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Spin Zone / Surviving Obama's Third Term
« on: November 04, 2023, 04:58:04 PM »
https://canadafreepress.com/article/surviving-obamas-third-term






Surviving Obama's Third Term

 

Ray DiLorenzo


"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."  Napoleon

 

It should be no mystery to anyone that Biden is not in charge.  He is incapable of being in command of anything. While Biden eats ice cream and lounges at the beach, Obama is calling the shots.  Many of the usual suspects are in their positions as they were during the anti-America Obama years, especially Susan Rice. 

In November 2020, Obama said to Stephen Colbert:

“If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a frontman or frontwoman, and they had an earpiece in, and I was just in my basement in my sweats, looking through the stuff, then deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking, I’d be fine with that.”  

Obama was the man who set race relations back decades, appeased Iran, energized Antifa, BLM, and the likes of Soros. He turned the FBI, the DOJ, the IRS, and anti-terrorist programs developed after 9/11 inward against the American people. It became apparent that Islamists enjoyed a preference under Obama. The Obama administration gave money and technology to Iran, aiding a global jihadist movement. Islamists make up 2.4% of the population, but commit over 60% of hate crimes.  He demonized Trump with false charges that continue today.  Obama was the true Manchurian candidate.  


Obama made it simple for himself.  Along with Soros, they created a deep state in Washington and much of the country, especially in the big cities. They are only loyal to the Democrat Party.  Some of the fruits of that are the constant harassment of Trump. After Obama left the presidency, he bought a house in Washington, D.C., almost unheard of in presidential history, so he could be near, of all people, Susan Rice, Biden's domestic policy advisor.  She, along with Hillary, are the poster children for Benghazi.  Rice was also heavily involved in spying on the Trump transition team. She's a perfect match for both Obama and Biden; she has no core values.  I would think the phone lines between the White House and Obama's house are a constant hum. Reports of her stepping down from her post are meaningless.  They have something else on tap.  

 

You can 'credit' Biden with some activities.  Showing the welcome wagon to trans people in the White House, some of them partially naked, his lecherous activities only Biden can come up with are legendary. He demonstrates an almost complete lack of moral values, touching everything and watching it turn to sh*t, the collecting of millions of dollars from political operatives world-wide for access—now that's our Biden.   

The $6 billion to Iran, the lukewarm support for Israel, much of it for the press and public consumption, the total disregard for immigration law, the dismantling of our military, giving up on energy independence, probably a first in world history, the spending to oblivion, has Obama written all over it. The Obama-Biden nuclear deal to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons is a farce.  Let's not forget Obama's global mentality, looking to a new world order without the hassle of Americans living in freedom, voters, or people traveling around to and fro uncontrolled.  


I never thought the 'good ole days' would be such a recent memory in our past—not quite 3 years ago. We had peace, security, energy independence, cheap gas, and a border more secure than it ever had been, and it was getting even better.  We had jobs galore, industry was coming back, people were buying homes, and pride in America was renewed.  It was not a perfect time; none are, but Trump was learning fast.  All he needed was a loyal administration that put America first (which the rot from the DemoRAT globalist elites ensured he never had...    Ed).  When America is put first, the world wins.  

 

Of course, we still had the Left, the perpetually unhappy, pissed-off Democrat-Socialist Left, that endlessly groans that our democracy is in danger and the 2016 election was stolen from them.  


In 2016, with the media en masse predicting a Hillary win, the Democrats attempted to rig the election.  Clinton wanted insurance, with democracy being the last thing on her mind. In preparation for the 2016 US election, the Obama administration gave the CIA instructions to turn over a surveillance supercomputer to the FBI and others. They possessed the computer, The Hammer, and the software, Scorecard. They just didn't get the algorithm right, resulting in not enough votes being flipped. Hillary sent an email to Donna Brazile on 10/17/2016 warning, “If that (explicative deleted) Bastard wins, we all hang from nooses….” They miscalculated how popular Trump was.  They received the popular vote but not the necessary number of electoral votes. 

 

You can read in further detail what they were up to in our new book, 'Invisible Treason in America.'

The computer system was used again in 2020 without the past mistakes.  In fact, it was too good.  They became paranoid, creating so many votes for Biden that, in many precincts, they ended up with more votes than voters.  When the vote counting ceased midway through the evening of election night, millions of Americans suspected that something was amiss, that they might have lost their country to a criminal cabal unlike anything we have ever seen. You have to put yourself in the situation when it happened. COVID was on everyone's mind.  Election laws were ignored; there was a mass mailing of ballots to God knows where and who. We were losing control of the election before it had even begun.  All according to plan. 

When the counting had concluded, we found Biden, the candidate who didn't campaign, could not get 50 supporters in the same room, could not speak the truth if it was on a cue card, a man with the social habits of a 14-year-old, won more votes than any presidential candidate in our history.


