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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Ex-Clinton aide reveals Hillary's appalling secrets
2025-05-20
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …and blames her for 'Schindler's List' atmosphere

A former Clinton administration staffer claimed that Hillary Clinton was so detested during her husband's time in the White House that she was known as a 'Nazi schoolmarm' who made aides run in fear.

Buzz Patterson, the former Air Force Aide to Bill Clinton who carried the 'nuclear football' wherever the president went, took to X to reveal intimate details of the former First Couple.

He said he primarily lived in the White House and was 'always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill', which made him quickly learn that the mood of the day 'depended solely on the presence or absence of Hillary.'

'We used to say that when Hillary was gone, it was a frat party. When she was home, it was Schindler's List,'' Patterson wrote in a scathing X post that has received over five million views.

Patterson served as Clinton's Senior Military Aide from 1996 to 1998, and his role saw him carry the 'Presidential Emergency Satchel' to allow the president to launch a nuclear strike from anywhere in the world.

He said in his X post that the day-to-day work for Clinton varied dramatically based on Hillary's whims, as he scathingly described her as 'evil, vindictive, profane' and 'a b****.'

'Among the military who served in the White House and the professional White House staff, the Clinton administration was infamously known for its lack of professionalism and courtesy, though few ever spoke about it,' he wrote.

'But when it came to rudeness, it was Hillary Clinton who was the most feared person in the administration. She set the tone.'

Patterson, an outspoken Donald Trump supporter, said he was warned from the get-go that Hillary Clinton was the most daunting figure in the White House, not her president husband.

'When I first arrived to work in the White House, my predecessor warned me: 'You can get away with pissing off Bill but if you make her mad, she’ll rip your heart out,'' he wrote.

'I heeded those words. I did make him mad a few times, but I never really pissed her off. I knew the ramifications.'

In a response to an X user asking what he did that 'pissed off' Clinton, Patterson said he once didn't let him go to a restaurant when he was hungry because the Secret Service hadn't swept it.

He said while these small issues could be brushed over by Bill, Patterson 'realized there were different rules for Hillary.'

'She instructed the senior staff, including me, that she didn’t want to be forced to encounter us,' he said, adding that staff were seen scrambling to avoid her 'no matter their position in the building.'

'Many a time, I’d see mature, professional adults, working in the most important building in the world, scurrying into office doorways to escape Hillary’s line of sight,' he wrote.

'She was the Nazi schoolmarm and the rest of us were expected to hide as though we were kids in trouble.'

Patterson served over 20 years in the Air Force and was deployed on tours to regions including Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda and Somalia.

But he said reverence for military service was scant in the Clinton White House, and recalled a time ahead of the 1996 election when Hillary 'attempted to ban military uniforms in the White House.'

'She was trying to craft the narrative that the military was not a priority in the Clinton administration,' he wrote.

'As a military aide, carrying the football, and working closely with the Secret Service, I objected to that. It simply wasn’t a matter of her political agenda; it was national security.

'If the balloon went up, the Secret Service would need to find me as quickly as possible. Seconds matter. Finding the aide in military uniform made complete sense. Besides, what commander in chief wouldn’t want to advertise his leadership and command?'

Patterson said Hillary 'finally relented because the Secret Service weighed in', but said the incident was a telling moment for his understanding of how the White House worked under the Clintons.

'The Clintons are corrupt beyond words,' he concluded the scathing X post.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Donald Trump shares shocking theory about Clinton 'assassinations'
2025-05-19
Shitposting, amirite? Troll level: whatever.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Donald Trump has shared a shocking conspiracy theory linking Bill and Hillary Clinton to a series of high-profile deaths.

Trump shared an explosive video on his Truth Social account on Saturday accusing the powerful political couple of eliminating several enemies and potential threats over the decades.

Titled 'THE VIDEO HILLARY CLINTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE', the footage attempts to connect the former First Lady and her husband President Bill Clinton, to a string of deaths including those of John F. Kennedy Jr., DNC staffer Seth Rich, and former White House lawyer Vince Foster.

Trump didn't offer any comment of his own to accompany the bizarre post.

