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Mogadishu hotel attack, Day 2: After 30 hours it’s over - at least 30 toes up, including all Al Shabaab turbans, 40 maimed
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Government Corruption
Did Biden Re-classify the MAL Documents, Making Them Hidden From Release As The Slow-Roll ‘Investigation’ Preempts 2024 For Trump?
[PJMEDIA]
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/21/2022 11:33 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Like a dog covering its crap.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/21/2022 12:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure it's a thing, but that does not mean "re-classifying" makes any sense.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Where was the White House Special Security Officer (SSO)? Trump advisors?
Who in their right mind, knowing anything about the snares of the beltway, would have suggested documents of any type be stored at a Trump residence ?

What could possibly go wrong ?

Trump betrayed once again.

Beyond stupid.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/21/2022 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ The presumption, of course, is that he did do that. The media is positive it's so, which puts it firmly in "too good to check" territory.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2022 13:01 Comments || Top||

#5  If the documents were ones that exonerate Trump regarding Russia or whatever as some news articles have suggested, Trump would have publicly declassified them and posted them on the web months before leaving office. Why wait? If its because names needed to be blacked out, no they don't.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/21/2022 19:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Tone-Deaf Pence: ‘Attacks on the FBI Must Stop'
[PJMedia] Former Vice President Mike Pence confirmed on Wednesday that he has about as much chance of being the Republican nominee for president in 2024 as Nancy Pelosi has of joining the Radio City Rockettes. Demonstrating a tone-deafness of Olympian proportions, Pence had harsh words for the Republicans who are appalled at how the FBI has become a tool of the partisan vendetta of Old Joe Biden and Merrick Garland against Donald Trump. In Pence’s world, the stout-hearted G-Men are still of unquestionable integrity, square-jawed, patriotic, non-partisan, and ever-vigilant for truth, justice, and the American way. It hasn’t been that way for a long time if it ever was, but Mike hasn’t noticed.

Pence, who has something of the mien of an upright, taciturn fed himself, said: “The Republican Party is the party of law and order. And these attacks on the FBI must stop; calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police.” According to ABC News, Pence added that while he was “deeply troubled” over the raid on Trump’s home, “the party can still hold Attorney General Merrick Garland accountable ‘without attacking the rank-and-file law enforcement personnel at the FBI.’”

Well, sure. There are no doubt a few FBI agents left who are conscientious and patriotic and are trying to do a good job for the American people. If Americans were storming FBI offices in the hinterlands and brutalizing well-meaning agents who had nothing to do with the Russian collusion hoax or the attempt to brand angry parents at school board meetings as terrorists, Pence might have a point. But they aren’t, and he doesn’t.
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Posted by: DarthVader || 08/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He hasn't figured out yet that the FBI, or at least the upper 4-5 layers, are decidedly not for law and order. Either that or he has and is lying.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/21/2022 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Efrem Zimbalist Jr. outlived his portrayal of an incorruptible FBI...
Pence is outliving his earlier image of a honorable politician...
Posted by: magpie || 08/21/2022 0:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Never liked back-stabbers like Pence.
Posted by: Cletle Shinese1880 || 08/21/2022 0:20 Comments || Top||

#4  He is living up to his name, and his opinion is worth about the same value: Pence

Pence is the plural of penny when referring to a coin of that denomination. Before decimalization, 12 pence made a shilling, and 20 shillings made a pound. This complicated currency system operated on fractions and had a separate nomenclature for incremental units.
Posted by: Vinegar Clunk6928 || 08/21/2022 2:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Desperate old country club Trunk wishing everything would go back to the 'old days'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/21/2022 6:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Imagine if every dime that is contributed to loser politicians like Liz Cheney and Mike Pence instead went to something constructive in the US, like paying down the National Debt.

What we need is to require a bond equal to the amount donated to make the donation legal. If your candidate wins, you get your bond money back. If not, it goes to National Debt reduction. Make those PACs and bundlers pay up in a big way.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2022 7:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Pence is the voice of unity that no one is looking for. He is a Barry Manilow album at a garage sale next to a Dollar General. No buyers.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/21/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Yuge disappointment, his returning to his traitorous colleagues in the caves.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/21/2022 9:43 Comments || Top||

#9  He is a Barry Manilow album at a garage sale next to a Dollar General. No buyers.

As Gene Simmons said, "What kid asks for a Pablo Cruise lunch box to take to school?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2022 10:05 Comments || Top||

#10  The Feebs have something on Whitey, the 8-Mile Baptist.
Posted by: Knuckles Angomort6922 || 08/21/2022 10:33 Comments || Top||

#11  ...these attacks on by the FBI must stop...

Fixed it for ya, Mike...not that I think you'll appreciate it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/21/2022 10:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Thus croaks another swamp creature. They are too dim to realize that their song gives them away.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/21/2022 11:10 Comments || Top||

#13 

It's NOT the FBI Rank and File I have a problem with.

It's the Dark Political Ops strike teams that need to be outed, and charged accordingly.

