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Government Corruption
Kash Patel accuses FBI of lying to obtain warrants used to illegally spy on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/06/2026 08:58 || Comments || Link || [1785 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  Perhaps this is the reason Bongino departed the Bureau. Seeing it all from the inside, the illegality was simply more than he could stomach.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/06/2026 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Why the senior leadership of the FBI haven't been fired and tried for crimes is beyond me.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/06/2026 11:18 Comments || Top||

#4  BREAKING: FBI Raids Office of Virginia’s Democrat Senate President Pro Tem in Connection to Major Corruption Probe

Posted by: Frank G || 05/06/2026 11:58 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Obviously racially motivated.
Posted by: Rambler || 05/06/2026 12:18 Comments || Top||

#6  He said as much the other day B on Hannity, fears for his family and himself. I get it, but he was screaming about all the others before he went in, he saw behind the curtain, then came out. Now one could make the argument some of those he was trashing, dirtbags as they were, also feared. The dirtbags are afraid, the ones one thought might be good guys that go in are afraid, the rank and file that no one wants to blame are afraid. So howse the good outcome possible?
Posted by: jefe101 || 05/06/2026 16:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Lying for warrants is it?
How 'bout when the feds have an intel that tells them that drugs are being moved, but tell local cops to follow a truck and 'find' a reason for a traffic stop.
It's called pretexting. and it happens every day.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/06/2026 19:51 Comments || Top||

#8  We knew the FBI lied to obtain the spy warrants back in 2017
Posted by: Bertie Sinatra1883 || 05/06/2026 19:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Obama selling ugly merch shaped liked his presidential center ‐ as architects reveal he pushed for ‘Death Star' design
[NY Post] Former President Barack Obama’s presidential library is hocking pricey merch shaped like the unsightly Chicago tower — as the project’s architects revealed the former commander-in-chief himself was behind the “Death Star” design that’s been widely mocked since construction began.

Ungainly lapel pins that “capture the silhouette” of the Obama Presidential Center are going for $30 in the online store.

“The pin represents the intersection of bold design and global leadership,” the website reads, noting the proceeds go to the Obama Foundation “to inspire, empower and connect people to change their world.”

Each pin is “handcrafted from unfired paper clay,” and is 1.6 inches tall by 1 inch wide — about as oversized as the center itself, which lords 225 feet over Chicago’s Jackson Park in a monolith of concrete and granite.

The $850 million center is slated to open in June after 10 years of development — and criticism of its domineering design — but its online store recently went live in the build-up to the grand opening.

Many weren’t impressed with the pricey pins — with some comparing them to chewing gum, pregnancy tests and blobs of toothpaste.

“It looks like chewed gum or an eraser that a third grader has been mutilating,” one user on X wrote.

“How is that even uglier than the actual building?” said another.

“I thought the building was ugly, then I see the pin,” wrote a third.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/06/2026 08:16 || Comments || Link || [1782 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi Germany. It is characterized by three forms: a stripped neoclassicism, typified by the designs of Albert Speer; a vernacular style that drew inspiration from traditional rural architecture, especially alpine; and a utilitarian style followed for major infrastructure projects and industrial or military complexes. Nazi ideology took a pluralist attitude to architecture; however, Hitler himself believed that form follows function and wrote against "stupid imitations of the past"

Seem familiar?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/06/2026 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  The ugliness is the point. The same as the ritual humiliation of enemies.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/06/2026 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  the “Death Star” design

More like Brendok Fortress.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/06/2026 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Looks more Soviet than anything Albert Speer (Nazi Architect) designed P2K. That style of Speer's is compared to neoclassical buildings, like much of Washington D.C, ex Federal Reserve Building. When I saw that pic, looks like old conceptual drawings of dc, and looks like old black and white photos before all the trees grew in around the whitehouse, mall, smithsonians, and monument area of washington.

I would argue Obamas building is not neoclassical, but is rather soulless garbage. I cherrypicked this, peace:

The Obama Presidential Center, set to open in Chicago's Jackson Park on June 19, 2026, features a modern, "primitivist" design by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects rather than traditional neoclassicism. The campus, focusing on a stone-clad tower and community spaces, aims for a "grounded strength" rather than classical columns.
Posted by: mossomo || 05/06/2026 15:25 Comments || Top||

#5  It's like Corbu, buried robot guy, and Allah had a gayby.

Barack and Nikita once met
For a night they could never forget
In the Marxian dark
Of Chicago's Grant Park.
[cue their cute little Kaaba-kop pet]
Posted by: Phaque Stalin4902 || 05/06/2026 20:10 Comments || Top||


Trump-backed candidates take out GOP incumbents in Indiana, dominate Ohio primary in big night for president
[NY Post] Pence's Poodles return to be private citizens
Posted by: Frank G || 05/06/2026 02:56 || Comments || Link || [1821 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Democratic Ohio AG candidate who vowed to ‘kill’ Trump loses primary bid

Former state lawmaker Elliot Forhan lost the Democratic primary for Ohio attorney general Tuesday, months after causing a firestorm for vowing to execute President Trump.

Columbus attorney John Kulewicz defeated Forhan in a 66%-33% contest, and will face Republican Keith Faber in November.

In a video posted on Facebook in January, Fordham explained that he was “going to kill Donald Trump” by securing a legal conviction against him “resulting in a sentence, duly executed, of capital punishment.”

Kulewicz condemned Forhan’s comments as “disgraceful.”
Posted by: Frank G || 05/06/2026 3:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Deception won?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 05/06/2026 3:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Former state lawmaker Elliot Forhan lost the Democratic primary for Ohio attorney general Tuesday, months after causing a firestorm for vowing to “kill” President Trump by securing a legal conviction against him “resulting in a sentence, duly executed, of capital punishment.”

Florida 12-year-old accused of threatening teacher, saying she will 'shoot up' school

I guess the hyperbole is of different scale.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/06/2026 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  One of the whining losers says "“Revenge & retribution is not a Christian value” seems to have forgotten the fate of Judas.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/06/2026 10:03 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ When asking yourself "What would Jesus do?", remember that knocking over tables and chasing people with whips is an option.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/06/2026 10:17 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 It's Old Testament time, vermin!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 05/06/2026 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Geee... actually doing you fucking job wins for the GOP. It is almost like most of them are RINOs that WANT the left to win.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/06/2026 11:17 Comments || Top||



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