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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Deutschland and Fwance want to have a trade war NOW with the USA and kiss the CCP!
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 10/28/2022 05:04 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  German Chancellor Scholz will visit China on Nov 4
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/28/2022 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  “The Free World is United” LOL
Thank you, Brandon!
Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You || 10/28/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  “The Free World is United” LOL
Thank you, Brandon!
Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You || 10/28/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You

Every time I see that name I feel Biden is running up behind me to smell my hair.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/28/2022 10:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Do we have a Trump "Miss me yet" image?
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/28/2022 11:19 Comments || Top||

#6  The purpose of the EEC, the European Economic Community, was to wage trade war on the USA. It's ugly stepchild the EU has more imperialistic ambitions...
Posted by: magpie || 10/28/2022 12:26 Comments || Top||

#7  I really don't get this. The very, very strong dollar means that EU exports to the US are cheaper to us and that our exports to them are more expensive. So they should be seeing sharp improvements in their balance of trade with us. What is going on?
Posted by: Tom || 10/28/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Fuck you pieces of shit. We already had a trade war and you won. Europe profits to the tune of $60 billion each and every single year from trade with us. We pay them handsomely for the privilege of trading with them.

And now, that we're making it more fair, suddenly they want to fuck us over? Fuck them. Aren't they the ones who, during Trump, gave us condescending lectures that tariffs don't work?
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 10/28/2022 12:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Let's Go Brandon!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/28/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Another diplomatic triumph for Brandon's legacy!
Posted by: Bobby || 10/28/2022 14:45 Comments || Top||


Far-right militiamen convicted of terror for aiding plot to kidnap Michigan governor
The plot led by several Trump-hating anarchists amusingly labelled as far right white nationalists.
[IsraelTimes] Ruling comes after two other militia members were found guilty of plotting to abduct Gretchen Whitmer
...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender who never got off the ground...
and detonate a bomb, in protest of her COVID restrictions


Three members of a far-right US militia group on Wednesday were found guilty of domestic terrorism charges including providing support to people who plotted to kidnap and kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The court action comes two months after two militia members were convicted of conspiring to abduct Whitmer and detonate a bomb over the tough COVID-19 pandemic restrictions she imposed on the northern state. They were among six people arrested in October 2020 following an 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...
sting operation that uncovered the plot.

"Today, three defendants were found guilty of material support for terrorism, gang membership, and possession of a weapon while committing a felony in support of the plot to kidnap and kill me," Whitmer, a Democrat, said on Twitter shortly after the convictions were announced by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.

"No threat, no plot, no rhetoric will break my belief in the goodness and decency of our people. And these verdicts are further proof that violence and threats have no place in our politics," Whitmer added.

Joseph Morrison,
...the former Marine reservist known online as Boogaloo Bunyan, he cofounded the Wolverine Watchmen...
Paul Bellar
...more formally Paul Edward Bellar, he was brought in to teach the guys soldier stuff, but according to his dad he threw up his hands in disgust after only a few sessions, walking away long before the events in question...
and Pete Musico
...Boogaloo Bunyan’s co-founder...
— all from Michigan and described as members of the Wolverine Watchmen — face up to 20 years in prison and $20,000 fines, the attorney general said in a statement. Sentencing is scheduled for December 15.

The kidnapping plot — which Nessel’s office said was aimed in part at inciting a US civil war — caused a national uproar when it was revealed just weeks before the 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...
2020 presidential election.

"Terrorist attacks and mass shootings are not spontaneous events, they are the result of planning, plotting and amassing resources in a build-up to violent mostly peaceful acts," Nessel said.

"The prosecution of these cases prevented horrific acts from taking the lives of innocent people."

The convictions come less than two weeks before Americans head to the polls in critical midterm elections to decide whether Democrats or Republicans control Congress, governorships and state houses across the nation. Whitmer is running for re-election in a tight race.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/28/2022 04:08 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I have no problem with this guys doing time, but I'd like to see the FBI guys that planned the operation and pushed everyone forward pay some price.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/28/2022 11:19 Comments || Top||

#2  A wise philosopher once told us, “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.”
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Patsies
Posted by: mossomo || 10/28/2022 16:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Pasties
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/28/2022 16:34 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/28/2022 16:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Tom Waits went to my High School ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2022 20:44 Comments || Top||

#7  he threw up

Thank you for catching my typo — I assume that’s why it’s highlighted.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/28/2022 22:01 Comments || Top||


