[FoxNews] Biden may issue his first veto after Congress voted to repeal his administration's ESG rule
The Senate on Wednesday passed a disapproval resolution, formally killing a Biden administration Department of Labor rule that encourages private retirement plan fiduciaries to consider environment, social and governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions for over 150 million Americans. Leftist politics instead of fiduciary interest
The measure, which only required a simple majority to pass, passed the threshold in a 50-46 vote. The House of Representatives passed it Tuesday in a 216-204 vote, with only one Democrat voting for the bill.
"President Biden wants to sacrifice seniors’ retirement savings to fund his political agenda," Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana, who led the bill, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. "Both the Senate and the House have now sent powerful, bipartisan rebukes of the Biden ESG agenda. I’m proud to stand up for Americans’ retirement savings to stop this harmful rule."
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Biden’s puppet master has him acting like a second term president with nothing to lose. Joe is too far gone to understand that he is not re-electable other than by massive fraud.
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"Can we pull off 85 million?"
"Sir, we didn't really pull off 81 million cleanly at all. That's 20 million more than Obama over Romney, and for basically a dead guy."
[NYPOST] Penguin Random House is dropping its plans to publish a book by "Dilbert" comic strip creator Scott Adams, marking the latest fallout over the cartoonist’s recent alleged racist rant. Oh no! Not raaaaycism!
Adams’ "Dilbert" comic strip was dropped last week by hundreds of newspapers after the 65-year-old creator advised white people to "get the f—k away" from black people during his online show "Real Coffee with Scott Adams." Not because they're responsible for 55 percent of violent crime while constituting 12 or 13 percent of the population?
Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint, said it is ditching its plans to publish the book titled "Reframe Your Brain," according to a report from the Wall Street Journal late Monday. Don't go trying to relate cause with effect now...
Adams confirmed to the Journal that Portfolio won’t be publishing "Reframe Your Brain." "They've invited me to an auto-da-fe at their offices next Wednesday though."
Portfolio did not immediately respond to request for comment. "We don't talk to racists. You wanta get our headquarters burned down?"
The move to cut ties with Adams comes after he reacted last week to a Rasmussen Poll that said a small majority of black Americans agreed with the statement "It’s OK to be white." Barely half, that is. Slightly less than the number of violent crimes committed by blacks.
"If nearly half of all blacks are not OK with white people ... that’s a hate group," Adams said in the video, which was posted to his YouTube channel last Wednesday. You're not allowed to point to the 600 pound gorilla in the room. He'll rob your delicatessen.
"I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people ... because there is no fixing this." It'll be interesting to see how many readers we have after this little rant. And if Comcast drops our service.
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Help yourself out. Skip the books that are mostly pictures. Especially the ones with non-historical pictures.
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Ref #7: Yes, and move rapidly to numerous follow-on editions. The WOKE crowd and leftest media (redundant i know), have just made this fellow a ton of money.
[NYPOST] First, they came for Roald Dahl. You could just substitute the text of a politically correct story,maybe Heather Has Two Mommies.
Anyone who thought the politically correct rewriting would stop at the irreverent author of such children’s classics as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" was, of course, sadly mistaken. I believe they've already screwed with Mark Twain.
Mostly removed things like Huck Finn from libraries and curricula, more’s the pity. Though the vocabulary wouldn’t suit modern sensibilities, the escaped slaves in Huck Finn, for instance, are heroic and fully rounded in their own right, not NPCs.
The news that hundreds of changes have been made in Dahl’s classics is now followed by word that Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, is getting an emergency rewrite as well. Look out! It's a Chigro!
This is a very bad idea. See what they come up with when they tackle Henry Fielding.
For a start, where does it end? There’s no limiting principle that would prevent the editing of nearly every great writer in the Western canon. I've got an idea. Why don't they start with bad writers?