The controversial footage pushes the 'Clinton Body Bags' conspiracy theory that has circulated since the 1990s.

The video shockingly claims that Hillary Clinton was somehow involved in JFK Jr.'s fatal 1999 plane crash because he was allegedly a 'frontrunner' for the New York Senate seat she would later win.

‘Remember John F Kennedy Jr? He was declared the front runner for the New York Senate seat back in 1999 days later, his plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, and his rival Hillary Clinton was elected senator,’ the video begins.
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Home Front: Politix
FBI’s Kash Patel and Dan Bongino hit the talk circuit to explain everything
2025-05-19
FBI's top boss Kash Patel says bureau ran cover for Hillary but it all ends under Trump
[FoxNews] Kash Patel claims former FBI leadership also 'bastardized the FISA process' and hid documentation in Crossfire Hurricane investigation

FBI Director Kash Patel hinted at a "wave of transparency" on the horizon as the agency struggles to rebuild public trust, especially in the wake of longstanding controversy over alleged politicization and selective prosecution.

Sitting alongside FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino for a "Sunday Morning Futures" exclusive interview, Patel pointed to the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation as an example of political bias and institutional failure. He claimed senior officials within the Department of Justice "hijacked" their constitutional responsibilities by selectively deciding which cases to pursue.

"You asked in the beginning how the FBI was weaponized," he said to host Maria Bartiromo. "Well, the FBI hijacked the constitutional responsibility of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General, and James Comey and others specifically decided what cases to prosecute and not prosecute. Don't believe me? Go to the videotape in the Hillary Clinton investigation."

"We don't decide prosecutions, and neither does any agent or intel analyst. We have great partners under Attorney General [Pam] Bondi. We work with them and discuss the matter with them, but the prosecutorial decision is with them," he said.

Patel said that new agency leadership has uncovered additional details regarding the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia and are working with Congress to put out information surrounding the episode.

"That's how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and lie to the American public, they withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren't supposed to look," Patel said.

"It's a good thing we're here now to clean it up, and you're about to see a wave of transparency… Just give us about a week or two."

FBI Director Patel Says Transparency on Russia Collusion Claim in 'a Week or Two' ‐ 'The Biggest D.C. Deception Game We Have Ever Seen'
[Breitbart] During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” FBI Director Kash Patel discussed the 2017 claim that President Donald Trump’s first presidential election win resulted from Russian collusion.

Despite the statute of limitations having expired on prosecuting any criminality, Patel told host Maria Bartiromo to expect a “wave of transparency” in a week or two.

Partial transcript as follows:

BARTIROMO: I watched it with you and Devin Nunes, when you were truth-tellers on all of this, and you were as well, Dan, throughout the Russia collusion story and the rest.

PATEL: Look, I can speak to the folks that were in our seats, our predecessors, and they intentionally failed the American public by putting on the biggest D.C. deception game we have ever seen. They said the FBI was the most storied institution for law enforcement, and it was. And it will be again very soon.

But when the likes of Comey and McCabe and Strzok and company came in here with the James Bakers of the world and intentionally lied to a federal court, only to rig a presidential election by lying to the American public and using taxpayer dollars, likely illegally, to fund this entire operation, and then withholds sculptor information from a federal court that I used to appear before to manhunt terrorists, that’s what broke the FBI.

And then, when they were caught, they lied about it. And you and a few others like Dan and others were brave enough to cover it six, seven, eight years ago. And we’re still talking about it today, because, as Congress is working rigorously with us, the Crossfire Hurricane documents are coming fast and hard. And they’re being sent there unredacted, so we can have full accountability.

And that’s how you restore what the — the trust that was lost to the American public when it comes to the FBI.

BARTIROMO: Yes, but, come on, Director. With all due respect, we have been talking about this for a long time, and I have been demanding accountability for many, many years.

One of the — you mentioned Comey, Strzok and the rest. They have got TV shows. They have got media platforms. They’re fine. There’s been no accountability.

PATEL: Well, look, it’s a fair criticism. But what I will tell people is, we weren’t here in the FBI in the last five years, when we had statute of limitations that were still in play, where we could have investigated criminal conduct. Most of these statute of limitations are 5 years old.