Stacey Abrams' nonprofit paid her close friend and campaign director nearly $10m in legal fees to fight an unsuccessful voting rights case
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Stacey Abrams' voting rights nonprofit paid her campaign chair's law firm nearly $10 million in legal fees to handle a largely unsuccessful voter suppression case

  • Politico reported Monday that campaign chair Allegra Lawrence-Hardy's law firm, Lawrence & Bundy made $9.4 million in 2019 and 2020 from the group Fair Fight Action

  • The report came on the heels of Fox News Channel finding that Fair Fight Action had paid thousands to the group's director's family and friends

  • After losing the gubernatorial race to 2018 to now Gov. Brian Kemp, Abrams is challenging him again
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Used to be self-dealing was a crime. Now it's part of the dems SOP.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/28/2022 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, Stacey Abrams has to pay people to be her friends.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/28/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 - Hey, a girl's gotta eat!
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2022 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  In a world other than the one we actually live in, followup relevant info would be itemized billing to the firm and and also from the firm if it paid out money to an entity that is Stacy Abrams. You could argue that this info would be covered by attorney client privilege, but that privilege prevents law enforcement from using communication between an attorney and client as evidence. It should not cover billing, law firm accounts payable, activity related to RICO cash flow.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2022 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  has to pay people to be her friends

Yeah, the dog didn't even get a shot at the pork chop they tied around her neck.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/28/2022 12:46 Comments || Top||

#6  The whole thing stinks of a kickback scheme.
Posted by: JHH || 10/28/2022 12:48 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 - Nahhh. That's just where the soap and water don't reach...
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2022 13:16 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Snark o the day vote from me on that one, Frank!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/28/2022 13:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Having a visual issue with the ‘pasties and g string’ directly preceding Boxcar…..
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/28/2022 17:21 Comments || Top||


Economy
Meta (FB) fined $24.7M for campaign violations
Maybe pocket change to Z-Burg, but META stock took a big hit.
[AyPee] A Washington state judge on Wednesday fined Facebook parent company Meta nearly $25 million for repeatedly and intentionally violating campaign finance disclosure law, in what is believed to be the largest campaign finance penalty in U.S. history.

The penalty issued by King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North was the maximum allowed for more than 800 violations of Washington’s Fair Campaign Practices Act, passed by voters in 1972 and later strengthened by the Legislature. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson argued that the maximum was appropriate considering his office previously sued Facebook in 2018 for violating the same law.

Meta, based in Menlo Park, California, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Washington’s transparency law requires ad sellers such as Meta to keep and make public the names and addresses of those who buy political ads, the target of such ads, how the ads were paid for and the total number of views of each ad. Ad sellers must provide the information to anyone who asks for it. Television stations and newspapers have complied with the law for decades.

In 2018, following Ferguson’s first lawsuit, Facebook agreed to pay $238,000 and committed to transparency in campaign finance and political advertising. It subsequently said it would stop selling political ads in the state rather than comply with the requirements.

Nevertheless, the company continued selling political ads, and Ferguson sued again in 2020.

Ferguson described the fine as the largest campaign finance-related penalty ever issued in the U.S.

Meta, one of the world’s richest companies, reported quarterly earnings Wednesday of $4.4 billion, or $1.64 per share, on revenue of nearly $28 billion, in the three month period that ended Sept. 30.

YAHOO-NEWS
"Investors wiped more than 67 billion dollars off the market value of Facebook's parent company Meta on Wednesday."
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hopefully, someone is blasting the Warren Zevon album, Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School over the corporate intercom.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2022 11:55 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
The 634-page report on Hunter Biden's laptop — and 459 alleged crimes
[NYPOST] Right-wing nonprofit research group Marco Polo finally has published its Hunter Biden laptop opus, a thorough forensic examination of every document on the first son’s notorious MacBook computer that he abandoned in a Delaware repair shop in April 2019.

The 634-page report (plus 2,020 footnotes) lists six alleged crimes committed by Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
— including tax evasion and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) — alongside 459 crimes it alleges were committed by Hunter, including illegal foreign lobbying and money laundering.