Homer is a cauldron of toxic masculinity ...the liberal concept (the science is settled!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the men are girls transitioning to boys, or boys transitioning to girls, or either transitioning to sheep... . Chaucer, who has been removed from curricula at various universities, would need extensive re-working — for the offense of relaying 14th-century attitudes toward women, if nothing else. I think nearly everyone reads Chaucer in translation. Those who don't go mad and say things like ""Thus, swyved was this carpenteris wyf, / For al his kepyng and his jalousye, / And Absolon hath kist hir nether ye, / And Nicholas is scalded in the towte. This tale is doon, and God save al the rowte!" Their personal pronouns become "he/hit/heo" and they develop a rash on their genetives.
As for Shakespeare, has anyone read "Othello"? A story about a colored guy? And the Merchant of Venice should also be Bowdlermeat, give or take a pound of flesh or two..
We get the word "bowdlerize" from Thomas Bowdler, who published a version of Shakespeare more appropriate for families in the early 19th century. He meant well, but his name has become synonymous with ham-fisted editing of texts for political or social reasons.
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" To Kill a Mockingbird", which is about the evils of racism, has been removed from a lot of school libraries. It contains bad words. Harper Lee is rolling in her grave.
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The Commie Manifest as paraphrased by the editors of Out Magazine.
Remember, if you don't have a copy, you don't have a copy.
I also envision a future where you may hook up your DVD, or even VCR, to watch The Olde School version of your favorite flick, but because the TV etc. is hooked to the internet it will show The Current Truth, your Blue-Ray DVD copy of Major League will star The Cleveland Guardians and will be three hours long with 20 minutes of original footage, starring Sam Smith as Mild Thing. Tom Berringer will be CGI edited out because The Killjoys think Platoon reminds people of Tropic Thunder.
[NYPOST] A Moslem progressive activist who has allegedly been lying for years about her ethnic identify, claiming to be a woman of color, has resigned from her position as senior inclusion officer of a Philadelphia-based social justice group.
"Raquel Saraswati, who is facing public allegations that she misrepresented her background and past associations, has informed us of her intention to separate from the organization," American Friends Service Committee rep Layne Mullett told USA Today.
Saraswati, 39, who was born Rachel Elizabeth Seidel, was the chief equity, inclusion and culture officer of the Philadelphia-based, progressive Quaker group that fights "violence, inequality and oppression."
[ConservativeTreehouse] Senators Grill Attorney General Merrick Garland About a Weaponized DOJ, Yet Miss the Person Doing the Weaponization
Much has been made today surrounding a Senate hearing where Attorney General Merrick Garland was grilled about a host of issues highlighting the political weaponization of the DOJ. Many ’right side’ articles are noting Garland came across as weak, unsteady and nervous as he attempted to obfuscate specific examples and larger points of criticism.
Unfortunately, almost everyone is missing something. AG Merrick Garland has a control operative behind him. That person is the uber political Deputy AG Lisa Monaco. AG Garland isn’t the one calling the shots on these specific examples being cited, DAG Monaco is. Watch this questioning from the perspective that Monaco, not Garland, is the one calling the shots on the weaponization specifics.
Current Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco was Barack Obama’s former homeland security advisor and former legal counsel in the White House. Monaco was the tip of the spear in using political activism under the guise of ’homeland security’ to target political opposition. That type of political targeting is her specialty. Lisa Monaco is now the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
As a direct result of her skill-set in combination with her current position, it is a guarantee that Deputy AG Lisa Monaco authored the DOJ targeting memorandum that AG Merrick Garland eventually signed and sent to the FBI that became explosive around the issue of the FBI targeting parents at school board meetings. Again, weaponizing internal political targeting under the guise of homeland security concerns is what Monaco is specifically famous for doing.