And we will investigate criminal conduct where we find a righteous case to do so and the law and the facts allow us to. But a lot of it, we’re precluded from. So we will take the criticism, and it’s rightfully so, that could we have done more in the past? Sure, people before us could have.

But what we can do now is continue to put out the documents and the information that these people withheld from the American public. And I’m just telling you, right now, as much as we know about Crossfire Hurricane, he and I just found out more last week. And we’re continuing to work with Congress to put those documents out.

That’s how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and lie to the American public. They withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren’t supposed to look. And it’s a good thing we’re here now to clean it up, and you’re about to see a wave of transparency.

BARTIROMO: What do you mean?

PATEL: Just give us about a week or two.


Two from Besoeker:
Bartiromo to FBI Director Patel: Why Don't We Have More Info On Trump Assassination Attempts? (video)
[Real Clear Politics] FOX News host Maria Bartiromo asked FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino when we will learn more about the assassination attempts against President Trump last summer during an interview on "Sunday Morning Futures."
Worth the time to watch.

‘We're Gonna Ruin Your Summer': Dan Bongino Warns Americans Not To ‘Buy Movie Tickets' In Unhinged Rant About FBI (video)
[MSN-Maria Sara Bartiromo] Former podcaster and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino warned Americans not to buy movie tickets, and that he will 'ruin their summer' during an interview this morning.
“We’re going to ruin your summer …if you’re a bad guy.” That’s a malevolently bad headline. Interview with FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Dir Dan Bongino. They looked at the data to see where the problems are worst — Memphis,TN per capita murder capitol, human trafficking in Ohio because of the highways, domestic inner city gangs metastasized as well as the Latin American narco gangs — and will be concentrating on the basics to make a difference. More impressive hires by President Trump — this is an A Team bringing their A game.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
US military would be unleashed on enemy drones on the homeland if bipartisan bill passes
2025-05-16
[FoxNews] Dozens of drones that traipsed over Langley Air Force base in late 2023 revealed an astonishing oversight: Military officials did not believe they had the authority to shoot down the unmanned vehicles over the U.S. homeland.

A new bipartisan bill, known as the COUNTER Act, seeks to rectify that, offering more bases the opportunity to become a "covered facility," or one that has the authority to shoot down drones that encroach on their airspace.

The new bill has broad bipartisan and bicameral support, giving it a greater chance of becoming law. It’s led by Armed Services Committee members Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Kirsten Gillibrand

...Machine non-entity selected to become the successor to Hillary Clinton as Senatrix-for-Life from Noo Yawk. She ran for the Dem presidential nomination in 2020. She has no observable principles, will apparently say anything to anyone, and seemingly lacks any personality of her own....

, D-N.Y., in the Senate, and companion legislation is being introduced by August Pfluger, R-Texas, and Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., in the House.

Currently, only half of the 360 domestic U.S. bases are considered "covered facilities" that are allowed to engage with unidentified drones. The legislation expands the narrow definition of a covered facility under current statute to allow all military facilities that have a well-defined perimeter to apply for approval that allows them to engage with drones.
Shooting down Chinese drones? Sounds like fun.
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Kirsten Gillibrand 01/09/2024 Nancy Pelosi's huge portfolio gains again make the case for banning stock-trading in Congress


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August Pfluger 04/04/2024 DHS Chief Mayorkas Pressed to Answer How Terrorists Were Reportedly Freed into U.S.

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Chrissy Houlahan 06/16/2024 House passes resolution to automatically enroll men aged 18-26 in military draft
Chrissy Houlahan 06/13/2022 Pa. Democrat Congresswoman Goes Full Nazi, Says GOP Must Be ‘Cleansed'
Chrissy Houlahan 01/25/2022 Amazon, Facebook Spend Millions Lobbying Congress for More Legal Immigration, Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

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Home Front: Politix
Buttigieg says 'right now I'm not running for anything' during Iowa stop
2025-05-14
[FoxNews] Pete Buttigieg, under attack from Trump over his job as Biden's transportation secretary, says now is not the time to 'point fingers or blame other people'.
"Especially me"
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Pete Buttigieg 03/26/2025 Inside the new fifth column-Meet the CAIR-Linked Group That Aims To Place Muslim Americans in Federal Jobs
Pete Buttigieg 02/07/2025 DOT Sec. Sean Duffy Roasts Hillary Clinton: ‘DOGE Is Uncovering Your Family's Obscene Grifting Via USAID'