Trump's presidency, like every other administration, was not without its flaws. Donald Trump was the first president to be elected without holding any prior political office.  He had much to learn about the duplicity in Washington.  Trump trusted some of the wrong people—Fauci,  for sure. He tried to clean up the mess, but was fought every step of the way by the opposition and many of his own people.  His approach to many issues could seem somewhat awkward by DC standards, if there is such a thing.  He was a businessman, and like many in business, he reminded America that the business of America is business.  And for Trump, business is only successful if it benefits all parties.

Unlike the Communist Party USA's slogan, "People and Planet Before Profits," Trump again reminded America that there is nothing for people or the planet without profits.  

 

Trump was unpredictable.  It drove our enemies and the Democrats crazy.  His opposition could not understand that, to our enemies, being unpredictable was a strength, not a weakness. Instead, we had General Milley, who took it upon himself to tell his counterparts in China that he would secretly give them a personal phone call, warning them if they were about to be attacked.  So, China had their man in the Joint Chiefs. He should have been removed and arrested for treason.

It's only been three years ago that our nation enjoyed world-wide respect and fear—yes, fear—from our enemies.  North Korea was quiet, Russia was quiet, and the Middle East was very quiet. They were beginning to conclude that peace was something they could achieve without war.  Not a peep from China except for complaints of a trade war and industry coming back to the USA.  They were also somewhat concerned that their industrial thieving might be coming to an end. The southern border was at a trickle pace.


NATO was also a bit taken back by it all.  They were getting indications from Trump that the free ride was over. They were actually worried that they were going to have to pony up for their own defense. 

The globalists? Well, they were given a lesson in American patriotism when Trump told them that we would never be a socialist nation and that our national sovereignty would be defended. 

Inevitably, they all ganged up on Trump.  Make America Great Again was not to be tolerated in the one-world order they are working to achieve.

 

The Israeli-Hamas War has shown the blatant weakness of the Democrat Party and most of the Left—antisemitism.  The world has now seen it; the genie is out of the bottle and can't be put back. The Left is protesting, even rioting, against Israel for defending themselves, calling for the death of Jews. Many Jewish-Americans will probably think again about their party affiliation, with many independents moving to the right.  

Entering the last year of Obama's third term, it's clear we have become a free-for-all society in moral, social, and legal terms. Laws are either ignored or chosen for whom they will touch. Their Green New Deal is falling apart. No one wants windmills, buying solar, their kitchen appliances taken away, or electric cars, even with a $7000 government discount. Our spending is putting us in a very dangerous financial position. China's carbon emissions get ignored while everyone else gets hassled to death. 


The Democrats are making big mistakes, thinking we will just go along. Wrong! To survive this administration, we are going to have to be patient.  The next 12 months will be unlike anything we have ever seen.  But Americans are waking up. Become active in your local communities.  Insist on honest elections, vote for pro-America candidates, and support our conservative organizations that are working hard to restore America.  To be sure, the Globalist Democrat Party will go too far.  When they do, allow the Left to do what they do best—screw up. 

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https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/28/georgia-da-offers-nothingburger-plea-deals-to-build-parade-of-witnesses-for-later-show-trials/

Georgia DA Offers ‘Nothingburger’ Plea Deals To Build Parade Of Witnesses For Later Show Trials


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In the past week, the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis finalized “plea agreements” with three significant members of the group of 18 co-defendants indicted in Willis’ rambling Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (“RICO”) case filed this past August against former President Donald Trump and others.

The pleas were with three prominent lawyers in the post-2020 election challenges: Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis. Each was charged with multiple felonies, including the lead RICO count, carrying potential maximum penalties of many years of incarceration. The indictment purports to allege serious felonies based on serious wrongdoing that supposedly threatened the very fabric of our democracy, but you wouldn’t think so from the actual deals Willis struck.

There is no legitimate prosecutorial reason for Willis to have struck these particular deals.  Rather, these deals are designed to bolster the perceived, but not the real, strength of her case against the key defendants, both now, via the media, and later, by parading a string of “guilty” co-defendants as witnesses before the jury.

Prosecutors Dropped Charges and Jail Time
Powell pleaded guilty to seven misdemeanors and no felonies, and the prosecutors moved to dismiss the seven felonies, including the RICO count they had charged against her. Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony and the prosecutors moved to dismiss the remaining six felonies they had charged him with in the indictment, including the RICO count. Ellis pleaded guilty to a newly tailored felony count of aiding and abetting another defendant (Rudy Guiliani) in his alleged making of a false statement, and the prosecutors moved to dismiss the two felonies charged against her, including the RICO count.

Thus, none of these three defendants pleaded guilty to the most serious charges against them. Far, far from it. Further, in all three deals, the prosecutors agreed not to oppose “First Offender” treatment for the cases under a Georgia statute that permits a judge to accept guilty pleas from those with no prior criminal records, and then later remove the conviction from their record entirely if they satisfactorily complete conditions of probation.