You might remember, even before becoming President Obama’s key Homeland Security Adviser, Lisa Monaco was the head of the DOJ National Security Division. You might also remember the DOJ-NSD was at the center of the "small group" collaboration between DOJ-NSD and FBI Counterintelligence unit. Remember, it was the DOJ-NSD (via Sally Yates) who would not allow OIG Oversight. (John Carlin quit; Mary McCord quit; David Laufman quit, all to protect themselves from incoming Trump)
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A fascinating read, and it reverberates with the reality that we can see. The Puppet Show is Obama 3.0, just look t th major players the article cites:
"The overarching Lawfare framework, the issues which are being cited by the Senate today, was created by President Obama’s former White House Legal Counsel and current U.S. Asst Attorney General Lisa Monaco. DAG Lisa Monaco is also the connection between the DOJ targeting efforts of the J6 members, and the bridge to Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Just as Andrew Weissmann was really the control operative behind Robert Mueller, so too is Lisa Monaco the control operative behind AG Merrick Garland.
Lisa Monaco is running the Dept of Justice.
Victoria Nuland is running the State Dept (Ukraine)
Avril Haines is running the Intelligence Community.
Samantha Power is running USAID.
Mary McCord is running the Jack Smith Special Counsel operation….
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Ref #1: The term "control operative" or 'handler' is very appropriate. It becomes readily apparent that the fellow talking is NOT the one doing the planning or orchestrating. They have no ability to dive beneath the approved talking points or script. Their frustration is palpable. One could almost feel sorry for them in a Nuremburg Trial sort of way.
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Metaphoric summary - Garland is wearing a red shirt and has been beamed down to the planet surface. His remains will be transferred to an affiliated university where they will feign to teach a boring and worthless curriculum. Monaco is wearing a blue shirt and will return to the ship to control advise Garland’s replacement.
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] In a Congress full of morons, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) certainly fits right in. Actually, I think he pulls the curve down.
Recall Cohen is the same genius who deemed it a good idea to bring a bucket of KFC to a House Judiciary Committee hearing back in May 2019 to mock then-Attorney General William Barr for not showing up. I fail to see the connection, but I only have a three digit IQ.
Cohen only made himself look disgusting. He'll always be disgusting in my teeny tiny mind.
Redstate.com reported that during Tuesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Cohen denigrated Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and other conservative justices by mocking the fact our rights come from God. So does free will. So does stupidity.
“I just wondered when God decided to give women the right to vote and why God didn’t decide to give women the right to vote back in the 1700s. The Constitution was drawn up in the 1780s. I can’t believe God would say “no, women shouldn’t have the right to vote.” Why would God allow men to exercise free will and their own judgment?
And when God decided slavery would be illegal. God was okay with slavery until we have a war where millions of people were killed and then God changed his mind? That’s hard to fathom. I was communing with the ghosts of Priam and Hector the other night -- that's the sort of thing that happens when I don't take my pills -- and we wondered why the gods allowed the clash of opinions. Then Achilles showed up and tried dragging Hector around the walls of Ocean City behind his chariot and it all devolved into a shouting match. So I took a pill and went back to sleep. I dunno how it turned out.
He concludes his rant by reiterating his mistaken views. “God did not decide to keep African-Americans as slaves and then change his mind,” said Cohen. “And I don’t believe God didn’t decide women could not vote until 1918.” I'm pretty sure God allowed Vlad Tepes to wipe out 30,000 Wallachian Saxons. He had a short temper. Vlad, not God.
Here’s a reality check for Cohen: the government is not an arbiter of freedom. They decide what rights they will rip away from you. Like they say, "With God all things are possible." With men any damn thing can happen. There's a qualitative difference.
Then Cohen committed a brutal faceplant after the hearing concluded. Cohen went on Twitter and accidentally endorsed a post calling him a racist for his remarks on blacks. "I ain't no daggone ray-ciss. Dilbert is!"
Just a reminder your tax dollars fund not only Cohen’s salary but also his embarrassing stunts. Even sadder is the fact that voters in Cohen’s congressional district are fine with his performance in office.
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I would recruit a pastor to run against him. Cohen has provided enough footage for a complete add campaign. He seems out of step with Tennessee.
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He seems out of step with Tennessee.
He only needs to be in step with his district.
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Danny DeVito is a sh*tbag. I turn off Jersey Mike's commercials so I don't have to see or hear him.
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where's DeSantis on this???