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Science & Technology
Transportation Sect’y Duffy: Newark Incident Could Happen Elsewhere, ATC Rebuild Will Take 3-4 Years, Hope to Fix Newark Lines This Summer
2025-05-07
[Breitbart] During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that the incident at Newark’s airport “could happen in other places around the infrastructure. So, we are going to build a brand new air traffic control system, that’s going to take anywhere from three to four years.” But they’re also working on fixing the lines in the Newark area “to make sure we can stand up the telecom to make sure it never goes down again. And so, this takes a little bit of time. I was told it’d be eight months on the new fiber side of the telecom. I think we can get it to this summer.”

Duffy said, “We saw what happened in Newark. That could happen in other places around the infrastructure. So, we are going to build a brand new air traffic control system, that’s going to take anywhere from three to four years. But, to your question, in the Philly TRACON, which controls Newark, we’re already up there. We had a primary line that went down, and the secondary line, the redundant line, it didn’t stand up. So, we’re working on fixing that and making sure both lines, the primary and the redundant line, are working. But at the same time, we’re laying new fiber in the Philly TRACON to make sure we can stand up the telecom to make sure it never goes down again. And so, this takes a little bit of time. I was told it’d be eight months on the new fiber side of the telecom. I think we can get it to this summer. And, again, we’re going to deal with what’s happening by trying to stand up more controllers in the Philly TRACON. We’re going to get airlines together to talk about how they can reduce capacity at Newark.”

He added that a complete rebuild of the air traffic control system is also dependent on congressional money, and “We’re going to ask the Congress for all the money up front. I’ll go back and testify. They can do oversight with me. But we’re going to get the money, and, again, build — we’re going to get new radars, new radios, sensors on tarmacs, new infrastructure around telecom, going from copper to fiber, all the things that make an air traffic control system great, we’re actually going to implement here, and the space is going to be safer. But, also, Greta, more planes are flying in the air. So, we can deploy some technology that can bring us more efficiency in the airspace, which is critical on the delay front. And, again, most people, they don’t want to know who the FAA administrator is. They don’t want to know who the DOT secretary is, because everything runs well. But when you have these kind of failures, we’ve got to come out and be very clear about what’s happened in the past and where Donald Trump and Sean Duffy are going to take us in the future with the help of the Congress. And by the way, it’s going to be bipartisan. Everyone agrees we have to do this.”
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Home Front: Politix
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Cleans House: Fires All Pentagon Advisory Committees, Including Seat Held by Obama Crony Susan Rice
2025-04-26
[GatewayPundit] Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has formally terminated the service of every member sitting on the Department of Defense’s advisory committees.

Based on the information available on the website as of Thursday, the now-defunct panels included several well-known Democrats and Bush-era Republicans.

  • Janine Davidson (Chair) – Former Under Secretary of the Navy under Obama. A staunch Democrat and longtime proponent of Obama-era military reforms, now steering Pentagon policy advice.

  • Michèle Flournoy – Held major Pentagon roles under Clinton and Obama; often discussed as a potential Secretary of Defense under Hillary Clinton or Biden.

  • Colin Kahl – National Security Advisor to then-VP Biden, later Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under Biden. Key Biden ally and architect of many failed Middle East strategies during the Obama years.

  • Susan Rice – National Security Advisor under Obama; Domestic Policy Advisor under Biden. Central to Obama’s foreign policy blunders and later helped craft Biden’s radical domestic agenda.

  • Dana Shell Smith – Career diplomat; served as U.S. Ambassador to Qatar under Obama.

  • Eric Edelman – Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under George W. Bush; strong neoconservative background.

  • Jon Huntsman Jr. – Served under George W. Bush (Ambassador to Singapore) and Obama (Ambassador to China); briefly served under Trump (Ambassador to Russia).