The prosecutors also agreed to recommend probation-only sentences to the court in all three cases, which the judge duly imposed. None of these three defendants will spend one day in jail or have a conviction on their records for their role in supposedly undermining American democracy itself.

When a prosecutor charges multiple, serious felonies and offers plea deals for significantly less serious charges, carrying no jail time, and the opportunity to have the entire case cleared off the defendant’s record, it is usually a clear sign that the prosecutor has overcharged the case and was not going to be able to prove the charges as alleged if forced to go to trial on them.

Deals Too Sweet to Turn Down
Prosecutors are simply not in the habit of developing serious felony cases and then offering plea deals that amount to a legal “nothingburger” for the defendants involved. Even when trying to “flip” defendants to testify against others in the case, the normal prosecutorial practice is to still require some significant pain in the plea deal with cooperating defendants because if they don’t, then the defense lawyers for the defendants who go to trial can argue to the jury that the deals are so sweet they shouldn’t believe a word the flipped defendants are saying.

That is not what is happening with the plea deals in Trump’s Georgia case, however. These deals with Powell, Chesebro, and Ellis are really, really sweet deals. Deals so sweet that no rational defense lawyer could advise the client to reject them.

The prosecutors even agreed to ask the judge to include language in the sentencing order that said the charges to which they were pleading were not crimes of “moral turpitude,” because such crimes can make it more likely that a defendant who is a lawyer will lose their law license. These prosecutors did everything that could be done to craft these pleas in such a way that the defendants simply could not turn them down.

This extreme and unusual solicitude extended even to sculpting the factual basis for the guilty pleas, another area where prosecutors normally require the defendants to swallow bitter medicine, but did not in these pleas. This had to be done because in order for a plea to be accepted by the court, the defendant has to agree not just to plead guilty in the abstract, but rather that he or she is guilty of a specific crime based on specific facts. And the prosecutors and defense lawyers, (and defendants who are lawyers) cannot outright lie to the court about what the facts are on which the plea is based, or whether those facts constitute the offense to which the person is pleading.

The factual basis that the prosecutors presented to the judge in the plea hearing in each of these cases was clearly massaged to allow the defendants to honestly agree that the stated facts were true, but unusually here those facts did not make out the elements of the charged offense, or they omitted facts which might have caused a judge to question whether the offense was, in fact, established.

In Ellis’ case, this manipulation was taken to a ridiculous level. Her guilty plea was one in name only. She never admitted that she knew that the allegedly false statements were false at the time they were made, which is a fundamental requirement for a criminal false statement. Rather, she said that “if she knew then what she knows now,” she would have acted differently.

Even her assertion that she failed to do “due diligence” at the time is not “reckless disregard for the truth” under the normal legal understanding of that term. It is also extremely unlikely that a merely “reckless” statement would satisfy the Georgia false statements statute, which requires a “knowing and willful” false statement.

Significantly, the prosecutor’s factual basis did not say that the seven statements made by Guiliani were false due to contrary facts. For example, it was determined to not be true that 10,315 or more dead people voted in Georgia. Rather, the factual basis offered to the judge was only that Georgia’s investigations had determined there was no “widespread fraud” that “could have affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.”

A Transaction, Not a Favor
In reality, Ellis’ plea was a farce. It was a concoction between the prosecutors’ office and her counsel to “find something” she could plead to that they could smuggle past a judge who wouldn’t critically question an agreed plea deal (although that is supposed to be one of the court’s roles in that situation).

The prosecutors in this case went to these extreme lengths for an unusual reason. They aren’t doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. It’s a transaction. They are getting something they can’t otherwise get. And the reason the prosecutor can’t get it from witnesses — without the deal — is that defendants have a 5th Amendment right to be silent at trial.

Prosecutors cannot call any defendant as a witness in trial, even if they only want them to incriminate others, not themselves. The only way prosecutors can get juicy testimony from these witnesses is to do a deal with them: a plea deal if they have been charged, or potentially an immunity deal such as the one that Special Counsel Jack Smith allegedly struck with Mark Meadows last week in Trump’s DC federal case.

But that is not what is going on in the Georgia case. These three defendants will not give the prosecution any testimony or evidence that the prosecutors don’t already have from non-charged witnesses, or the statements, documents, and memos previously authored by all of these defendants, which are admissible at the trial already. The testimony of Powell, Chesebro, and Ellis is extremely unlikely to add anything new to the case. It is highly doubtful any of them will testify that they or Trump or any of the other many lawyers involved said, knew, or believed they were doing something illegal at the time of the events in 2020 and early 2021.

It’s for this reason that Trump and his lawyers this week made only mild statements about these pleas, or pointed out that if the three testified truthfully, as required under their plea deals, it would not hurt Trump and may even help him.

