibit his works before 2020, has raised red flags for many critics. Hunter Biden’s name has been steeped in controversy throughout late 2020 as the November presidential elections pitted his father, former Vice-President Joe Biden against Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
, who was seeking reelection.

The New York Post had published an exposé on the alleged unethical and potentially illegal influence peddling involving Joe Biden after damning emails were taken from a laptop supposedly abandoned by Hunter Biden at a Delaware repair shop.

The documents suggested that then-Vice President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.......
met Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive from the Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, less than a year before Ukraine's then-General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin was fired at the US VP's request. Another batch of emails ostensibly threw light on an unspecified business venture with a Chinese firm and allocation of "20 [percent] for H[unter]" and "10 percent" for "the big guy," with Hunter Biden's former business associate Tony Bobulinski quoted by the media as saying the "big guy" referred to Joe Biden.

Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sparsely attended.
Lavishly compensated.

Most corrupt era in US history.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Exactly. Not like the buyers will show their faces
Posted by: Percy Flotle3938 || 11/01/2021 5:36 Comments || Top||

#3  As long as it provides a channel for laundered payoff money it serves it's purpose.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/01/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe they think #FJB's influence has peaked.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/01/2021 12:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Sparsely attended, but did his paintings sell?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/01/2021 14:54 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ yes, on the QT. Funds transferred offshore.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 14:57 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^^ I think that is exactly it. I bet you could get an almost perfect negative correlation between the price of Hunter's art and Joe's disapproval rating.
Posted by: Tom || 11/01/2021 14:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
McAuliffe (D candidate for VA Guv) took $350k sleasy foreign source
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] A government watchdog group hit Terry McAuliffe with a campaign finance complaint on Friday over a $350,000 donation he received from a foreign-owned company linked to an overseas money laundering probe, according to a copy of the filing obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Terry probably figured he could hide this until after the election and he was almost right.
But how many votes were already mailed in before this news broke?
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/01/2021 09:20 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  answer to question in blue

as of yesterday am; 1.1 million of expected 5.9 million votes have already been received by Sec of State; probably another few hundred thousand are in the mail

also this info will likely be buried on on the bottom of page 20 or so in the WaPo tomorrow and most voters won't see it
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/01/2021 11:19 Comments || Top||

#2  McAuliffe is the poster child for the most corrupt era in modern US history. This Clinton bagman helped them and himself to 9-figure fortunes by selling access for 30 years.

McAuliffe began his career in the early 90s by looting labor unions' pension funds in bogus Florida real estate deals. He's been selling access steadily ever since, and also pocketed tens of millions from sweetheart deals allowing him to invest at a steep discount in shit companies (Global Crossing, "GreenTech Automotive" etc) which then go on to defraud federal and state government entities -- on the way to huge valuations before they inevitably crash. McAuliffe always gets out right at the peak: four months before Global Crossing crashed and burned, McAuliffe cashed out $18 million (on an original $100k sweetheart investment).

This f--ker has collected millions from Chinese spies, corrupt US executives, scam artists of all stripes.

McAuliffe's simian smile will no doubt be one of those that grace the profiles on our Kakocracy's version of Mt Rushmore.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 12:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Like it matters - nothin's gonna happen. G
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/01/2021 18:29 Comments || Top||


New Hampshire and Pennsylvania Withdraw from the National School Boards Association
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Over Letter Labeling Parents 'Domestic Terrorists'
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not enough. Destroy their power base. Smash the public schools: take your kids out and drain them of state funding
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Defund the Schools. Gee, sounds like something out of someone else's playbook.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/01/2021 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Time to start creating parallel structures.

It's obvious that our Republic is gone.

You cannot turn an oligarchy into a republic. If we can't destroy the oligarchs -- and they have shown us clearly that they "reserve to themselves the right to commit any crime and tell any lie," including jailing hundreds of citizens without trial for nearly a YEAR on made-up charges as they perpetrate yet another idiotic hoax about "insurrection."

Roger Kimball put it well recently at Hillsdale:

[O]ne melancholy lesson of the January 6 insurrection hoax: that America is fast mutating from a republic, in which individual liberty is paramount, into an oligarchy, in which conformity will be increasingly demanded and enforced.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 7:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Faster please
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/01/2021 8:20 Comments || Top||

#5  The National School Boards Association forgot a golden rule in attack politics.

Never attack a issue or cause that BOTH SIDES support.

eg. Parents for standing up for their kids safety.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/01/2021 8:31 Comments || Top||


CNN analyst ripped for comparing pilot's anti-Biden 'Let's go Brandon' sign off to ISIS loyalty pledge
[RT] A CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
national security analyst and former 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...
agent received heavy backlash after she compared a pilot's anti-Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
remarks before takeoff to an holy warrior declaring ’Long live ISIS’.

After an unnamed Southwest Airlines pilot allegedly said ’Let's go Brandon’ — a recent conservative meme that has become code for ’F**k Joe Biden’ — while signing off of a Friday flight from Houston, Texas to Albuquerque, New Mexico, CNN national security analyst Asha Rangappa compared the incident to an Islamic holy warrior making a statement in support of the terrorist group Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS, formerly ISIS).

"As an experiment, I'd love for an @SouthwestAir pilot to say ’Long live ISIS’ before taking off. My guess is that 1) the plane would be immediately grounded; 2) the pilot fired; and 3) a statement issued by the airline within a matter of hours," Rangappa tweeted, garnering heavy criticism on social media, including from journalist Glenn Greenwald who called it illustrative of "the rot of modern-day corporate media."
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CNN national security analyst Asha Rangappa

This is a joke, right? For Halloween?

An ironic twist, as in "CNN + national security" actually means threat to American security
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I swear, I HATE these POS more and more everyday! they just throw any bullshit out hoping it will stick. If us deplorables were like ISIS you would have been shut up a long time ago.
Posted by: Chris || 11/01/2021 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  ...more like buried.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/01/2021 16:32 Comments || Top||

#4  How did we get here?
How do we get out?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 22:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Lets go BRAVES is what was said. The "reporter" who broke this apparently let her biases control her.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 11/01/2021 23:38 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Hypocrite airways? Jeff Bezos's £48m Gulf Stream leads parade of 400 private jets into COP26 including Prince Albert of Monaco, scores of royals and dozens of 'green' CEOs- as huge traffic jam forces empty planes to fly 30 miles to park
  • MailOnline watched as plane after plane of dignitaries landed in Glasgow and Edinburgh for COP26 meeting

  • Prince Albert of Monaco was among those choosing to fly private - according to an analysis of flight records

  • Bank of America, which in PR documents boasts of its 'commitment to sustainability', owned two of the jets

  • Prince Charles is among those travelling by non-commercial plane from G20 in Rome, MailOnline can reveal

  • Boris Johnson is kicking off COP26 summit today exhorting world leaders to back up their talk with action
Related: Busy schedule getting to you Joe? Biden appears to fall asleep while listening to first speakers at COP26 after packed weekend meeting the Pope and the G20 in Rome
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/01/2021 10:44 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's good to be the king...
https://youtu.be/8z8SpgmF0sA
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/01/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#2  But their boat load of coke was wind powered, so they got that.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/01/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#3  "Let them eat cake"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/01/2021 16:31 Comments || Top||



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