  • Kori Schake – Held roles under Bush; associated with AEI and other think tanks; known for hawkish, internationalist views.
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Government Corruption
Convicted FBI lawyer spared from prison by Boasberg far more involved in Russia probe than known
2025-04-18
Long and detailed. A taste:
[JustTheNews] The judge who has emerged as a top foe of Trump's deportation efforts previously let a well-known Trump-Russia collusion hoax proponent off the hook. But newly-declassified Crossfire Hurricane records show the FBI's Kevin Clinesmith was deeply involved in in the bogus Russiagate saga.

Convicted FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith — whom Judge James Boasberg gave a slap on the wrist for his crimes years before becoming a public foe of President Donald Trump’s deportation policies — was more deeply involved in the deeply flawed Crossfire Hurricane investigation than previously known.

Clinesmith, who worked on both the FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation and on the Trump-Russia collusion inquiry, pleaded guilty to falsifying a document during the bureau’s efforts to renew FISA authority to wiretap Carter Page, who was an adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign.

Newly-declassified details about Clinesmith’s involvement include a wide swath of information about his role in the case. He was a key go-to for former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok throughout the debunked collusion saga and a main driver in obtaining a FISA warrant against Page based on the infamous Steele dossier.

Clinesmith also granted his seal of approval on a document describing the FBI’s pretextual briefing of then-candidate Trump, was deeply involved in the investigation into retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, played a role in going after former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, and more. He also helped the FBI push its “Cross Wind” investigation, which Just the News can confirm related to the targeting of security expert Walid Phares, which resulted in no accusations of wrongdoing and no charges.

KNEE-DEEP IN THE MUD
Clinesmith confessed in August 2020 that he had manipulated a CIA email in 2017 to state that Carter Page was “not a source” for the CIA when that agency had actually told the bureau on multiple occasions that Page was in fact an “operational contact” for the CIA.

Boasberg, the federal judge who is blocking Trump’s efforts to deport Venezuelan gang members, also played a key and controversial role in the aftermath of the Trump-Russia collusion saga as the leader of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The judge, nominated to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by then-President Barack Obama in 2011, is currently engaged in an all-out legal battle with the Trump Justice Department.

But in his role as the head of the FISA Court he made a number of divisive decisions, including a slap on the wrist for a member of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team, the appointment of officials who had defended the FBI’s actions during the Russiagate saga, the renewal of the FBI’s FISA powers, and more.

BOASBERG DEFENDS CLINESMITH
Boasberg ruled this week that “probable cause exists” to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt after they violated his orders by continuing deportation flights. But his ruling follows the Supreme Court holding that Boasberg's court was in an improper venue for the case altogether.

Boasberg, in his role as a federal judge, denied the Justice Department’s efforts to seek up to six months behind bars for Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty in Special Counsel John Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation — instead giving Clinesmith a year of probation, 400 hours of community service, and no fine.
The remaining subheds:
Collaboration on the Carter Page FISA
Clinesmith altered docs, hid information from FISA court
Sign off on doc detailing pretextual briefing of Trump
Clinesmith Targets Flynn
Leaks and unmasking
"Out to get Trump"
Steele Dossier dissemination
Clinesmith and Papadopoulos
Strzok establishes a pattern of untruths
“Cross Wind”
Clinesmith: "Viva le resistance"
Comey arranges leaks to media
The Crossfire docs a profitable venture
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Democrats Are Now The 'People's Revolutionary Party' — Issues & Insights
2025-04-17
[ISSUESINSIGHTS] In February, a bunch of centrist Democratic officials gathered in ritzy Potomac, Maryland, to complain that the party had become too radicalized and needed to ''get out of elite circles and into real communities (e.g., tailgates, gun shows, local restaurants, churches).''

The response of rank-and-file Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
? ''Go left, young gender-fluid person!!''

This week, RealClearPolitics reported on a poll from Survey USA that found 74% of Democrats either want the party to be even more ''progressive'' (50%) or like it just the way it is (24%). Fewer than one in five wants the party to move toward the center.

Yes, some are trying to keep sanity alive.

Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
— who desperately wants to be president — has been pretending to be a moderate by inviting conservatives onto his podcast and saying things such as ''the Democratic brand is toxic.''