‘Guilty’ Witnesses Don’t Need to Testify
Some might think that the prosecutors could present the fact that these defendants plead guilty to the jury at later trials as proof of the guilt of defendants who go to trial. However, Supreme Court precedent forbids the direct use of the guilty pleas of witnesses to prove that other defendants who go to trial are also guilty. The prosecutors will not tell the jury something like, “Ms. Ellis plead guilty to helping Mr. Guiliani make a false statement and that is evidence that he did make a false statement.” Nor can prosecutors simply introduce the fact of the guilty pleas or documents about the guilty pleas as exhibits in the trials of other defendants.

These practices violate the rights of the defendants going to trial to confront their accusers under the 5th Amendment, but they also do not constitute relevant evidence of the guilt of the person on trial. The fact that one person agrees that their conduct is illegal in a plea deal doesn’t prove that another person is guilty, even in conspiracy or aiding and abetting scenarios, and thus the courts don’t permit prosecutors to prove their cases this way.

So, in short, there is no legal reason for Willis to have entered into these kinds of super-sweet pleas with these defendants in this case. But she did so. And the reason Willis did so is that in practical reality, if/when Trump or Guiliani or Eastman come to trial in this case, she will do covertly what the law doesn’t permit her to do overtly.

The prosecutors won’t argue to the jury that Trump, Guiliani, or Eastman are guilty because Powell, Chesebro, and Ellis, (and potentially others by then) plead guilty. They won’t have to argue that. They will simply parade a line of witnesses who have all pleaded guilty to something in this case before the jury. The jury will get the message.

And thus, the true purpose of these nothing burger pleas is revealed: not to acquire evidence to present, but to create a guilty parade, now, and in the show trial to come.


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Spin Zone / "War Time" President
« on: October 21, 2023, 07:09:45 AM »

  Lots of speculation swirling around that the FJB regime inner circle has determined that historically war time presidents get re-elected.

  I wouldn't put it past them.

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Spin Zone / Our Post-Hamas Wreckage- Victor Davis Hanson
« on: October 17, 2023, 03:16:33 AM »
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Famgreatness.com%2F2023%2F10%2F16%2Four-post-hamas-wreckage%2F



Our Post-Hamas Wreckage

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As Hamas goes, so with it go many of the following related Western pretensions.

The Passions of 9/11, Redux

It has been 22 years since we saw crowds throughout the Middle East celebrating the murder of 3,000 civilians—and since newspapers had daily “idiot watch” notices of American intellectuals defending radical Islamist mass murderers. And now the madness is back again, and we are witnessing the recrudescence of normalizing radical Islamic terrorists abroad.

I suppose the theory is that no one in America cares much about radical Islamists foaming at the mouth, whether abroad or here. And the result is that they are empowered and their defense of murder is growing—yet its hubris will earn an almost-certain response, an anger slowly but insidiously growing at radical Islam.

A Middle East Policy in Ruins

The current Biden appeasement of Iran and gift of billions of dollars in aggregate to the West Bank and Gaza are now, by bipartisan consensus, unsustainable. The only supporters of that lethal madness left are the embarrassments of BLM, the Squad, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the campus crowd.

Their collective hatred of Jews and Israelis was manifested in their delight over the post mortem mutilations of murdered women and children. And why—even before Israel had responded with air attacks—were leftists and Islamists suddenly celebrating the news of the executions of more than 1,200 Jews? It was instinctual, a Pavlovian response.

Even some leftist Democrats were shocked by their own constituents, whom they had created. Biden still might cling to his past destructive Middle East policies (and I expect him to restrict the Israelis within days after they begin to go in full force into Gaza), but the idea of continuing aid to the West Bank and Gaza or of “normalizing” relations with theocratic Iran will now be rightly seen as a suicidal delusion.

Ukraine and Gaza

Most Americans support arms for Ukraine to repel Russian aggressors.

But something is becoming strange about these two respective wars.

Why did the State Department more or less put no restrictions on Ukrainian retaliation, including operations against the Russian Black Sea Fleet—but the Secretary of State almost immediately called for a “ceasefire” to prevent Israeli retaliation, a mortal sin if he had dared say that about Ukraine’s similar response to aggression? Would an American diplomat lecture Ukraine about ending the “cycle of violence?”

Why does the U.S. discount any possibility of a strategic response from Russia—which reportedly has some 6,000-7,000 nuclear weapons—to attacks on its homeland, but seems almost terrified about calling Iran to account for its central role in arming and funding terrorists to start a war with Israel by slaughtering 1,200 civilians?

Is the U.S., as professed, really able to fund a $120 billion—and counting—war in Ukraine, and to replenish Israeli stocks (300,000 artillery shells shipped from U.S. depots in Israel to Ukraine, a reportedly mere one-month supply for Kyiv), and to restore depleted existing U.S. munitions (note the billions of dollars of equipment abandoned in Kabul), and to ramp up our forces to deter China (while allowing 8 million illegal aliens to flow across an open border and $33 trillion in national debt) without going on a massive war footing?