The group’s firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
founder Garrett Ziegler, a 26-year-old former deputy to Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro, has sent the report to more than 4,000 people, including every member of the House and Senate, White House staff, US Attorney offices and every contact on the laptop.
Every contact? Oboy.
He also sent a copy to every one of Hunter’s former classmates in the class of 1988 at the tony Archmere Academy in Delaware.
Scorched earth. Mr. Ziegler is definitely not playing for pennies and matchsticks.
The accompanying note reads: "We thought you might be interested in reading about your most infamous classmate. We believe that Archmere Academy really molded Hunter into who he is today."

Courtesy of Skidmark: The Report
Posted by: Fred || 10/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Yet the DOJ/_ _ _ leadership and DC SWAMP sat on it for their political agenda reasons for what, 18 months?

But had no problems FAKING a Russia Gate scenario for impeachment when Trump presented and defended the AMERICA 1st agenda.

But, given all the False and Purged impeachment testimony presented, NOT ONE Upper Level person was indicted there either?

The DOJ & _ _ _ agencies need to be flushed of the LSD Political 5th columnists that apply a double standard and violate CITIZEN Rights.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/28/2022 9:12 Comments || Top||

#2  It will be interesting to see if application volume to Archmere goes upor goes down.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||


Nancy Pelosi attacks media merger ‐ after getting big campaign donation
[NYPost] Whores gotta get paid, as TW noted
Nancy Pelosi is creating static over a deal to take a massive group of TV stations private — after she and fellow House Democrats got more than $500,000 in campaign donations from Byron Allen, a comedian-turned-media mogul who wants to block the deal.

The House Speaker sent an Oct. 6 letter to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel expressing “serious concerns” about an agreement by Tegna — a publicly traded chain of 64 local TV stations that was spun off from newspaper giant Gannett in 2015 — to sell itself to the hedge fund Standard General for $8.6 billion.

Meanwhile, Federal Election Commission filings show that in the fourth quarter of last year Pelosi got $271,300 in campaign donations from Allen, who owns a group of cable-TV networks including The Weather Channel and is angling to nab Tegna’s nationwide broadcasting empire to widen their distribution.

During the same quarter, Allen — who earlier this month made headlines for buying a $100 million estate in Malibu, Calif. — also donated $275,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which backs Democratic candidates for the House, FEC filings show.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OT? Paul Pelosi violently attacked in his own home - currently in hospital.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/28/2022 10:36 Comments || Top||

#2  thanks RM - made it its own post.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  The transportation infrastructure that Pelosi is most concerned about are the tracks for the gravy train.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2022 12:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Tegna operates CBS Channel 8 in the San Diego market. I don't see how a change of ownership could make it any worse but with Pelosi sticking her nose into it I'm afraid I'll find out.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/28/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Paul Pelosi attacked in San Francisco home
[SF Examiner - hat tip Rex Mundi]
A man who attacked Paul Pelosi, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, specifically targeted their San Francisco home, people familiar with the matter said Friday.

Pelosi was attacked and severely beaten by an assailant with a hammer. Pelosi, 82, suffered blunt force trauma to his head and body, according to the two people with knowledge of the investigation into the attack who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing probe. He was being treated by doctors for bruising, severe swelling and other injuries. Pelosi’s spokesman Drew Hammill said he was expected to make a full recovery.

The assailant is in custody, and the motivation for the attack is under investigation, the spokesman said.

“The speaker and her family are grateful to the first responders and medical professionals involved, and request privacy at this time," Hammill said in a statement.

While the circumstances of the attack are unclear, the attack raises questions about the safety of members of Congress and their families as threats to lawmakers are at an all-time high almost two years after the deadly Capitol insurrection. The attack also comes just 11 days ahead of midterm elections in which crime and public safety have emerged as top concerns among Americans.

In 2021, Capitol Police investigated around 9,600 threats made against members of Congress, and members have been violently attacked in recent years. Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot in the head at an event outside a Tucson grocery store in 2011, and Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., was severely injured when a gunman opened fire on a Republican congressional baseball team practice in 2017.

Members of Congress have received additional dollars for security at their homes, but some have pushed for more protection as people have showed up at their homes and as members have received an increasing number of threatening communications.

Capitol Police, tasked with protecting congressional leaders, said Nancy Pelosi was with her protective detail in Washington at the time her husband was attacked. She'd just returned this week from a security conference in Europe and is due to keynote an advocacy event Saturday evening with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Capitol Police said the FBI and San Francisco police were also investigating. The suspect is in the custody of the San Francisco police.