Governor DeSantis is busy running Florida, dear 746. He hasn’t time for all the nonsensical posturing in Congress that accomplishes nothing except to stroke powerless egos.
[NATIONALREVIEW] During a Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to take responsibility for the Department of Justice’s failure to prosecute protesters who regularly demonstrate outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices, arguing that the federal marshals on the ground have the discretion to arrest the protesters and have chosen not to.
In his first appearance before the 118th Congress, Garland was grilled by Republican senators about the Department of Justice’s failure to enforce a federal law that prohibits protests outside the homes of judges and jurors, who might be intimidated into changing their thinking on pending cases in response to such displays. Since the draft opinion in the Dobbs case, which ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade, was released, protests outside the justices’ suburban homes in Virginia and Maryland have intensified.
"You just said yes, it’s a crime to protest at the home of a judge. Same goes for jurors, by the way, with the intent of influencing a case. But in the wake of the leak of the Dobbs decision, when rioters descended on the homes of six Supreme Court justices, night after night after night, you did nothing," Cruz said to Garland. "The Department [of Justice] did nothing."
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The most important case the rank and file agents have in the history of the FBI and the DOJ is the prosecution and conviction of Garland and Wray who are trying to destroy their agencies via weaponizing the agencies against Dem political opposition.
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Y'all really need to give up hope on impeachment. Not gonna happen and nothing will be done to any of these mutherfuckers ever.
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I'll settle for a Cromwell style disinterment later. Especially if "Dr. Jill" is still alive to be handed a shovel on pay per view.
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Some dodging is as ineffective as doing the Watusi in a bullfighting ring. The important part of this process and an impeachment process is not the conviction- that won’t happen. Indictments, prosecutions and convictions are a possibility after the DOJ is cleaned out like the Augean Stables.
Any current hearings are more like a hostage taking for anyone not on their side. They are forcing the Dems to defend Garland’s cellophane rationalizations. There are 23 Dem Senate seats at issue in 2024. Will the Dems risk Senate seats to defend Buttigieg, Mayorkas, Wray or Garland? Will Biden’s puppet master pull the plug on some of these guys? It is hard to tell, but giving them a pass is a bad plan. The time for us to turtle is long past. If you see cordiality from a Republican to the traitors that is a RINO alarm.
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[NYPOST] Democratic reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway... blamed racism and her gender for her landslide defeat in her re-election bid, as Chicagoans weary of the rising crime on her watch celebrated her fall from "political rock star to rock bottom."
"I’m a black woman in America. Of course," she replied when asked by a news hound if she had been treated unfairly.
But she called being Chicago’s mayor "the honor of a lifetime."
"Regardless of tonight’s outcome, we fought the right fights and we put this city on a better path," Lightfoot said, as she urged her fellow mayors around the US not to fear being bold.
Amid heavy criticism for the crime wave, homelessness and other troubles plaguing the city, the mayor had also injected race into the run-up to the election.
"I am a black woman — let’s not forget," Lightfoot, 60, told the New Yorker in a piece that ran Saturday. "Certain folks, frankly, don’t support us in leadership roles."
The Chicago Tribune called her loss a "political embarrassment" and argued that crime "skyrocketed" on her watch.
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The head of the city police, I can see. Mayor gets to make that appointment.
What does an assistant US Attorney have to hide?
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She must have been white and male when first elected.
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blamed racism and her gender for her landslide defeat
Maybe people are beginning to realize that if one does his or her job well, one doesn't need to hide behind discrimination veils to defend one's work results.
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/\ You mean like Jackie Robinson, Dr. Ben Carson, Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas, the late SF LTC Earl Woods (father of Tiger Woods), Alveda King, the late Herman Cain, Congressman Tim Scott, Allen West ?
"They stole it from us!!" wailed Ms. Lightfoot. "Nasty, tricksy little hobbitses!!"