There are likely somewhere between 600,000 and 800,000 total wounded and dead in Ukraine, in the most lethal conflict in Europe since 1945. Why is the U.S. so eager to call for a ceasefire after a fraction of those casualties in Gaza, but it is near-taboo to mention a breather amid the historical carnage, with no end in sight, in Ukraine?

The administration always says we can do everything simultaneously, but then we never do. Rhetoric is not the same thing as trebling our arms supply chain, and cutting the budget elsewhere to pay for it, and closing our border.

The Biden Open Border

Given the common denominator of Russian and Gazan invading forces crossing poorly fortified borders, why would we not secure our own—far longer and less secure than either?

The Biden border nihilism is now a losing proposition even for the leftists who helped promote it. Biden is eroding the very base of the Democratic Party, by alienating inner-city and border-district minorities. They are irate at the hordes of people stampeding into the country with the assumption that breaking our laws is their birthright.

Even the daily mendacity of Alejandro Mayorkas and Karine Jean-Pierre cannot hide the brazen contempt for the law. Every day that the border remains open and thousands more pour in unaudited, illegally, without skills, in non-diverse fashion, and with cartel fentanyl—to the cheers of the corrupt socialist President Obrador of Mexico—the more Joe Biden is destroying his own party.

The ruin in Gaza only reminds Americans that under present policies we will soon see thousands of America-hating, anti-Semitic Gazans seeking to pour into the United States illegally, eager to join the mass demonstrations cheering on Hamas death squads. It seems to take about a month for a radical Middle Eastern refugee, having arrived with gratitude toward his new American hosts, to take to the street on a “Day of Jihad” calling for the end of Israel (and often damning America).

Allies as Enemies

Abroad, we are finally accepting the long-suppressed reality that many of our “allies” are not neutrals but enemies. The U.S. bases in Qatar and Turkey, and our indifference to the pro-Hamas sentiments, if not outright aid, of both, have empowered terrorism.

Ever so slowly, the two anti-American nations are reminding Americans that we need to draw down our forces from these hostile landscapes, which in any global crisis would likely be hostile territory for our own troops.

Everyone knows Erdogan’s Turkey has no business in NATO—and everyone has no idea how to get them out. And so everyone puts an asterisk over Turkey as a NATO member. For now, the alliance’s only Islamist, non-democratic, and anti-Western nation is best simply avoided, since expelling Turkey appears to be more trouble than tolerating its toxic presence.

The Palestinian State Solution

The Left’s shrill demand for a “two-state” solution, and tolerance of Palestinian tired and serial threats to drive Israel into the sea, are for now over. The glee with which Gazans and West Bankers met the news of mass murder, mutilation, hostage-taking, rape, and the desecration of bodies is proof enough that these dictatorial governments probably do represent the majority of their citizens.

Most Gazans were giddy on hearing of the macabre methods of Hamas, and only wished that there had been more opportunity to spit on hostages, poke captive women, kick corpses, and torment the child and female trophies brought back from Israel. The Gazan delight in the grotesque was reminiscent of some medieval pogrom, or the Roman triumphs of old with their files of enslaved captives. And perhaps the desire to take captives and pass them back through the killing fields to Gaza reminds of the Aztec practice of seeking to capture rather than just kill their enemies, in order to have plenty of bodies for the human sacrifices on Templo Major.

The old idea of Gaza—self-governed since 2005-2006 by “one man, one vote, once” Hamas—as a possible “Singapore” with Hyatt and Four Seasons beaches, flush with hundreds of billions of dollars from the Gulf, Europe, the U.S. and the UN, is finally revealed as the farce it always was. That fantasy was simply antithetical to the Hamas nihilist charter, the logical manifestation of which was the slaughter inside Israel of hundreds of civilians.

BLM

BLM was always a corrupt, disingenuous operation—the craftier successor to the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton 1980s corporate shake-downs. But it is has finally jumped the shark with its sick support for Hamas murderers (note its recent posters glorifying Hamas’s hang-gliding butchery).

Its pro-death advocacy of Hamas is the pièce de résistance to the corruption and abdication of its leadership, the Kendi-con, and the lethal crime wave it helped spawn in major cities. Its racist agendas may linger for a while. But BLM is going the way of the 1960s Black Panthers—that is, one leading to general disgust, then to irrelevance, and finally to nothingness.

The still-remaining BLM murals in our major downtowns are already embarrassments and eroding reminders of the insanity that swept the country from 2020 to the present.

Campuses

Universities have now crossed the Rubicon in de facto condoning their crazed students cheering on mass death. They made the argument after George Floyd that the country must listen to their pseudo-moral lectures, and now they unashamedly broadcast what they have become—traitors to the idea of an enlightened free society, and kindred spirits to the anti-Semitism, intolerance, and fascism of 1930s German universities.

Degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Stanford will soon become, not resume badges, but either embarrassments or certifications of a mediocre education. Or both.

Universities all rushed to embrace “decolonization”, starting with empty and ahistorical virtue signals and ending up paralyzed, as thousands of their own students showed the world how ecstatic they were over news that babies were murdered and women raped.

In response, their invertebrate administrators and faculty sat frozen for days, calculating how best to issue “on the one hand…on the other hand” mush. The first serious politician who calls for the taxing of the huge incomes of their endowments, for yanking the government out of the student loan business and returning the moral hazard to the universities who impoverish their own students, will win overwhelming support.

The Gaza of Hamas is going down, but so are a lot of corrupt institutions and ideas that threw in with its lot.

I would recommend against the Nazi reference: the Nazis didn’t deny knowledge of atrocities until *after the war*, making them a bad contrast to current Palestinians.

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Spin Zone / Kari Lake enters bid to run for Arizona Senate seat
« on: October 04, 2023, 06:46:49 AM »
If you want to see more proof of just how fucked up the republicans are, read on.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fsenate%2Fkari-lake-launches-arizona-senate-campaign-2024

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Kari Lake is running for Senate in 2024, filing paperwork on Tuesday to enter the already fiery competition for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's (I-AZ) seat.

The paperwork came the same day Lake met with Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) at the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington, D.C., a source familiar told the Washington Examiner.


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On Monday, Daines appeared to give Lake advice about entering the Senate race.

Voters "do not want to hear about grievances from the past," Daines said in a CNN interview. "They want to hear about what you're going to do for the future. And if our candidates stay on that message of looking down the highway versus the rearview mirror, I think they'll be a lot more successful, particularly in their appeal to independent voters, which usually decide elections."

Lake's hard-line conservative views have caused establishment Arizona Republicans to fear a repeat of 2022, where several hard-line Republicans beat centrist GOP candidates in the primaries but lost to Democrats in the general election. Several of those who lost their elections push claims of voter fraud, similar to Trump's reaction when he lost the 2020 election.


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Spin Zone / Tucker Carlson interviews Victor Davis Hanson
« on: October 02, 2023, 07:21:31 PM »
33 minutes long, but well worth the watch

Ep. 27  Donald Trump appeared in court today, but it wasn’t a legal proceeding. It was a grotesque parody of the system our ancestors created. Victor Davis Hanson explains.


https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1708986264588791862

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Spin Zone / Democrat Jamaal Bowman Pulls Fire Alarm on Cannon Building
« on: September 30, 2023, 02:13:03 PM »

 If Speaker McCarthy (RINO-CA) had any balls whatsoever, he would have this perp arrested and press charges.


https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/democrat-jamaal-bowman-pulls-fire-alarm-cannon-building/

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On Saturday New York Democrat Representative Jamaal Bowman pulled the fire alarm in the Cannon Building to shut down Congress.

Bowman pulled the alarm to prevent a critical vote to keep the government open.

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Spin Zone / McLoser will pivot left on budget
« on: September 30, 2023, 09:25:19 AM »
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/30/congress/house-gop-eyes-deal-00119259

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Speaker Kevin McCarthy(RINO-CA) is pushing the House toward a last-minute escape hatch from a government shutdown before Sunday's deadline— one that will require support from Democrats and potentially endanger his gavel.

After a private House Republican meeting on Saturday morning to try to figure out spending strategy, GOP leaders announced they would push ahead with a 45-day stopgap spending bill to avert a shutdown and allow them more time to pass their own full-year spending bills.

Executing that plan would require help from a significant swath of Democrats — the exact scenario under which conservatives have threatened to try to end McCarthy's speakership.

“If I have to risk my job for standing up for the American public, I will do that," McCarthy said. He had previously likened a vote on such a clean funding patch, without border policy changes or any other conservative provisions, to surrender.

The House will vote on the short-term funding patch under rules that require two-thirds support for passage. Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) has conveyed to fellow leaders that the GOP lacks the votes on its own side of the aisle to pass any short-term stopgap bill without looking to Democrats, but the bill is likely to get the support it needs to pass from the opposing party.

McCarthy's latest 45-day idea had presented Democrats with a tough choice: whether to support government funding without Ukraine aid. In the end, Democratic leaders are expected not to whip the vote.

The speaker's shift in strategy comes less than 24 hours before a shutdown that's set to begin at midnight Sunday. And it comes with significant political risk for the Californian, who's facing threats to try to strip McCarthy's gavel.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who has led that charge against the speaker, has vowed to force a vote on removing McCarthy if a “clean” short-term funding measure came to the floor. He indicated on Saturday that he would need to consult with his allies about the status of a forced ouster vote, if the clean funding patch were to pass.

McCarthy argued during a private conference meeting on Friday night that putting a short-term funding bill on the table would “dare” Democrats to support something that lacked Ukraine aid.

“I think if we had a clean one without Ukraine, we would probably be able to move it through,” McCarthy told reporters afterward.