Often at Nancy Pelosi’s side during formal events in Washington, Paul Pelosi is a wealthy investor who largely remains on the West Coast. They have five adult children and many grandchildren. The two have been married 59 years.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2022 11:20 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Two weeks before the mid-terms. Amazing timing. Sorry if I'm skeptical.

No doubt the demoncrats, who demand 'privacy' will be fundraising on this for awhile...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/28/2022 11:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder if the drunk driving payoff check bounced??
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/28/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  And throw in the "break-in" of the Dem office in Arizona, there has to be a few "hmmmm's" about now.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/28/2022 11:38 Comments || Top||

#4  "Paul Pelosi is a wealthy investor".
No comment.

Another untold story is about their son. He's not exactly a Hunter Biden, but he's still shady from what it sounds like.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/28/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Wait a minute. Blunt force trauma to the head from a hammer and he's expected to make a full recovery? Does he have a titanium skull or was the guy with the hammer so stoned he couldn't land a solid blow?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/28/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Should have flashed his State Trooper Membership Card at the attacker.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/28/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#7  'Reaping the whirlwind' when you subsidize thugs like the Antifa?
Posted by: magpie || 10/28/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Nancy Pelosi was with her protective detail in Washington at the time her husband was attacked.

Hmmmm...
Posted by: Cletle Shinese1880 || 10/28/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||

#9  I don't like anybody, even Pelosi being attacked in their own home. If I would maintain mine is inviolable it must extend to theirs.

Still I couldn't help but notice that Gabrielle Giffords 'was shot', while Steve Scalise was severely injured when a gunman opened fire. Isn't that like being shot or something?
Posted by: Cesare || 10/28/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#10  I'll bet he's trying to frame someone with a 'bandaged head, bribed doctor' routine. You get severely beaten at 82 with a fuckin' hammer, you don't make a full recovery. Expect anything from these assholes, and give them zero credence.

Key paragraph: the attack raises questions about the safety of members of Congress ... as threats to lawmakers are at an all-time high almost two years after the deadly Capitol insurrection
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/28/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Who's to say he's not Smolletting ya?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/28/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

#12  While the circumstances of the attack are unclear, the attack raises questions about the safety of members of Congress and their families as threats to lawmakers are at an all-time high almost two years after the deadly Capitol insurrection.

Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown San Francisco. The druggies and crazies you've allowed to take over are finally working their way up the food chain. And "deadly Capital insurrection"- the only person violently killed was one of the demonstrators.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/28/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

#13  Is that home where the 2nd in line for succession to the office of POTUS sometimes resides?
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 10/28/2022 13:00 Comments || Top||

#14  Like when Harry Reid got his face punched up by an exercise band?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/28/2022 13:02 Comments || Top||

#15  Think about it. Either the people who did it had no idea who he is or they didn't care.

Neither is a positive indicator for a blue run city.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/28/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#16  "Where's that freezer fulla ice cream??"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2022 13:10 Comments || Top||

#17  A law enforcement source told The Times that Paul Pelosi, 82, was attacked with a hammer and sustained numerous upper-body blows. The house appears to have been intentionally targeted, sources added.

🎼 Oh, if I had a hammer 🎼
I’d hammer … a grifter
Posted by: Cletch Clunk7954 || 10/28/2022 13:10 Comments || Top||

#18  POLICE BLOTTER 10/28: Paul Pelosi, 82, of San Francisco found hammered.
Again.
Posted by: Cletch Clunk7954 || 10/28/2022 13:12 Comments || Top||

#19  But was he masked?
Posted by: Cletch Clunk7954 || 10/28/2022 13:13 Comments || Top||

#20  "One does not simply walk into Palosi's House."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/28/2022 13:26 Comments || Top||

#21  Pelosi originally had hammer - was disarmed by intruder and then attacked. Police were already onsite when this happend. Attacker new it was Pelosi residence asking "Where's Nancy?".
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/28/2022 13:49 Comments || Top||

#22  "Where's the money Lebowski?"
Posted by: BrerRabbiy || 10/28/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||

#23  ....Okay, from Fox:

The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul, was assaulted with a hammer early Friday inside his San Francisco home by an attacker identified by police as David Depape, who a law enforcement source tells Fox News was shouting "Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?"

San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said Depape, 42, is now facing charges of attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary and several several other additional felonies stemming from the incident after 2 a.m.