Former 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 Rahm Emanuel is warning Democrats that they ''can't be a party that believes in equity and allows two-thirds of your kids who can't read.'' He's also said that Democrats have ''sunk'' their own party.

Democratic New Mexico District Attorney Sam Bregman is running for governor against the ''radical Left.''

But this isn't the 1990s, and there is no interest or appetite among Democrats in reviving Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
's ''New Democrat'' corpse.

The party is now irretrievably in the grip of those toxic, party-sinking radical leftists. In the Survey USA poll, there wasn't a single demographic group where even a plurality felt the party should be more moderate.

More than half of young, urban, college-educated, well-paid whites — the very people who make up the ''elite circles'' and will never venture into ''real communities'' — want the party to move further to the left.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat......
avowed socialists Bernie Sanders

...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
and Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore
are drawing big crowds and generating loads of fawning press for their ''fight the oligarchy
... derived from the Greek words oligos, a few and the verb archo, to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you...
'' tour.
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Government Corruption
MoveOn.....NO!
2025-04-15
[News With Views] Americans have become accustomed to "going-along to get-along," but there are some things that we just can’t move-on from without confronting the issue and fixing what was broken. In a nation focused on precedence rather than the rule of law, we cannot allow bad precedence to stand.

Our Founders knew this day would come... "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed;" — Declaration of Independence, 1776

The MoveOn.org domain name was registered on September 18, 1998, following the September 11, 1998 release of the Independent Counsel Starr Report. The organization founders were computer entrepreneurs Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the married co-founders of Berkeley Systems, an entertainment software company based in San Francisco.

It was originally created to oppose the impeachment of then President Bill Clinton, who had been caught sexually abusing a young intern in a room off the Oval Office, lying about it to the American people, and under oath. Clinton was indeed impeached by the House and even convicted by the Senate. But he was not removed from office due to a massive grassroots campaign led by the DNC and folks at MoveOn.org.

Today, that operation is a full-blown extreme left community organizing operation under the new domain front.moveon.org. Along with the DNC ACT BLUE international money laundering scheme, BLM, ANTIFA, the WEF, WHO, Davos Group and UN, and hundreds of Soros NGOs and "non-profits" scattered all over the globe, this is the Obama "community organizing" machine responsible for the ongoing efforts to "fundamentally transform America" into a 3rd world Marxist toilet. It’s also the money machine for every anti-American protest and riot on American soil.

Today, treason from within is as common as the sunrise and despite a lot of political chatter about it, nobody ever seems to face treason charges. It all emanates from these organizations and is deeply embedded throughout the U.S. government, all in the democrat party and some in the republican party, often referred to as "the deep state" or "shadow government" actually running things in America.

Americans need to face the reality that our country is under siege, swamped with immoral and unethical anti-American Marxists and dumbed-down fruitcakes, hanging from the proverbial cliff by our fingernails, and the fight would already be over had we not stopped another stolen election last November.

To be clear, the newly minted Trump administration should have already frozen all related funds pending the outcome of criminal investigations into the anti-American actions of these groups. I don’t know why they haven’t, but it likely has something to do with the following...

At the epicenter of it all in the USA is one Barack Hussein Obama, the American leader of the "cultural revolution" not unlike the revolution that destroyed China many years ago. His entire history is one great big fat fraud.

The utter destruction of the USA since 2009 has been massive. Citizens who remember what America was like before can barely recognize the country today, and they fear for their children and grandchildren’s future.

Obama’s unlawful occupation of our Oval Office isn’t just the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people...it is an overt act of treason.
Related:
MoveOn: 2025-04-01 Elon Musk asked, ‘Who is funding and organizing all these [Tesla Takedown] paid protests?’
MoveOn: 2022-09-08 Hillary Clinton's nonprofit funneled $75,000 to far-left defund the police group
MoveOn: 2022-07-31 Soros-Linked Manhattan DA Defends Freeing Teen Who Attacked NYPD Officer
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Outstanding Work, Doctor: How Jill Biden's Lust for Power Saved America
2025-04-15
[Free Beacon] Many have suspected that Dr. Jill Biden played a key role in saving the country by facilitating Donald Trump's long-awaited return to the White House. Many have assumed the former first lady (and acting president of the United States) was possessed of an insatiable lust for power, which drove her to insist that her enfeebled octogenarian husband, Joe Biden, run for reelection. The ill-advised decision nearly destroyed the Democratic Party when Biden's cognitive impairment became impossible to ignore. It forced the party to rally around Kamala Harris, the most incompetent presidential candidate since Hillary Clinton, all but ensuring that Trump would win a second term and usher in the Golden Age of America.