Part of GOP leadership’s effort to woo the holdouts included a calendar unveiled during the conference meeting that outlined plans to move nearly all of the rest of House Republicans' full-year spending bills — none of which have a chance at passing the Senate in their current form.

House Republicans have passed four individual spending bills so far, leaving eight to go.

But two of the Republicans who have talked the loudest about potentially ousting McCarthy — Gaetz and Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) — were two of the first people to leave that Friday night meeting.

House GOP leadership is also racing with the Senate to see which chamber can clear a stopgap funding bill first. Senators are expected to vote on Saturday afternoon to advance a bill that would fund the government through Nov. 17 and give additional aid to Ukraine.

“If we can operationally get another stopgap out of the House ... before [senators] act, that’s our best option,” McHenry said Friday evening after the House GOP meeting.

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Spin Zone / The Chief RINO Speaks
« on: September 28, 2023, 01:17:45 AM »
This low life slimy piece of aquatic shit still thinks he's relevant, just like his partner Pierre Delecto.

On the second article he left out that he and the other republican scumbags will work to get a democrat elected if DJT is the nominee. 

His finger prints are all over FoxNews' pivot to the left.



https://news.yahoo.com/paul-ryan-says-republicans-look-134919536.html

Paul Ryan says Republicans ‘look like fools’ with shutdown looming

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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (RINO-Wis.) criticized Republican lawmakers over their inability to agree on spending bills as the Oct. 1 government shutdown deadline draws closer.

“It’s nihilism, is what it is,” Ryan said during an event in Wisconsin. “We look like fools. We look like we can’t govern.”

A handful of Republican hard-liners have refused to agree on spending, preventing the chamber from passing a short-term funding measure to avoid a shutdown. Infighting within the House GOP has been happening for weeks, with current Speaker Kevin McCarthy (RINO-Calif.) unable to make either side happy.

On Tuesday night, House Republicans were able to advanced four of the 12 full-year appropriations bills. While it does nothing to avert a shutdown later this week, McCarthy hopes it will build momentum toward passing a short-term funding bill.

https://news.yahoo.com/former-speaker-paul-ryan-says-003127750.html

Former Speaker Paul Ryan says Republicans will lose if Donald Trump is nominee


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (RINO-WI) said Tuesday that Republicans will lose the presidential election if Donald Trump is the nominee and that he expects hard-right followers of Trump to force a government shutdown within days.

Ryan, who left office in 2019 and had a sometimes contentious relationship with Trump, said he hoped that another Republican nominee would gain enough momentum early next year to overtake Trump after the first primaries. Ryan represented southeastern Wisconsin in Congress for 20 years, the last four as speaker.

"The party that puts the first fresh face forward wins this election," Ryan said at an event on the University of Wisconsin campus organized by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.

If the race is between Trump and President Joe Biden, Ryan said, “I think Biden wins.”

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She gets it.

And she is 100% right.   The feckless spineless republicans need to start focusing on winning, and stop giving concessions.

 Gracious fucking losers.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/victoria-spartz-mccarthy-house-gop-fail

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Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) attacked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for failing Republicans twice in legislative battles, saying if he failed House Republicans a third time, she would be "done."

House Republicans remain stalled over passing a stopgap funding measure needed to fund the government past the Sept. 30 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown.

AS GOP WRESTLES WITH SPENDING DEAL, WILL HOUSE DEMOCRATS COME TO THEIR AID?

Spartz, one of the Republicans who pledged to vote "no" on the original stopgap funding measure that was released over the weekend, said McCarthy is going to fail the GOP if he is not willing to fight for its concerns.

“If he is not willing to fight — fight and win — then he is going to fail Republicans,” Spartz told Politico. “He is going to be tested one more time. From my perspective, he’s already failed us twice. The third time, I’m done. … I judge people not on what they say, but the results. We need to win something.”

McCarthy unveiled an updated proposal on Wednesday for the stopgap spending measure that swayed some of the holdouts' opinions. The updated proposal includes an agreed-upon top-line number for the budget, something that hard-line House Republicans have pushed for to support the measure.

However, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) claimed at least seven Republicans planned to vote against the measure.

When opposing the original stopgap spending measure, which was issued on Sunday, Spartz blamed the Republican-controlled House for "failing the American people again" and blasted McCarthy’s “lack of real leadership.”

The second-term congresswoman did not confirm if she would vote "yes" on the updated proposal, sending a message to the House speaker that Republicans need a win.

McCarthy has suffered a series of setbacks in his leadership, from struggling to pass the debt ceiling deal to the latest continuing resolution negotiations, leading to a rise in talks about forcing a vote to oust him. While House Republican leadership continues to debate over the short-term spending plan, a procedural vote on the defense appropriations bill is expected on Thursday.

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Spin Zone / Fetterman
« on: September 21, 2023, 07:03:08 AM »

   Why is an individual that has a mental incapacitation sitting as a US Senator?