Scott said police responded to a wellbeing check and found Depape and Paul Pelosi, 82, struggling over a hammer. He said officers then witnessed Depape pull the hammer away from Pelosi and "violently assaulted" him.

Officers then immediately tackled Depape, disarmed him and took him into custody, while requesting emergency backup and rendering medical aid at the scene. The motive for the attack remains under investigation.


Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/28/2022 14:04 Comments || Top||

#24  ...And yet more, from heavy.com:

David Depape was identified as the suspect accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, with a hammer in the couple’s home.The name was first reported by Demian Bulwa, news director for the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. Police have now confirmed the suspect’s name. David Depape is a Berkeley resident. Heavy will add a suspect photo to this story when one is obtained. What is Depape’s politics and was he on social media? On a blog and website, he was fixated on censorship and made anti-Semitic comments. Online records give Depape’s age as 42.

Joe Eskenazi, of Mission Local, tweeted, “My sources also name the suspect in this morning’s hammer attack on Paul Pelosi as David DePape, born 1980, of Berkeley. He would appear to be a former Castro nudist protester. Things appear set to be bizarre for a while.”

A 2013 article in the San Francisco Chronicle mentions Depape, although his name is spelled wrong. It describes him as a “hemp jewelry maker.” That article reported that Depape was the best man at the naked wedding of Gypsy Taub.



And the guy had some pretty grim anti-Semitic material up online.


Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/28/2022 14:21 Comments || Top||

#25  " police responded to a wellbeing check "
Posted by: crazyhorse || 10/28/2022 14:25 Comments || Top||

#26  Confused client's drunken husband attacks GIGOLO with HAMMER [Weekly Pique]
Posted by: Lumpy Hapsburg5861 || 10/28/2022 14:40 Comments || Top||

#27  CNN has already spun it as this DePape fellow being an 'election denier' and Capitol 'insurrection' nut.

He suddenly has a trail of disjointed conspiracy posts about rigged elections, democrat corruption etc.

(CNN)The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband early Friday posted memes and conspiracy theories on Facebook about Covid vaccines, the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, and an acquaintance told CNN that he seemed "out of touch with reality."

I say again, this is a Smollettian exercise by the Dems for the election. There was a staged attack, no one got hurt and the cops and doctors are all in on it. Chances are this DePape patsy is a druggie and so whacko he doesn't even know what he's agreed to.

But, if members of Congress are really in mortal danger by fringe actors... well ...[whistles]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/28/2022 14:49 Comments || Top||

#28  Or, [skim skim skim] as the story unravels...

GAVELED! Mr. Nancy in midnight brawl with Berkeley nudist NAZI over bounced check for $51.50 [Yearly Peer]
Posted by: Lumpy Hapsburg5861 || 10/28/2022 14:55 Comments || Top||

#29  Both those are more credible than the police narrative, Lumpy. 🙃
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/28/2022 14:56 Comments || Top||

#30  Snicker
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/28/2022 15:17 Comments || Top||

#31  Leaked audio from war room:
"Hey Google, what rhymes with [redacted]?"
"Berkeley Harvey [redacted]."
Posted by: Crans Dribble3929 || 10/28/2022 15:31 Comments || Top||

#32  I love it when commenters wet themselves over a "writer" or "expert" that tells them what they want to hear.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/28/2022 15:35 Comments || Top||

#33  The giant tell "His CV proves he must be right..."

Ow...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/28/2022 15:35 Comments || Top||

#34  (holding up a hammer)
"What the fuck is this?"

"You're obviously not a golfer."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/28/2022 16:20 Comments || Top||

#35  $100 says it was a ghey hookup gone bad
Posted by: Crinenter Grinetle7467 || 10/28/2022 17:24 Comments || Top||

#36  Probably not far off.

I'll put a chip on the table:

Paul has had a day, maybe his Pfizer check cleared, has a couple drinks. About 11 he's like, "Know what would set this day and this buzz off...couple lines." Calls up one of his sources, DePape takes the call, shows up. Being etiquette and having a day, Paul lines them both up. Couple hours, couple more drinks and lines into it, Paul does something uncomfortable, maybe makes a move or suggestion, and sets off DePape. Cops get notified, panic button or something, make the 'wellness check' and break it all up.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/28/2022 17:51 Comments || Top||

#37  The "attacker" looks like one of Pelosi's Antifa types.
Posted by: Vinegar Noodleman7136 || 10/28/2022 18:09 Comments || Top||

#38  Something doesnt smell right with this story. There's a good chance they try to gaslight this into being something of a MAGA inspired act, something that makes the right look evil.