The problem is, the DC swamp is the one issuing them their marching orders. Therefore, the DC Swampers must protect them, or "handle" them in other ways.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/21/2022 11:27 Comments || Top||

#14  Au contraire mon frère! Attacks upon our intelligence services much increase. Because those attacks are attacks upon those whom actually rule us.
Posted by: Secret Master || 08/21/2022 11:30 Comments || Top||

#15  It's NOT the FBI Rank and File I have a problem with.

The one's whose reply "I was just obeying orders" when raiding houses of parents who complain to school boards? Those are not all around the 6 county area of DC.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/21/2022 11:44 Comments || Top||

#16  If a rank and file feeb wants to maintain that status, whose orders will be carried out, no matter how inimical to the Constitution?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/21/2022 11:53 Comments || Top||

#17 
Posted by: Aca Joe || 08/21/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#18  I think there is an echo-chamber in Washington DC. At some point you hear Fox News is helplessly bias and you give up on it, and then only get the left viewpoint. You start to believe the strawmen versions of conservative opinions, and basically become worthless.

The only defense is to actually have ideals that form and shape your opinions instead of basing them on whats popular or on other peoples arguments.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/21/2022 19:40 Comments || Top||

#19  I may be wrong, but I recall that Pence was the first to scream that General Flynn was wrong to speak to Russian counterpart. Pence is dirty.
Posted by: Sgt. D.T. || 08/21/2022 20:30 Comments || Top||

#20  Major news network 'echo chamber'? I sat in a break room and watched everybody nodding to MSNBC (or CNN) like bobble-heads ...it was surreal.
Posted by: magpie || 08/21/2022 20:45 Comments || Top||

#21  ^ Problem with this country is that people aren't as smart as they used to be or self sufficient. They are clueless as to "cause and effect" of actions of others in general.
Posted by: Shusoger Jereter6930 || 08/21/2022 23:34 Comments || Top||


Ron Klain and Susan Rice Take the Lead [again] as Joe Biden Disappears on Vacation
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s staff continue trumpeting the president’s legislative victories but have allowed the president to disappear into his August vacation.

Earlier this week, Biden appeared at the White House briefly to sign his massive green energy and health care bill but has not taken questions from reporters at the White House or appeared for any interviews to promote his agenda.

He has spent most of August out of sight, as he spent a week at Kiawah Island before returning to Delaware for another week off. This week, the president only emerged from his home in Delaware to golf once with his brother James on Friday and once with his deceased son Beau Biden’s father-in-law Ron Olivere.
Did Hunter join in? Cuz that would be awkward.
While the president is away, Biden’s staff are taking the lead on communications, as they appear to have no interest in putting the president in front of a camera.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain briefed Politico’s Playbook on Friday with their August messaging effort, which is underway without the president.

“I definitely get more done when he’s not here,” Klain bragged. “No question about it.”

He defended hiding Biden from the public, as the president has racked up a record 150 days away from the White House in his home state of Delaware.

“I don’t think it’s true he’s out there less than his predecessors,” Klain said. “I just think Donald Trump created an expectation of a president creating a shitstorm every single day.”

As president, Trump routinely took questions from reporters even while on his summer vacation.

Klain appeared on CNN and on MSNBC boasting of Biden’s recently passed multi-billion dollar spending bills and giving the president credit as the price of gasoline dropped below the record highs from earlier in the summer.

Klain struggled to explain why Biden’s approval numbers remained in the 30s, despite his action on these bills.

“I think it’s going to take a while, for people to appreciate that, react to that,” he said during an interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I think we are going to see the people respond to the leadership of President Biden.”

Susan Rice, Biden’s director of the Domestic Policy Council, also emerged with a messaging strategy about the rise of anger in the country from Trump supporters after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago.

Rice announced details of Biden’s “unity summit” planned in September at the White House.

“Hate must have no safe harbor in America,” she wrote on the White House website noting the summit would “counter the corrosive effects of hate-fueled violence on our democracy and public safety.”

Described as Biden’s behind-the-scenes “power broker,” in the White House, Rice is a rumored successor to White House chief of staff Ron Klain should he leave his position.

All signs point to staff continuing to keep Biden away from reporter questions and interviews about his presidency ahead of the November mid-term elections. The president plans to spend the weekend at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach in Delaware with plans to make a public appearance on August 30.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  As soon as President Trumps personal residence was raided they bundled Biden up and got him out of DC asap.
Posted by: Cletle Shinese1880 || 08/21/2022 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  And there you have it, 2024 problem solved.

Ex-CIA Chief Michael Hayden Implies Trump Should Be Executed for Taking Classified Docs
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/21/2022 2:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Hopefully Klain & Rice will reprise the Beria/Stalin pas de deux.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/21/2022 9:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Klain, Rice, and senior advisor Obama are clearly the puppet masters at the White House. Above that level are the moneyed Deep State and political czars of the three letter agencies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/21/2022 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Biden is assuming the Trotsky role - except for the intellect part.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/21/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Aca Joe || 08/21/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||



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