The campaign watched the disastrous results come in from a dimly lit sushi restaurant, where the enraged Ms. Lightfoot gorged herself on juicy-sweet raw fish. "Gone!! It's gone, precious!!" cried Ms. Lightfoot to supporters. "Filthy, sneaky hobbitses!! Wicked, tricky, false! Curse them! CURSE THEM!!!"
Long considered the electoral frontrunner, Ms. Lightfoot saw her lead evaporate as supporters became steadily more concerned about being murdered. "I just don't want to die," said local woman Brandi Buckingham. "I can look past a lot with Lori Lightfoot - the eyes, how she walks on all fours, all of it. I just can't look past the whole murder thing. I know she'll take the loss hard, but I really hope she finds a new path forward."
At publishing time, aides for the two campaigns heading to a runoff reported the strange sense that some sort of creature was following them.
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War Drums Johnny McSchssssssstain liked to talk about hobbitssssssssssch too.
Story in there somewhere...
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Live in the NW suburbs. Used to look for reasons to overnight downtown- concerts, plays etc and would spend around $500 each visit on tickets, dinner and breakfast and hotel. Averaged 3-4 visits a year.
Since she came into office we have been downtown ONCE and it was in the morning for a Prince exhibition. No overnight stay. When “Yutes” started carjacking on Tuesday mornings in front of the old Sears Tower, we were advised by a CFD paramedic to not go downtown anymore.
Nothing to do with your gender or race Bettlejuice… you just suck at your job.
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Stayed at the Palmer House and saw the Merchandise Mart in its heyday. Haven't been back since. Have no plans to go there.
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Here is a thoughtful article on the 3 key issues Chicago will need to embrace to reverse course. Before you can go North you must stop going South… probably won’t see it in my lifetime.
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The crime was getting into the nice places. The numbers don't really matter as long as you can keep the criming confined to certain areas. When the moneyed classes are getting carjacked, there is a problem.
[NYPOST] David Soares is district attorney of Albany County, NY — where politics is paramount, where facts seldom matter, and where apostasy isn’t tolerated.
No surprise, then, that Democrat Soares — an eloquent contrarian — is on the outs in the Democrat-dominated capital city.
Soares is black, which historically wasn’t an asset in his county’s Irish-Catholic, machine-dominated political environment.
He was elected DA in 2005 with the backing of the noxious disruptor George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... — much to the dismay of local safe-streets advocates.
But Soares takes his oath of office seriously. He most certainly is no Alvin Bragg — a Soros acolyte so caught up in hard-left, racialized ideology that he might just as well be the local public defender.
Indeed, Soares was among the first to warn against the now-notorious criminal justice "reforms" in 2019.
It seemed obvious then that easing up on violent mostly peaceful criminals would generate more violent mostly peaceful crime — but it took bravery to say so, and Soares appears to have courage in abundance.
He’s now demanding reforms of the "reforms," and his heresy — he’s a black, progressive Democrat arguing persuasively that innocent black New Yorkers are the principal victims of the 2019 changes — has been noted. Especially by the black progressive Democrats now running the state Legislature, who apparently have had enough of his impudence.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Deserves dignity? What does that have to do with fully male adult men in dresses raping their female fellow prisoners?
AG Merrick Garland testified before Senate Judiciary about Department of Justice oversight
Sen. Lindsey Graham asked about treatment of transgender prisoners
Of course he did
Sen. Charles Grassley sought assurances on Hunter Biden probe
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I'm not sure why we bother having prisoners. 12 gauge therapy is a fully proven cure and deterrent to committing further crime, especially when delivered via a 4 man squad armed with AA-12's with 20 round drums. Be sure to offer them their choice between slugs and buck before hand.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the liberal concept (the science is settled!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the 
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] In a Congress full of morons, Rep. 
In his first appearance before the 118th Congress, Garland was grilled by Republican senators about the Department of Justice’s failure to enforce a federal law that prohibits protests outside the homes of judges and jurors, who might be intimidated into changing their thinking on pending cases in response to such displays. Since the draft opinion in the Dobbs case, which ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade, was released, protests outside the justices’ suburban homes in Virginia and Maryland have intensified.
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