Was it a random welfare check on the Pelosi household at 2:35am? That would be odd.

#35 was saying gay hook up. I was looking at various articles and didnt see break and entering listed among the charges. IDK. But I was curious if Pelosi's husband might be Bi. Then we have reports this afternoon that the intruder was in his underwear. Ha. I was wondering too, if drugs might have been involved.
Posted by: mossomo || 10/28/2022 18:50 Comments || Top||

#39  For an 82 year old, he sure has an active after-midnight lifestyle.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/28/2022 18:57 Comments || Top||

#40  Sounds a lot like the life of the former Cravath law partner, David Schwartz, in the 1990s, who was murdered in one of his sleazy ghey hookups in a cheap motel off the interstate in Connecticut.

The great journalist James B. Stewart wrote about the secret life of Schwartz in the New Yorker:

“When the funeral service was over," wrote Stewart, "most Cravath partners appeared to be relieved that it had ended without further embarrassment to the firm." Here's why, wrote Stewart:

“For the unspeakable facts were these: David Schwartz was murdered. He was killed in a sleazy Bronx motel. He was stabbed by a black eighteen-year-old male. He appears to have been leading a secret double life of clandestine and often dangerous sexual encounters. So far as can be determined, no one at Cravath and no one in his family had known.”
Posted by: Crinenter Grinetle7467 || 10/28/2022 19:00 Comments || Top||

#41  * murdered in a a cheap motel off the interstate in on his way to his home in Connecticut.
Posted by: Crinenter Grinetle7467 || 10/28/2022 19:02 Comments || Top||

#42  #22 - The Lebowski ref really tickled me, thank you
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2022 20:43 Comments || Top||

#43  Andrew Gillum in his 70's
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2022 20:49 Comments || Top||

#44  The latest on the attacker has him as an illegal who has a long rap sheet including felonies.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/28/2022 20:58 Comments || Top||


Cheney endorses Michigan Democrat
[YAHOO] Republican Rep. Liz Cheney on Thursday endorsed and plans to campaign for Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, the first time that the critic of former President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, who lost her GOP primary, has crossed party lines to formally support a Democrat.
It must be a relief to be finally open about her inclinations. No doubt she is thinking of herself as another Ronald Reagan, who once made the trip in the opposite direction.
Cheney, of Wyoming, announced her support for the two-term House member from Holly, Michigan, in a statement by the Slotkin campaign that notes she plans to headline a campaign event with Slotkin in the Lansing-area district next Tuesday.

Slotkin is competing against Republican state Sen. Tom Barrett in Michigan's 7th Congressional District. Their race is considered a toss-up by both sides and one of the Republicans' chief targets in their campaign to win the House majority on Nov. 8.
Posted by: Fred || 10/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anyone still having any doubts about the Cheney family's true political direction.


BTW: Given her threats to run as an independent, supporting LSD agenda issues and hints of switching party's. Why is she still listed as a (R)?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/28/2022 8:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Why is she still listed as a (R)?

Because it supports the narrative, OMB. (orange man bad)
Posted by: AlanC || 10/28/2022 10:47 Comments || Top||

#3  (M)artyr
Posted by: Frank G || 10/28/2022 11:16 Comments || Top||

#4  "the first time that the critic of former President Donald Trump...has crossed party lines to formally support a Democrat."
I guess attacking the GOP candidate in AZ isn't exactly endorsing the DEM candidate but its the same thing.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/28/2022 11:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Go away you vile , petty bitch.
Posted by: Chris || 10/28/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe she should move to Michigan and run for Congress there as a Democrat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/28/2022 12:19 Comments || Top||

#7  I know, I know. I shouldn't give her any ideas.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/28/2022 12:20 Comments || Top||

#8  As sought after as the Kanye West endorsement is currently.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2022 12:21 Comments || Top||

#9  That is the kiss of death for that demoncrat
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/28/2022 18:44 Comments || Top||


Biden falsely says the price of gas was more than $5 when he took office
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
touted U.S. manufacturing gains Thursday on a trip to Syracuse – where he claimed gas prices were down compared to when he took office, when in fact they are higher.

'We're down $1.25 Since the peak this summer, and they've been falling for the last three weeks as well as well, and adding up real savings for families today.,' Biden said.