   Why is the senate altering rules, such as a dress code, for this one senator?   

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Spin Zone / Joe Biden to Announce Executive Level Gun Control Office
« on: September 19, 2023, 11:16:10 PM »
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/09/19/joe-biden-to-announce-executive-level-gun-control-office/

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President Joe Biden will announce the Office of Gun Violence Prevention on Friday and the new office will be coordinated with Mike Bloomberg gun control proponents and others.

According to the Washington Post, “The new office will report up through Stefanie Feldman, the White House staff secretary and a longtime Biden policy aide who has worked on the firearms issue for years.”

Coordination in the office is expected between the “White House, the Community Justice Action Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety.”

Shannon Watts, a Mike Bloomberg affiliate who founded Moms Demand Action, praised the creation of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, saying, “If this announcement is, in fact, the creation of a single point of leadership on gun violence in the administration, it’s a very big deal for the movement.”

She added, “A governmental focal point dedicated to creating a framework for overseeing national policy, research and resources would be more than symbolic — it would be a significant turning point for the movement.”

On August 31, 2023, Breitbart News reported that Biden’s ATF was using executive rule to expand background checks to the point of nearly being universal.

In a press release that accompanied the announcement of the proposed rule, Attorney General Merrick Garland said:

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act was passed by Congress to reduce gun violence, including by expanding the background checks that keep guns out of the hands of criminals. This proposed rule implements Congress’s mandate to expand the definition of who must obtain a license and conduct a background check before selling firearms.

The ATF’s rule will redefine language so that there is not simply a category of Americans buying and selling guns from and to one another — as they have done since 1791 — and a category of Federal Firearms Licensed holders (FFLs) selling guns at retail. Rather, every seller will have to prove he is not trying to make a profit, or he will be required to ensure the purchaser undergoes a background check before taking possession of the firearm.

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Looks like the Regime's DoJ is now targeting Musk.


https://www.wsj.com/tech/justice-department-probe-scrutinizes-elon-musk-perks-at-tesla-going-back-years-3493e321?mod=djemalertNEWS

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Federal prosecutors are scrutinizing personal benefits Tesla TSLA 0.46%increase; green up pointing triangle may have provided Elon Musk since 2017—longer than previously known—as part of a criminal investigation examining issues including a proposed house for the chief executive.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York also has sought information about transactions between Tesla and other entities connected to the billionaire, people familiar with the investigation said. Prosecutors have referenced the involvement of a grand jury.

The new information indicates that federal prosecutors have a broader interest in the actions of Musk and Tesla than was previously known and that they are pursuing potential criminal charges. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that the Justice Department is investigating Tesla’s use of company resources on a secret project that was described internally as a house for Musk.

The house effort was known within the carmaker as “Project 42,” and plans called for an expansive glass building to be constructed near Tesla’s Austin-area factory and headquarters.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a separate civil investigation into the project, the Journal has reported.

On X, the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk has said there isn’t a glass house “built, under construction or planned.” He didn’t address past work or plans; neither he nor his representatives have responded to requests for comment.

Last year, Musk explored building a home for himself on a horse farm across the Colorado River from the factory known as Giga Texas—and met with an architect to brainstorm designs—but “put off building it,” Walter Isaacson wrote in an authorized biography of the billionaire published this month. At one point, according to the book, Musk suggested the design could incorporate a shard of glass emerging from a lake.

The Journal spoke with an array of people about Tesla and the government investigations for this article.

Among the questions prosecutors are examining is whether Tesla properly disclosed perks Musk might have received. Internal or external lawyers typically handle such disclosures. At Tesla, Musk has at times personally guided what information to disclose to shareholders. It couldn’t be learned whether that was the case with any perks that prosecutors are scrutinizing. Tesla has said it generally doesn’t provide perks or other personal benefits to its top executives.

The Manhattan-based federal prosecutors also have sought information about a separate issue, the driving range of Tesla’s electric vehicles, the Journal reported in its article last month.

The Journal reported last October that the SEC and federal prosecutors in Washington and San Francisco were investigating whether Tesla misled consumers and investors about the performance of its advanced driver-assistance system known as Autopilot. The agencies haven’t announced any enforcement action against Tesla in connection with those investigations. Tesla has disclosed in securities filings that it received Justice Department inquiries about Autopilot.

Within Tesla, Project 42 and its purpose were closely guarded secrets.

Tesla lawyers and board members scrutinized the project after employees became concerned about how millions of dollars of large-format glass panels the company had ordered would be used.

Zach Kirkhorn, who was Tesla’s chief financial officer before stepping down last month, was among those who raised concerns internally about the project.

Some employees were told a limited liability company called Peninsula LLC would reimburse Tesla for certain costs. An LLC by that name, formed in April 2022, is managed by Musk adviser Jared Birchall, Texas records show.



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