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Libya declares UK Ambassador persona non grata
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Biden's ambassador to Bahrain Steven Bondy used insulting and racist language about Arabs 'all the time'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Steven Bondy was confirmed by the Senate to the embassy in Bahrain on December 18

  • His main detractor in the explosive report is Miguel Correa, a retired general who is credited as playing an integral role in the US-brokered Abraham Accords

  • Multiple allies of Correa also claim to have heard about Bondy's alleged racism

  • The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and other UAE officials reportedly expressed their discontent with Bondy after a White House meeting in March 2018

  • Other State officials claim Bondy was prone to un-diplomatic gaffes

  • The State Department and Bondy denied the accusations to DailyMail.com
Posted by: Fred || 12/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Further evidence / proof this is being done entirely on purpose.
Posted by: Raj || 12/28/2021 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  And they think they're so smart and sneaky about it, Raj.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/28/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  My way of looking at it is, if you say that kind of thing anyplace but in an empty, un-bugged room, it will get out. If you don't say that kind of stuff, you will eventually be accused of it anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Kamala: Our Democracy Is Doomed Without Federal Takeover Over Voting System
[USA Today] WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris said the United States may lose its standing as a role model for the world — and democracy itself would be put at risk — if voting rights legislation is not passed.

Harris, who has taken the lead on voting rights, said during a wide-ranging interview broadcast Sunday on CBS News’ "Face the Nation" that people around the world are watching the United States "because we have held ourselves out to be a model of ... the ability of a democracy to coexist with an economic strength and power."

But Harris warned that if lawmakers don’t pass legislation to preserve voting rights, the United States’ standing could be in jeopardy.

"We have been a role model saying, 'You can see this and aspire to this and reject autocracies and autocratic leadership,'" Harris said. "Right now, we're about to take ourselves off the map as a role model if we let people destroy one of the most important pillars of a democracy, which is free and fair elections."

Harris recognized the issue isn't a top concern for many Americans but said it should be.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2021 07:06 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Brazen corruption. Hidden in plain sight.

Pack the Court. End the filibuster. Install "D.I.E." kommissars imposing political loyalty tests. Suppress reporting on the Democrats' massive corruption including the Biden Crime Family's sale of access to a front company for the CCP.

Isn't it funny how shameless and shameful mean the same thing?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/28/2021 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Even Kameltoe's figured out they're gonna get their asses kicked next November; might as well try one more Hail Mary pass.
Posted by: Raj || 12/28/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Kamala: Our Democracy Is Doomed Without Federal Takeover Over Voting System

...Exactly, Sugarplum. Yours is doomed, ours will do just fine without the Feds looking over our shoulders.

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

#5  Only a leftist could say "Only fixed elections can be fair," with a straight face.

Somewhere, Orwell, lights a smoke and says "I wish I'd written that..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2021 12:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Of course, she means just the opposite. By now it should be clear to all that Democrats always project their own behavior onto others.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/28/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Thank God the US is not a democracy and never has been.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/28/2021 15:36 Comments || Top||

#8  One of many such statenments by this cluck.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/28/2021 22:08 Comments || Top||


Biden signs the $768B national defense bill with more money for Ukraine, fighter jets, submarines and warships as Putin threatens war with Ukraine and China develops hypersonic missiles
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2021 01:14 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  ...Jets we can't maintain, ships that we can't repair, and money for the Ukraine.

Got it.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/28/2021 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  The Taliban are now our friends. We absolutely must have a new (or refurbished) old enemy. The cost savings of peace must be avoided. The MIC and our Congressional shareholders demand it !

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2021 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  $25 billion for a border wall and it's too expensive and would break the budget if we tried.

$768 billion to defend the borders of countries far from home.
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291 || 12/28/2021 6:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember when liberals use to march with signs that said, "The Air Force should have to have bake sales to buy bombers?"

Good times.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2021 6:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Has anyone asked Cindy Sheehan what she thinks of this policy?

Didn't think so...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2021 7:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Cash for cronies. And to late. It's all about bribery while trying to look like the traior cares.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/28/2021 21:31 Comments || Top||


Biden tells governors there is 'no federal solution on COVID'
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] President Joe Biden admitted that his administration has not done enough to ease the COVID testing demand, vowing to do better

  • In a meeting with 25 of the nation's governors, Biden acknowledged the long lines around the country

  • 'That's not enough. Clearly not enough,' Biden said, adding: 'We have to do more. We have to do better. And we will'

  • Meeting comes before he departed for Rehoboth Beach, where he will spend a few days at his family beach home in Delaware

  • Biden administration faces criticism for a shortage of COVID tests

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci said more tests will be available in January

  • 'We've obviously got to do better,' Fauci said Sunday on ABC's This Week. 'I think things will improve greatly as we get into January'

  • COVID cases hitting record highs in parts of country due to Omicron
Posted by: Fred || 12/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not surprising - Biden's crowd could fuck up a cup of coffee.
Posted by: Raj || 12/28/2021 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  There is no federal solution, however, federal mandates are going to remain in place.

Got it?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2021 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3  That's going to make arguments before SCOTUS interesting.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Your employment termination is not part of the solution, but you are being terminated regardless.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2021 7:23 Comments || Top||


#6  Now we've reached the Total Incoherence stage.

Next: Capitulation, to be followed by Change The Subject. Look -- over there!
Voting rights!
Ukraine!
Putcherfuckingmaskon!!!
LOOKOUT--it's Emmanuel Goldstein!


Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/28/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Meanwhile, Blue State normals are migrating in droves to DeSantis-Land. But on the QT so American Stasi doesn't get wind of their criminal behavior:,

When I announced our family was leaving New York and moving to Florida, a state with a governor who has led the way on sanely managing COVID-19, I received dozens of messages from New Yorkers considering the same move. When I asked several if I could quote them, they asked to use a fake name. They live in fear of being “canceled” for not being sufficiently terrified of COVID. Three vaccines and many new treatments do not seem to matter. We must live suspended in our fear indefinitely.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/28/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Does this mean they're going to stop micromanaging away helpful medications?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/28/2021 9:04 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Manipulating and immiserating the proles is the core of their game. They won't give that up.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Of course not. There wasn't last year either. And as far as I can tell, everything that's been tried has just made things worse.
Posted by: Angstrom || 12/28/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||

#11  When I asked several if I could quote them, they asked to use a fake name.

show the anonymized quotes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/28/2021 14:12 Comments || Top||

#12  "....saying the solution was solidly on 'state level.' "

Of course when Trump said something similar to that, he was excoriated.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/28/2021 14:32 Comments || Top||

#13  "States' Rights." Lefties are horrorized.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2021 14:42 Comments || Top||

#14  "Trump doesn't have a plan. I do." After blaming Trump for almost 2 years for not doing enough and almost a year of his lies and failures he claims it's not his job.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/28/2021 16:17 Comments || Top||

#15  Shifting blame, clearly.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/28/2021 21:29 Comments || Top||

#16  It doesn't seem that there is a Federal solution on much of anything. As was said by Reagan, "Government is not the soution, it is the problem."
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/28/2021 22:06 Comments || Top||



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