'The most common price of gas in America is $3.39 down from over $5 When I took office,' he continued.
I recall it hitting $2.19 around here.
The average cost of a gallon of gas on the AAA site was $3.76 Thursday. When he took office, it was averaging $2.39 – or about half what he said it was then – according to the Energy Information Institute.
Posted by: Fred || 10/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:



#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/28/2022 7:09 Comments || Top||

#4  I do remember >$5 gas at a station very near downtown Chicago a couple years ago during the early stages of the WuFlu pandemic.

Other than that, it was typically in the $2-$3 range, depending on local taxes. Diesel was about .60-.70 higher, about the same as premium.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/28/2022 7:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Recently escaped the Peoples Republic of Washington state and moved to Texas. The difference in gas prices is startling:

Average gas prices in WA: $5.35
Average gas prices in TX: $3.16


Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/28/2022 7:53 Comments || Top||

#6 
We were paying $2.97 a gallon before Biden pissed off the Saudi's ... its now $3.09
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/28/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Chevron Earnings Crush Estimates on Higher Oil and Gas Prices. The Stock Rises.

Market Open
$ 181.99
CVX
4.09
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/28/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Amazon and others

"The cavalry is coming."
~ Fox Business host Larry Kudlow

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/28/2022 9:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Joe's bid to put the oil companies out of business is working like all his other plans.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/28/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||

#10  California had $5 a gallon or near that, but then we pay a ton of gas tax.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/28/2022 11:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Everyone knows Biden's brain doesn't live here anymore. No one knows if it ever did.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/28/2022 11:21 Comments || Top||

#12  Like Billy Pilgrim, Joe is unstuck in time.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2022 12:20 Comments || Top||

#13  Under $2 for pure gasoline.

Its why all those stickers went up.

Little mash-up of price increases with those stickers shown, dated, this dialogue in the background, until that Summer Peak.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/28/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||


How long will Democratic voters continue to allow themselves to be treated like fools?
[NYPOST] "Biden-Fetterman 2024" was the assessment of one wag on Twitter after the car-crash debate performance of John Fetterman, the Democrats’ stroke-damaged Senate candidate in Pennsylvania.

"In 2022, a debate performance like [Fetterman’s] can accurately be called ’presidential,’ " quipped another.

Boom. Boom.

Why do Democrats insist on putting cognitively impaired people on the ticket? It’s cruel.

From a 79-year-old president who gets lost and goes wandering every time he gives a speech, to Fetterman, another special-needs candidate who could not utter a coherent sentence on stage against the GOP’s Dr. Mehmet Oz Tuesday evening, the ­sociopathic ruthlessness of the Democratic machine is on full display.

It’s cruel to dwell on Fetterman’s performance. However repellent his policies, the poor man had a debilitating stroke five months ago.

Suffice to say that, while the gaslighting Philadelphia Inquirer declared Fetterman the winner with flying colors, that says more about the newspaper’s contempt for its readers than it does about the reality.

OVERWHELMING POLL
A Twitter poll after the debate had Oz the winner by 82% of respondents. The betting markets similarly moved sharply against Fetterman.

The real question is: How long are Democratic voters going to continue to allow themselves to be treated like fools?

It was one thing to hide President Biden in a basement under cover of the pandemic, but Democrats want to turn that ruse into a playbook.
Posted by: Fred || 10/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As long as it takes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/28/2022 6:26 Comments || Top||


#3  Well considering they still believe the media is 100% accurate and true....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/28/2022 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  They are good little slaves and obedient to their masters. They wear their slave collar proudly.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/28/2022 7:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Too many believe having pols doing the stealing means they're not guilty of it themselves. Power for them is self rationalizing and self justifying.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/28/2022 8:40 Comments || Top||

#6 

Democrat Voters claiming to be Christians, Riddle me this.

How can any Reverend be a Democrat and support Abortions and the (D) supported abnormal perversions and still be a Man preaching the word of GOD?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/28/2022 9:16 Comments || Top||

#7  How can any Reverend ...