The revelations unearthed in several new books by political journalists—conveniently published after the election—confirm that these suspicions and assumptions were correct.

"[L]et’s be honest, Jill was a thousand percent behind this," a Biden ally told journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, authors of Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. "So, she was pushing it. The staff was all pushing it. At the end of the day, I don’t think anyone in that inner circle was presenting the president any contrary advice that this thing is not going to be easy or maybe this is not the best thing for the Democratic Party."

Allen and Parnes note that many of Joe Biden's longtime aides were also desperate to cling to power, and refused to consider advising the president to retire after a single term. "Nobody walks away from this," senior adviser Mike Donilon reportedly told a prominent Democrat. "No one walks away from the house, the plane, the helicopter." This burning desire to retain the perks of the White House, the authors explain, was "doubly true for the first lady." Dr. Jill had enjoyed them for nearly a decade, and "the trappings of the most elite levels of Washington power had grown on her." The reporting confirms what presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said about Jill Biden in February 2024: "She likes power. She wants to stay. She wants some sense of revenge."
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Emily Ratajkowski accuses Blue Origin of ''destroying the planet'' after launching Katy Perry, Gayle King and more into space
2025-04-15
[PAGESIX] Emily Ratajkowski has joined the growing list of celebrities calling out Blue Origin for sending a star-studded, all-female crew up to space for a recreational trip on Monday.

''That space mission this morning? That's end time s—t. Like, this is beyond parody,'' the model told her TikTok followers in a selfie-style video filmed in the car.

''That you care about Mother Earth and it's about Mother Earth, and you're going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that's singlehandedly destroying the planet?''
Facebook is doing that? Dang!
Ratajkowski, 33, urged her fans to ''look at the state of the world'' and ''think about how many resources went into putting these women into space,'' wondering, ''For what? What was the marketing there?''
"They didn't invite meeee!"
She concluded her rant by saying how ''disgusted'' she is by the whole thing.

Blue Origin is owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, whose fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, was joined by pop star Katy Perry, broadcast journalist Gayle King, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn for the roughly 10-minute voyage.

The ladies made the trip in full glam and custom blue uniforms designed by Sanchez.
Related:
Blue Origin: 2025-03-01 Bezos' Washington Post overhaul reveals the weakness of woke
Blue Origin: 2024-11-13 Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home
Blue Origin: 2024-10-31 The International Space Station should be evacuated IMMEDIATELY
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TikTok: 2025-04-12 China raises tariffs on US goods to 125% as it slams Trump for 'defying basic economic laws and common sense'
TikTok: 2025-04-09 Florida men charged in 'truly heinous' global child porn ring involving over 1M files
TikTok: 2025-04-07 895! How Ovechkin beat Gretzky and made him remember his Russian roots
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Jeff Bezos 04/13/2025 Protesters rally in Times Square calling for release of anti-Israel Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil
Jeff Bezos 04/12/2025 CAIR denounces ruling to deport Mahmoud Khalil
Jeff Bezos 04/11/2025 ''West Wing'' star rages against Jeff Bezos, tells him to ''speak up'' against Trump

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Lauren Sanchez 04/01/2019 Bezos Investigation Finds the Saudis Obtained His Private Data

Related:
Katy Perry 11/09/2024 Kamala Harris campaign's election-eve concerts said to cost up to $20M ‐ as staff, vendors fear they won't be paid
Katy Perry 01/01/2024 Knesset extends Israel’s ‘incarceration emergency’ as prisons near capacity
Katy Perry 06/24/2023 FTX sues former Hillary Clinton aide over $700 million in 'misappropriated funds'




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