Because they are forgiven.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/28/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||

#8  How can anyone like to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi Reverend in the first place.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/28/2022 9:55 Comments || Top||

#9  As long as they're dead.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/28/2022 10:49 Comments || Top||

#10  There's only 3 reasons to support Democrats:
1) You're as corrupt as they are;
2) You're not personally corrupt, but you're willing to ride along to get your own personal hobbyhorse wishes fulfilled;
3) You're too f***ing stupid to realize how corrupt they are;
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/28/2022 11:03 Comments || Top||

#11  As long as they are fools.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/28/2022 11:05 Comments || Top||

#12  Beat me too it Ed.
Posted by: Chris || 10/28/2022 11:49 Comments || Top||

#13  That is like pointing out that you always find something in the last place you look. Dems who discover that their party is terrible, leave the party and are no longer counted as Dems. The remaining Dems are either corrupt or dumb enough to continue after they have achieved their goal. JB is an example of both corruption and stupidity.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2022 12:11 Comments || Top||


Former Acting AG Whitaker says Hunter Biden was targeted in 'Chinese intelligence mission'
[FoxNews] Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker weighs in on the latest developments in the House Oversight Committee's investigation into Hunter Biden's ties to China.

Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said the new developments out of the investigation into Hunter Biden's business dealings are "very damaging" for the president. On "Fox & Friends First" Thursday, Whitaker argued the "shocking" evidence being sent to the U.S. attorney shows that China was trying to gather information on the Biden family.
Video of interview at the link.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  Not much of a hard target. Kind of like playing cornhole with lidless garage trash cans or shooting down a dirigible with CIWS.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Then there's those rumors of videos of Hunter and Joe with maidens of tender years....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/28/2022 16:27 Comments || Top||


Report: Joe Biden Made Secret Saudi Deal to Ease Gas Prices Right Before Midterm Elections
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden and his administration worked extensively to work out a secret deal with Saudi Arabia to ease oil and gas prices right before the midterm elections, even though the Saudis ultimately backtracked.

Biden officials scrambled to convince the Saudis not to cut oil production before the midterm elections and thought they had succeeded once Biden agreed to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Biden officials pushed for the Saudis to accelerate production in July and August and additional increases from September to December, which would significantly impact oil production ahead of the midterms.

Details of the deal were revealed by the New York Times:

First, the Saudis would accelerate an OPEC Plus production increase of 400,000 barrels per day already planned for September, moving it to July and August. Then the Saudis would get the cartel to announce a further production increase of 200,000 barrels per day for each month from September to December of this year.

On June 2, OPEC Plus announced they would move up the production increase scheduled for September — fulfilling the first part of the secret deal.

Team Biden soothed concerns from furious Democrats with details of the oil deal, the Times reports, after the White House would meet with the Saudis despite Biden promising to treat them as a “pariah” during his campaign.

Although Biden and the White House repeatedly said his trip to Saudi Arabia was not about the price of oil, details of the deal reveal how much of a priority it actually was to the administration.

But the deal that Biden and his team constructed blew up in their face.

OPEC+ announced only a boost of 100,000 barrels a day in August, and in September they announced they would cut production by 100,000 barrels.

In October, OPEC+ shocked Biden officials after they announced they would actually cut production by two million gallons a day instead of increasing production.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  The CIA is planning the color revolution in Saudi Arabia right now. It will take a while to get organized, but I'd look for it in 3-6 months. Will it succeed like the Ukraine coup of 2014 or will it fail like the Venezuela coup of 2002? Only time will tell!
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 10/28/2022 2:45 Comments || Top||

#2  The CIA is planning the color revolution in Saudi Arabia right now.

Care to share anything to substantiate that, or is it simply projection?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/28/2022 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  freezing nearly a trillion in assets would be a good start at that color revolution.
Posted by: Chris || 10/28/2022 11:51 Comments || Top||

#4  If the CIA is planning a Saudi overthrow, their team better not include anyone in the Biden team that was caught by surprise when their election scam failed. The administration has demonstrated a total lack of ability to predict Saudi policy. The most cogent CIA op parallel to a misunderstanding of prevailing conditions would be the Bay of Pigs debacle.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/28/2022 11:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Wouldn't be surprised if the Soddies led Biden down the garden path, making him think they would go along with this scheme, then backing out of it and going public with the details just to make Biden look like the corrupt fool that he is.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/28/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#6  don’t impeach him. khashoggi the ol’ perv
Posted by: Cletch Clunk7954 || 10/28/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Ref #4: The Bay of Pigs debacle was only one of many, up to and including Benghazi, the more recent Jeffrey Epstein affair, the Wuhan mystery, the Hunter laptop, the war on Trump, and the Ukraine mess.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/28/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||



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